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Climate Change Weekly # 551 — Time to Adapt and Plan for Weather Events, Climate Change Aside
Opinion -Since its passage, the IRA resulted in billions of dollars being wasted on various green boondoggles. -
Did SCOTUS Just Transform America’s Schools?
Opinion -From the National Review, July 9, 2025: In June, on the final dramatic day of its term, the Supreme Court in the case of Mahmoud v. Taylor affirmed the right of parents in Montgomery County, Md., to opt their children out of public school classes reading “LGBTQ+-inclusive” texts, on grounds that preventing such opt-outs unconstitutionally burdens parents’ […] -
Heartland/Rasmussen Poll: Democrats Hope China Beats America in Trade War, Voters Overwhelmingly Reject Socialism
Opinion -32% of Democratic voters say they “hope” that China “wins the tariff war” with the Trump administration. -
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Trump’s Plan to Address Infertility Could Give Birth to New Problems – Commentary
Publication -Although President Donald Trump’s executive order (EO) on “Expanding Access to In Vitro Fertilization” (IVF) is undoubtedly well-intentioned, it opens the door to numerous ethical and practical problems. Technological Fertility Fix Policymakers should note that IVF is not the only way to address declining fertility. The evident approach to solving a problem is to identify […] -
California Net-Zero Leaders Want to Shutter Its Only Zero-Emissions Electricity-Generating Plant
Opinion -The same policymakers who have achieved the above “low” points for the residents of California are the same ones seeking zero-emission targets for the State, while concurrently attempting to shutter its only zero-emission electricity-generating plant! -
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Republican Medicaid Plan: Yes to Reform, No to Benefit Cuts
Publication -Partisan rhetoric over the federal budget has intensified with Democrat politicians claiming Republicans will cut Medicaid benefits. Illinois Gov. J. B. Pritzker, a Democrat, argued it will be impossible for Republicans to find $880 billion in spending cuts without touching Medicaid. The House budget reconciliation bill instructs the House Energy & Commerce Committee to cut […] -
PRESS RELEASE: President Trump’s Embrace of Coal-powered Energy Is ‘the Right Thing for America’
Opinion -Press Release -‘President Trump bringing back coal is the epitome of making America energy independent and dominant again.’ -
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Government Policies Have Made Americans Anti-Vaxx – Commentary
Publication -By John Droz Jr. on the history of vaccine policy. On March 2, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. issued a “call to action” after the death of a child with measles in Texas. Kennedy urged parents to consult with their physicians about the MMR vaccine, which covers mumps, measles, and rubella, […] -
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President Creates Commission to ‘Make America Healthy Again’
Publication -President Donald Trump issued an executive order (EO) establishing a commission to “Make America Healthy Again.” The February 13 order identifies multiple areas for reform and directs the creation of a panel of agencies to enact research and policy plans. The order directs the government to “aggressively combat the critical health challenges facing our citizens, […] -
Controlling Ways to Generate Electricity Through Subsidies Is a Terrible Plan for the Planet
Opinion -While billions of people in many parts of the world, such as India, China, Egypt, and many countries in Africa, Asia, and the Americas must burn cow dung as fuel, the few in the wealthy countries believe they can control climate change through subsidies. -
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U.S. Supreme Court to Decide Fate of Planned Parenthood Medicaid Funding
Publication -The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether states can block Medicaid eligibility from health care providers who offer abortions, such as Planned Parenthood. The high court agreed on December 18 to hear Kerr v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, in which the regional chapter of Planned Parenthood and an individual plaintiff sued South Carolina Health […] -
Planet Earth’s Natural Resources Are Limited to Its 8 Billion Residents
Opinion -Today, with 8 billion humans on this planet, the few wealthy countries are extracting natural resources at alarming rates, and they are NOT being replenished. -
America Needs to Reestablish Its World-Leading Manifestation of Nuclear-Generated Electricity
Opinion -American ingenuity advanced nuclear technology to a world-class innovation to benefit all. Interestingly, the methods used in the rest of the world are copies of the American innovations. -
Sodom and Gomorrah, California: America Previews the Wages of Arrogance and Incompetence
Opinion -During these past few days, our nation has had a dramatic preview of a community that has entrusted its civic institutions for way too long to arrogant, incompetent ideologues who failed to provide the needed services to protect its citizens. Residents of Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah were punished for their evil ways; voters in the […] -
America Needs a Subzero Blackout Prevention Program
Opinion -Switching from coal to gas has made us vulnerable to cold weather blackouts. We need a program to address and cure this vulnerability. Action at both the State and Federal levels will be needed. New coal-fired power may be part of the answer. -
Stop the ‘Green Hallucinationists’ Plan to Close All 200 Coal Power Plants
Opinion -America continues to subsidize the development of occasionally generated electricity from weather-dependent wind turbines and solar panels to replace coal power plants. -
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Biden’s Short-Term Plan Limit Could Face Lawsuit: Panel
Publication -The “ping-ponging” of rules on short-term limited duration health insurance (STLDI)is wreaking havoc on underwriting in the insurance markets, said panelists in a discussion hosted by the Cato Institute on October 15, 2024. The focus of the discussion was President Biden’s new rule limiting the duration and renewability of STLDI. President-elect Donald Trump or a […] -
New Book Pushes Back on Justin Trudeau’s Net Zero Plan with Facts
Opinion -Press Release -"Energy & Climate at a Glance: Canadian Edition" outlines why Trudeau’s climate plans will cause economic hardship in Canada, and will do nothing measurable to improve the global climate. -
Climate Change Weekly #524: Plants Are Using Much More CO2 Than Climate Models Assume
Opinion -A study in Nature finds plants have been absorbing 31 percent more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than previously assumed and modeled. -
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Man Dies After Mental Health Care Denied on Obamacare Plan
Publication -A man struggling with alcoholism died after trying unsuccessfully for months to find a mental health therapist covered by his Obamacare plan. An NPR/ProPublica report describes in depth the events preceding Ravi Coutinho’s May 2023 death, apparently from an accident involving a relapse into alcohol abuse while alone in his Phoenix apartment. Coutinho’s Ambetter plan, […] -
Research & Commentary: New Report Finds Implementation of New Jersey’s Energy Master Plan Would Cost Garden Staters $40 Billion
Publication -Research and Commentaries -A report released in May by the Garden State Initiative (GSI) finds the goals of New Jersey’s Energy Master Plan (EMP) are unobtainable and unworkable, and would cost New Jerseyans an estimated $40 billion. EMP, issued by executive order in 2020 by Gov. Phil Murphy, commits the Garden State to achieving 100 percent “clean” energy […] -
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Biden-Harris Plan Offer ‘Bribe’ to Medicare Drug Insurers
Publication -The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says it will cost taxpayers more than $25 billion to “paper over” a Medicare drug premium price jump created when the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) shifted the burden of drug price cuts to Part D insurers. The result has been a 22 percent jump in 2025 Medicare Part D premiums […] -
Two Basic Facts Are Driving the Ignorance of America’s Forthcoming Energy Crisis
Opinion -Shockingly, energy policymakers do not understand that electricity and transportation cannot exist without products made from fossil fuels. -
Research & Commentary: New Report Shows Great Lakes States Could See Electricity Generation Shortfalls by 2027 Thanks to “Net Zero” Energy Plans
Publication -Research and Commentaries -A new report from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy details how “net zero” plans are threatening energy reliability for seven states in the Great Lakes region—Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. “Net zero” refers to the balance between the amount of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere and the amount removed from […]
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