Opinion
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PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Expert Reacts to Signing of Education Choice Expansion Bill
Opinion -"Florida continues to be one of the leaders in expanding education opportunities for students." - Lennie Jarratt -
US Funding Dubious Science and Unfounded Fear
Opinion -Editorial -Eco-militants that defiled scientific integrity in government agencies defy corrections. -
Rhode Island Considers Carbon Tax
Opinion -Rhode Island lawmakers are considering imposing a carbon tax that would increase energy costs and other prices of goods and services in the state. -
CBO Score Muddies American Health Care Act Debate
Opinion -CBO uses antiquated data to score the House Obamacare replacement bill. -
States Ask Feds to Approve Work Requirements for Medicaid
Opinion -State officials are ready to move forward with Obamacare repeal. -
The Cryptoeconomy Is Flowering Before Your Eyes
Opinion -The pace of development is red hot. Every innovation is being tested against user experience and investor enthusiasm. -
Senate Health Care Bill Rearranges Deck Chairs on Titanic
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #550 -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Expert Reacts to Georgia Supreme Court Ruling on Tax-Credit Scholarships
Opinion -"This ruling is common sense, affirming monies that never pass through government coffers are not government money." - Lennie Jarratt -
Fake News Vs Real Collusion: Wash Post Concocts The Former, Protects The Latter
Opinion -The Washington Post is a legacy, old school fake news outlet. Aside from the New York Times, no newspaper carries more national clout. -
Book Exposes EPA Scare Tactics Behind Air Quality Rule
Opinion -In Scare Pollution, scientist and lawyer Steve Milloy, shows how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ignores the best scientific research to claim small particles are dangerous. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to CBO Score of Senate Republicans’ Health Care Bill
Opinion -Press Release -"Instead of coercion to buy insurance the uninsured do not want to buy, or wasting more trillions on Medicaid, policy should be focused on lowering premiums and expanding choice" - Peter Ferrara -
Study: Berkeley’s Sugary Beverage Tax Increases People’s Calorie Intake
Opinion -The tax resulted in unintended consequences. -
We Should be Glad the US is Out
Opinion -States that claim they’re committed to Paris do nothing for the climate and ill serve their citizens. -
Heartland Weekly: Wind Power: High Environmental Costs, Limited Energy Delivered
Opinion -In his speech on Wednesday at a rally in Iowa, President Donald Trump made fun of the idea that wind power could meet more than a small fraction of America’s energy needs. Was he right? -
Virginia Congressman Introduces ‘Acre In, Acre Out’ Act
Opinion -Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA) introduced the Acre In, Acre Out Act requiring federal agencies to sell one acre to private owners, states, or localities for every acre a federal agency adds. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Trinity Lutheran Church Victory at Supreme Court
Opinion -“The Supreme Court once again affirms the free exercise of religion ruling it is unconstitutional to deny a religious institution participation in a state program solely because of its religion.” - Lennie Jarratt -
Why US Antitrust Non-Enforcement Produces Online Winner-Take-All Platforms
Opinion -If one considers the evidence, it is evident that U.S. antitrust enforcers have enabled the current “new normal” of online winner-take-all platforms. -
Senate Misstep Will Cost Jobs and Energy
Opinion -The Senate just failed to roll back an Obama-era regulation that will discourage energy production, cost millions of dollars and kill thousands of American jobs. -
The last convention of states ever held? It Centered on the Upper Colorado River
Opinion -I recently obtained the records of what may be the last convention of states ever held—records demonstrating that states were meeting in convention well into the mid 20th century. -
‘Carried Interest’: Let’s Not Increase Taxes On Our Economy’s Engine
Opinion -Leftism is such an easy soundbite sell. It’s a gaggle of five-second one-liners that seem to make perfect sense – right up until someone applies actual thought to any of them. -
Rick Perry Was Right on CNBC: CO2 Is not the Control Knob of Climate
Opinion -When you know what’s going on – and know the science – you realize that it’s Keith Seitter of the AMS who has some explaining to do, not Rick Perry. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts Comment on Senate GOP Health Care Reform Bill
Opinion -Press Release -“Congressional Republicans are exhibiting willful ignorance of the lessons Obamacare should have taught them. Subsidizing health insurers is not a sound basis for a health care system, in theory or in fact.” - Michael Hamilton -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Planned Protest of Illinois Fracking Project
Opinion -‘It appears these protesters know little about fracking and are seeking only to frighten their neighbors.’ – Isaac Orr -
Saving Money but Costing Lives
Opinion -The Obamacare death panel should be killed before it’s too late.