Opinion
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Real Energy Expert Destroys John Oliver’s Ignorant, Profanity-Laced Rant About Coal
Opinion -Last month, HBO funnyman John Oliver spent an episode of his show Last Week Tonight delivering a profanity-laced rant demonizing coal, coal-energy advocates, and presidents of the United States who don coal-miner hard-hats. -
Insanity and Hypocrisy Down Under
Opinion -Al Gore’s bombast and hypocrisy, an energy debacle “no one saw coming,” lessons for USA. -
Heartland Weekly: The Left’s Misleading Green Jobs Claims
Opinion -Solar- and wind-generated power, being much more expensive than conventional fossil-fuel-generated electricity, would only be used sparingly if not for massive government subsidies. This and more in this week's Heartland Weekly. -
Thriving Homeschool Model Revives Tradition of One-Room Schoolhouse
Opinion -A home-centered education movement that began as one mother’s educational vision for her son has expanded to serve more than 104,000 students nationwide. -
One Size Doesn’t Fit All
Opinion -The Republicans in the Senate have rolled out Ryancare 3.0. -
Why Trump is Right About Wind Power and His Detractors Are Wrong
Opinion -What does anyone gain from subsidizing wind power? -
Why Aren’t Google Amazon & Facebook’s Winner-Take-All Networks Neutral?
Opinion -Ironically, the world’s leading winner-take-all Internet platforms -- Google, Amazon, and Facebook -- are the leading voices of the July 12th “Internet-wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality.” -
Alarming Climate: Expert Opinions and Government Funding Versus Scientific Forecasting
Opinion -An essay on forecasting by three leading scientists in their fields, written in response to MIT President Rafael Reif. -
New Hampshire Gov. Sununu Rejects Climate Alliance
Opinion -New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) rejected calls to have the state join the nascent U.S. Climate Alliance, a group formed after President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris climate agreement on June 1. -
Congress Considers Water-Rights Protection Bill
Opinion -Rep. Scott Tipton reintroduced the Water Rights Protection Act to uphold state water laws and water-rights assignments against federal regulatory agencies’ attempts to reduce property owners’ water rights. -
Ohio Considers Expanding State’s Voucher Program
Opinion -A bill to expand Ohio’s private school voucher program is under consideration in the state Senate’s Education Committee. -
Oklahoma Criminalizes Violent Pipeline Protests
Opinion -A new Oklahoma law imposes significant penalties, including fines and imprisonment, on people and organizations involved in trespassing and other unlawful acts against oil and gas pipelines and related energy infrastructure. -
Senate Considers Bills to Reclaim Regulatory Authority
Opinion -On May 17, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee sent five bills to the full Senate that would reform how federal agencies implement rules and how such rules are finalized. -
Michigan Doctors Seek Protection from Private Certification Board
Opinion -Maintenance of certification requirements divert time and money away from patients, doctors say. -
Report: States Should Protect Free Speech in Medicine
Opinion -The Goldwater Institute report presents a pathway to letting manufacturers and doctors inform patients about off-label uses of drugs. -
Study: Large Employers Want Health Insurance Flexibility, Transparency
Opinion -It's time people knew the price of the health care services they use, employers say. -
Senate Passes VA Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act
Opinion -The bill would make it easier to terminate negligent employees. -
Telemedicine Compact Connects Doctors, Patients in Eight States
Opinion -Simple reciprocity would be even easier, but the compact could still help, experts say. -
Analysis: Mental Health Care Law Needs Further Improvement
Opinion -The law has provisions that make it unlikely the law will achieve its own goals, Dr. Emmons explains. -
Executive Order Leaves Room for Doubt About HHS Mandate
Opinion -The order could prove an eventual win for people who object to coercive federal health policy regulations. -
California Senate Approves $400 Billion Single-Payer Health Care System
Opinion -The bill ultimately failed, when a rational source of funding proved elusive. -
Millennial Group Proposes Obamacare Replacement Plan
Opinion -The next generation of leaders is fed up with Obamacare. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts Comment on New Senate Republican Health Reform Bill
Opinion -‘The Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) is hardly perfect or even a repeal of Obamacare. However, given the political realities facing the nation and the dire state of the health care market, the BCRA would be a positive step.’ – Justin Haskins -
‘We Are Still In’: Rahm Emanuel’s Futile and Stupid Virtue Signaling
Opinion -Emanuel, like Daley before him, will end up getting exactly what he wants: to take a victory lap and be feted for being an enlightened, progressive environmental steward, and to have no one notice when it all turns out to be a sham.
