Opinion
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South Carolina on Brink of Expanding School Choice Program
Opinion -School Choice Weekly #198 -
Cupcakes, YouTube, and Home Production
Opinion -Home or small-scale production of goods and services is surging in the U.S. Examples include YouTube videos, blogging and self-published books, craft beer, cupcakes, and home schooling. -
Burlington Telecom Has Failed And It’s Time To Sell
Opinion -Burlington Telecom (BT) is a failure and proof that government municipal projects simply don't work. -
How a Teachers Union is Protecting a Violent Antifa Radical
Opinion -Yvette Felarca is the militant Berkeley Unified School District teacher whose mugshot has been appearing in the news a lot lately for her violent behavior at Antifa-led riots. -
Pennsylvania Enacts Right-to-Try Law
Opinion -Pennsylvania residents suffering from terminal illnesses will be allowed to try experimental therapies yet to receive full approval under the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s lengthy review process. -
Supreme Court Accepts Historic Forced-Unionism Case
Opinion -Lawyers representing an Illinois state government employee challenging the constitutionality of deducting union fees from his paycheck will present opening arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS). -
Health Care Reform: Now It’s Our Turn
Opinion -Quarterly Performance Report Fourth Quarter, 2017 -
Lawsuit Challenges Border Patrol Phone Searches
Opinion -Ten American citizens are suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, alleging federal border patrol agents violated their constitutional rights by searching their personal electronic devices without first obtaining search warrants from a judge. -
Yet Another Local Battle In The Media-Left’s War On Oil
Opinion -Because the federal government has so grossly exceeded its Constitution-delimited authorities, we pay way more attention to national politics than the Founding Fathers intended or wanted. -
When Media Becomes Part of the Problem
Opinion -It should not be a surprise that Democrats are using every opportunity possible to criticize President Trump and members of his administration. -
Utah Political Organization Pushes Medicaid Expansion Ballot Question
Opinion -A coalition of political advocacy organizations in Utah is trying to place a ballot question before voters in 2018, asking them to approve expanding Medicaid eligibility in the state. -
State Lawmakers Ready to Follow Up on Amendment Convention Meeting
Opinion -State legislatures returning to work in January include 72 lawmakers from 19 states who attended a September 2017 national planning session authorizing rules and procedures for an upcoming national amendment convention. -
National Right-to-Work Ban Proposed
Opinion -Congressional Democrats are lining up behind two bills in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate to repeal right-to-work (RTW) laws in 28 states and prohibit states from passing such laws. -
Trump Administration Approves Pipeline expansion
Opinion -Federal regulators approved an expansion of Williams Partners’ Transco natural gas pipeline, allowing the Atlantic Sunrise project in Pennsylvania to move forward. -
Michigan House Approves Interstate Medical Licensure Compact
Opinion -The Michigan House of Representatives passed a bill to join an interstate compact to synchronize its medical licensing regulations with those of 22 other states, allowing health care providers licensed in participating states to provide services. -
Temporary Puerto Rico Jones Act Waiver Expires
Opinion -President Donald Trump allowed his ten-day waiver of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920 to expire on October 8, reinstating enforcement of the federal law restricting which maritime vessels are allowed to ship goods over the ocean between U.S. states. -
Heartland Institute CEO Corrects False HuffPost Story
Opinion -The following statement can be attributed to Joseph Bast, CEO of The Heartland Institute. -
David Kelley’s Three Greatest Hits at The Atlas Society
Opinion -Objectivism originated with Ayn Rand, is defined by certain principles, but has its own logic and implications that might even be at odds with some of Rand’s own thoughts. -
Trump Cuts Clean Power Plan, Boosts America’s Prospects
Opinion -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) filed a notice in the Federal Register that it is rescinding former President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan (CPP). -
Bill Banning Local Soda Taxes Gains Popularity in Illinois House
Opinion -A bill under consideration by the Illinois House of Representatives preventing future soda taxes from being enacted by local governments is picking up steam. -
High Court Could Boost School Choice
Opinion -All the available evidence suggests a Supreme Court majority is now poised to deliver a death blow to a 40-year-old precedent that has allowed public-sector unions for decades to pick the pocketbooks of non-members to pay the costs of union bargaining. -
America Is in Dire Need of Mens Rea Reform
Opinion -America is much less the land of the free than it is the land where everything is illegal, where, as John Stossel pointed out in 2012, “No one can know what is legal.” -
Don’t Call Climate Skeptics ‘Deniers,’ Call Us ‘Correct’
Opinion -If it’s totalitarian and unresearched, it’s not a consensus. -
Heartland Weekly: Relearning the Tax Cut Lesson
Opinion -Since President Reagan’s tax reforms of the 1980s, other countries around the world have been cutting their corporate tax rates and other taxes on businesses.
