Opinion
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U.N. Admits Paris Climate Agreement Was a Sham
Opinion -Climate Change #268 -
New Book Presents Long History of Criticism of Government Schools
Opinion -Review of Critics of State Education: A Reader, by Aaron Ross Powell (writer), George H. Smith (editor), and Marilyn Moore (editor), Libertarianism.org Press, October 10, 2017, 250 pp.; $12.92 on Amazon.com: ISBN-10: 1944424423, ISBN-13: 978-1944424428 -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to the House Passing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
Opinion -"Today, the House finally did what it promised to do, and the result will be a growing economy, higher wages, and a simpler tax code" - Tim Huelskamp, Ph.D. -
Budget Reconciliation Sets Stage for Tax Reform
Opinion -The U.S. House of Representatives approved a resolution affirming the U.S. Senate’s budget resolution setting federal government spending recommendations for Fiscal Year 2018, allowing Congress to use a legislative procedure known as reconciliation. -
Kentucky Needs Pension Reform
Opinion -Kentucky currently has one of the largest pension funding gaps of any U.S. state. -
Uber-Left Amazon Set To Get Uber-Cronyism – From Republicans
Opinion -We spent nigh the duration of the very awful Barack Obama Administration chronicling in-depth the in-depth cronyism they serially, unilaterally shoveled at the Silicon Valley. -
Because Congress Has Accomplished So Much: A Mixed Martial Arts Hearing
Opinion -Presidential candidate Donald Trump ran for two years on several key legislative components. The big three were Obamacare repeal, tax-cuts-and-code-reform and a monstrous, massive infrastructure bill. -
The New York Times’ Social Media Crackdown Won’t Fix the Media
Opinion -The New York Times announced a new social media policy intended to crack down on the perception of bias among their reporters. -
Forest-thinning Measure Approved by Ag Committee
Opinion -The House Agriculture Committee approved a proposed bill in October loosening environmental regulations for forest-thinning projects on Forest Service lands. -
Unionized Schools Plagued by Chronic Teacher Absences, Study Finds
Opinion -Teachers in traditional public schools are nearly three times as likely as those at charter schools to be chronically absent, a new study reports. -
Antifa Radical Remains Employed by Berkeley, California School District
Opinion -Yvette Felarca, a militant Berkeley United School District (BUSD) teacher whose mugshot has appeared regularly in the news over the course of the last year for her violent behavior at Antifa-led riots, has been breaking numerous rules at her workplace. -
Avalanches of Global Warming Alarmism
Opinion -Throughout the United Nations Climate Change Conference wrapping up in Bonn, Germany this week, the world has been inundated with the usual avalanche of manmade global warming alarmism. -
Trump Improves Transparency by Ending EPA Sue-and-Settle Agreements
Opinion -Poverty remains, by far, the biggest killer of humans, and government-imposed regulations have been proven to create economic costs that make poverty more likely. -
Lawmakers Should Sideline Handouts for Sports Stadiums
Opinion -Sports team owners, and the elected officials who enable their graft, say using taxpayer money to pay for stadium construction is an investment in local economic growth. -
Congress Considers Three Bills Aimed at National Student Data Collection
Opinion -Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act scheduled to be voted on today. -
Student Publishes Comparison of ACT and Classic Learning Test
Opinion -A homeschool student who took both the ACT and the Classic Learning Test (CLT) says ACT disfavors students with no Common Core experience. -
Fossil Fuels Drive Hurricane Monitoring And Relief
Opinion -Fossil fuels are powering disaster relief. Anyone who denies these basic facts is ignorant, lying to themselves, or evil. -
The NFL Flap Exposes Media Ignorance and the Failure of Civic Education
Opinion -The huge dust-up over the protests of the American flag during the presentation of the national anthem by National Football League players has served to dramatize a massive deficiency in civics education in this nation. -
Fracking Rarely Linked to Quakes
Opinion -Hydraulic fracturing is rarely linked to seismic shaking, according to an analysis of earthquakes near “frack jobs,” conducted by Oklahoma state officials. -
Voucher Program Overregulation Homogenizes Schools, Study Finds
Opinion -Overregulating voucher programs reduces diversity of school options, a new study has found. -
States Should Not Wait for Congress to Fix Health Care
Opinion -Congress has failed to pass a replacement of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and Obamacare’s collapse is inevitable. To protect their citizens, state lawmakers should take the lead in passing free-market health care reforms. -
Are US Vehicle Mileage Standards Obsolete?
Opinion -Regulations to reduce fuel consumption and to increase vehicle mileage were born during the oil shock of the 1970s. But within the last decade, the fracking revolution reestablished the United States as the world’s energy superpower. -
Federal Lease Sales Critical to Maintaining America’s Energy Dominance
Opinion -The oil and gas industry has more than demonstrated its ability to operate safely in environmentally sensitive locations. -
Capitalism and the Free Society, Part 2
Opinion -The free enterprise, or capitalist, system has done more to improve the material condition of humanity than any other economic arrangement of human cooperation in all of recorded history.