Opinion
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Wednesday’s Leftist Whine Fest: If You Pay Them, All Greed Is Forgiven
Opinion -Editorial -Wednesday brings us yet another ridiculous Left protest against President Donald Trump and his reasonable, rational, less government agenda. -
Economic Ideas: The Ancient Incas and the Collectivist State
Opinion -Editorial -Examples of government control over social and economic life are as old as recorded history, and they always have features that are universal in their perverse effects regardless of time or place. -
The Purdue-Kaplan Earthquake
Opinion -Editorial -The news that Purdue University, Indiana’s public land-grant university, will buy Kaplan University, an online for-profit school, managed to produce only a small blip in national media attention in April. -
Iowa Bans Use of Eminent Domain for Wind-Energy Transmission Lines
Opinion -environment-climate-news -In a setback for the renewable-energy industry, Iowa ennacted a law barring the use of eminent domain for high-voltage transmission lines carrying wind energy across the state into Illinois. -
Minnesota Dental Therapists Break Records, Barriers
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Dentists are expanding access to health care by hiring midlevel dental providers legalized in just a few states. -
Catholics Choose Health Care Sharing Ministries Instead of Obamacare
Opinion -health-care-news, News -This faith-based alternative to health insurance is gaining members at record pace. -
The Benefits of Small Government also Apply to Schools
Opinion -Editorial -A recent trip across the countryside caused me to notice something I hadn’t paid much attention to before: small, empty neighborhood schools. -
Should Report Cards Impersonally Judge Students’ Personal Qualities?
Opinion -Editorial -When they have the power to do so, parents choose a child’s school on the basis of such varied criteria as safety, discipline, moral values, curriculum, and the availability of extracurricular opportunities. -
Monumental, Unsustainable Environmental Impacts
Opinion -Editorial -Replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy would inflict major land, wildlife, resource damage. -
The Media-Left’s Uber-Fringe, Terrorist-Loving July 12 ‘Day Of Traction’
Opinion -Editorial -One of the very many things that has been hammered home in the President Donald Trump era – is that if the media wants to make a non-story a story, they certainly can. At least for them and theirs. -
Solar Fannie Mae: Worse Than Subsidizing Fake Energy? Mandating We Buy It
Opinion -Editorial -Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis popularized the phrase “laboratories of democracy”: “(T)o describe how a ‘state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country. -
The Angel with the Heart of a Pirate
Opinion -Editorial -For years consumers have watched videotapes, DVDs, and now digital movies as they see fit. But now a filtering enabled video streaming service would seek to upset that balance just so it can use other’s property without permission to make money. -
MIT President’s Letter Repeats Standard Climate Alarm Claims. Here Are The Facts.
Opinion -News -A recent letter by prominent scientists to the MIT President Rafael Reif. -
Alaska Seeks FERC Approval for Giant LNG Export Project
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Alaska state officials have asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to approve a project to develop infrastructure for transporting natural gas from Alaska’s North Slope to Asia. -
Senate Delay of Health Care Bill Shows Political Worries Over Subsidy Appeal
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Senate Republicans have repeatedly delayed votes on their proposed Obamacare replacement plans. -
Heartland Weekly: Trump Defends Western Values in Speech to the Polish People
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -n his best speech yet, this one delivered in Warsaw, Poland on Thursday, President Donald Trump powerfully asserted an unabashed belief in the values and institutions of Western Civilization. -
Report: Provisional Licenses Would Address Physician Shortage
Opinion -health-care-news, News -The proposal would tap a surplus of medical school graduates to meet a physician shortage. -
Free-Market Groups Urge HHS to Launch Phase II of Obamacare Repeal
Opinion -health-care-news, News -The Trump administration does not have to repeal Obamacare before rescinding Obamacare mandates, the groups say. -
Owed to Joy
Opinion -Editorial -The Enlightenment could be said to have emerged from a different struggle than the one referenced by Trump in his Warsaw address. -
Climate Disaster Paper a Disaster of Bad Science
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #255 -
Trump Defends Western Values in Speech to the Polish People
Opinion -Editorial -In observing that the strength of a nation is in the character of its people, Trump is telling his own country just where we have gone wrong and how we can get right again. -
West Virginia Advances Pipeline Project
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Against the wishes of environmental groups, West Virginia’s Department of Environmental Protection has affirmed its Clean Water Act certification for the Mountain Valley Pipeline, advancing the natural-gas pipeline project toward construction. -
Retraction Request Made for NEJM Air Pollution-kills Study
Opinion -Editorial -I am writing to request that the New England Journal of Medicine retract the study entitled, “Air Pollution and Mortality in the Medicare Population” (NEJM Study) and the accompanying editorial “Air Pollution Still Kills” (NEJM Editorial). -
Armstrong: United Nations’ IPCC Climate Forecasts Violate Scientific Method
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Professor J. Scott Armstrong says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change violates each of the basic criteria of the scientific method.