Opinion
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MIT President’s Letter Repeats Standard Climate Alarm Claims. Here Are The Facts.
Opinion -A recent letter by prominent scientists to the MIT President Rafael Reif. -
Alaska Seeks FERC Approval for Giant LNG Export Project
Opinion -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 -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 -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 -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 -The Trump administration does not have to repeal Obamacare before rescinding Obamacare mandates, the groups say. -
Owed to Joy
Opinion -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 -Climate Change Weekly #255 -
Trump Defends Western Values in Speech to the Polish People
Opinion -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 -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 -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 -Professor J. Scott Armstrong says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change violates each of the basic criteria of the scientific method. -
New Book Shows Governments Cause Ocean Fisheries Decline, Proposes Solutions
Opinion -Governments around the world have managed fisheries to benefit local fishing industries with various types of welfare and subsidies, resulting in a decline in ocean fish stocks. -
Will the Fireworks of the Fourth Ignite a Spark of Comprehension?
Opinion -Rising generations in our own country may decide for themselves if the Declaration of Independence still drives a spirit of American exceptionalism. -
Let July 4 Be ACA Independence Day
Opinion -The Senate has finally unveiled its heretofore secret plan for pretending to repeal the (Un)Affordable Care Act (ACA, UCA, or ObamaCare): the Better Care Reconciliation Act. -
New York Gov. Cuomo Pushes Costly Methane Reduction Plan
Opinion -New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced an ambitious plan to reduce methane emissions by 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050 throughout New York. -
Wind Power’s Future in U.S. Could Be Thwarted by Grassroots Opposition
Opinion -The luster is coming off wind power as an economically viable, environmentally friendly, community-friendly source of America’s energy future—and for some very good reasons. -
Cities Committing Costly Climate Mistakes
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #254 -
GOP Needs To Stop Feeding The Hands That Bite Them
Opinion -The old idiom is “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.” Which means don’t “turn on someone that has supported you.” -
Is $13.7 Billion a Good Price for Whole Foods?
Opinion -Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross called Amazon's recent $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods a "clever move" because it marries Amazon's marketing and distribution expertise with a "high-quality, niche retailer." -
Prove Naysayers Wrong, Get Tax Reform Moving Now
Opinion -According to the June 2017 National Association for Business Economists’ (NABE) report, a survey of professional business forecasters, the Trump administration’s plans to overhaul the federal tax system isn’t likely to happen until 2018. -
Bottom-Up Cronyism – No Better Than Top-Down Cronyism
Opinion -Government cutting special deals for special friends – is always obnoxious, obnoxiously bad policy. -
Congress Targets 1973 Endangered Species Act for Improvement
Opinion -Saying the 1973 Endangered Species Act (ESA) is an expensive failure, U.S. Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Dean Heller (R-NV) and U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO) introduced legislation to revise the ESA. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Names Former Congressman Tim Huelskamp Incoming President
Opinion -Huelskamp Will Succeed Founding President Joseph Bast, Who Has Led the Illinois-based, National Free-Market Think Tank Since 1984 Founding
