Opinion
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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. -
Capitalism and the Free Society, Part 1
Opinion -One of the leading ideological punching bags for well over one hundred years has been the ideas, institutions, and impact of “capitalism” on society. -
Endangerment Finding Should be Reviewed and Repealed, says Think Tank
Opinion -Representatives of the Texas Public Policy Foundation met with Environmental Protection Agency staff to show why as a matter of law the agency should reconsider its endangerment finding concerning carbon dioxide. -
Trump Commits $200 Million to Expand STEM Education
Opinion -President Trump signed a memorandum to devote hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to expanding STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) and computer science education in schools across the nation. -
The Market for Electricity is Rigged
Opinion -The preferential dispatch system used by many RTO/ISO grid operators favors wind and solar to the exclusion of critical baseload power from fossil fuel and nuclear power plants. -
Government Allows California Water Project to Move Forward
Opinion -The Trump administration has cleared the way for a controversial project intended to draw water from beneath California’s Mojave Desert and sell it to water providers in Southern California. -
Require Citizen Naturalization Test for Graduation, Organization Urges
Opinion -An initiative to require students across the nation to pass a civics exam in order to graduate from high school is making headway in the states. -
Yet Another Reason Government Shouldn’t Be Involved In Energy
Opinion -There are lots and LOTS of reasons government shouldn’t choose which energy sources We the People use. -
Honor Freedom and Sacrifice on Bill of Rights Day
Opinion -Declining understanding of and respect for the Bill of Rights threatens to bring on the loss of our liberties. -
EPA Ends Obama-era Sue-and-Settle Policies
Opinion -The Environmental Protection Agency is ending a controversial practice known as “sue and settle,” under which the agency cuts deals with environmental groups leading to new regulations outside of the normal regulatory process. -
Academic Journal Withdraws Article on Colonialism
Opinion -With college campuses having been wracked by protests against conservative speakers in the past year, the fight against free speech has taken a new turn with the withdrawal of a column in a scholarly journal upon threats of violence against the editor. -
Rumors About Betsy DeVos’ Resignation Squelched
Opinion -School Choice Weekly #199 -
Cook County Soda Tax Repeal Gives Taxpayers a Halloween Treat
Opinion -As Halloween passes, lawmakers in cities across the country should take a cue from Cook County, Illinois and give taxpayers a treat by ditching burdensome sin taxes, including excise taxes on soda and other sweetened beverages. -
Study of Wisconsin Voter ID Law Is a Study in Errors
Opinion -"Voter deterrence" in Wisconsin is not as sinister as advertised. -
Colorado Judge Pulls Plug on Netflix Tax Lawsuit
Opinion -Lawyers representing Netflix sued the City of Loveland, Colorado, alleging the government was violating state and federal laws by taxing streaming services. A Colorado state judge pulled the plug on the lawsuit just a few days later, after the city withdr -
Can President Trump Revive Coal?
Opinion -EPA Secretary Scott Pruitt recently announced a withdrawal of the Clean Power Plan regulations intended to reduce electric utilities’ greenhouse gas emissions. -
A Merger for a Stronger Future?
Opinion -Troy Bank and Trust and First National Bank of Brundidge recently announced a merger. How do community banks matter for America’s communities? -
Poll: Millennials Strongly Support School Choice
Opinion -A new poll confirms millennials strongly support school choice. -
New College Ranker Claims Others Have Bias Toward Wealthy
Opinion -A new college ranking system reflects increasing complaints about previous listings as being biased toward the wealthy. -
At Communist Centenary, Many Americans Still Believe in Collectivism
Opinion -November 7 marks a century since the founding of one of the most murderous tyrannies in human history. -
Kentucky Government Employees Protest Pension Reform Proposal
Opinion -An organization claiming to represent more than 10,000 current and former Kentucky government employees protested against Gov. Matt Bevin’s pension reform plan on November 1. -
Federal Death Tax Is on House Hit List
Opinion -Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI), Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), and other members of Congress announced the planned phase-out of the federal death tax in the proposed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. -
Court Rules Trump Administration Must Enforce Obama Methane Rules
Opinion -A federal judge ordered the Interior Department to immediately begin enforcing Obama era restrictions on the release of methane emissions from oil and gas exploration and production operations on public lands.