Opinion
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A Challenging and Worthwhile Exploration of the Fed’s Real History
Opinion -Review of Money: Free and Unfree, by George Selgin (Cato Institute), 2017, 382 pages, ISBN-13: 978-1944424299; $16.96 on Amazon.com. -
Science, Engineering and Leadership
Opinion -Creating balance and stability in a chaotic political and economic environment. -
Senate Revives Bill to Allow States to Impose Online Sales Taxes
Opinion -The latest incarnation of the Marketplace Fairness Act, a bill to allow states to collect sales taxes on businesses outside their jurisdiction that sell goods and services to consumers inside their borders, is under consideration by the U.S. Senate. -
Trump Rejects Robbing Peter to Pay Paul
Opinion -President Trump kept his campaign promise to cancel the Paris Climate Agreement, but the fight for withdrawal was a difficult one. -
NFL Barber Shop Faces Same Kind of Threat Hurting Patients
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #548 -
Brownsville, Texas Gives Up Plastic Bag Fee
Opinion -As part of a settlement agreement, on April 11 Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton dropped the state’s lawsuit against the city of Brownsville over its first-in-the-state 2010 ordinance imposing a $1 per-transaction fee on plastic bags offered at stores. -
Economic Ideas: Karl Marx and the Presumption of a “Right Side” to History
Opinion -What does it mean to be on the "right" side of history? -
Texas Clean-Up Plan Could Cause Environmental Disaster, State, Army Corps Say
Opinion -The State of Texas and local business and city leaders are fighting a clean-up plan of a toxic waste site proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. -
The Paris Climate Agreement, Not “Climate Change,” Is the Threat; Trump’s Pull-out Is Good for the Poor and for Our Health
Opinion -A consortium of medical societies is echoing former President Obama’s dire warning that climate change is the biggest threat facing the world and public health. -
Anti-Trumpism in the classroom at Butler
Opinion -“Donald J. Trump won the U.S Presidency despite perpetuating sexism, white supremacy, xenophobia, nationalism, nativism, and imperialism.” -
Will Public Schools Survive if Blaine Amendments Don’t?
Opinion -Blaine amendments, borne out of 19th-century anti-Catholic bigotry, have been the constant bane of the modern education-choice movement. -
Pittsburgh, Paris and the Possible
Opinion -Pittsburgh’s Democratic Mayor Bill Peduto recently claimed that despite Trump leaving Paris, the city is still committed to renewable energy. -
Heartland Weekly: Heartland Institute Experts in Rose Garden as Trump Announces Withdrawal from Paris Climate Agreement
Opinion -resident Donald Trump invited three members of The Heartland Institute’s team – Joseph Bast, Fred Palmer, and Aaron Stover – to the White House to witness a historic moment on Thursday. -
Trump Challenges Monument Designations
Opinion -President Donald Trump issued two executive orders that could reverse or significantly revise the size and management of national monuments declared by presidents since January 1, 1996. -
Health Departments Lobbying Against E-Cigs Are Robbing Taxpayers, Harming Public Health
Opinion -As if the Food and Drug Administration’s deeming regulations weren’t enough to stall the future of the vaping industry, numerous county health departments have decided to lodge themselves in the war against electronic cigarettes. -
Freelance-Physician Market Growth Accelerates with ‘Nomad Health’
Opinion -Some are calling it the Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb of health care. -
Arkansas Seeks Feds’ Approval to Roll Back Medicaid Expansion, Adopt Work Requirements
Opinion -Approval could result in the first major rollback of Medicaid expansion under Obamacare. -
West Virginia Reduces Reach of Certificate-of-Need Law
Opinion -The law exempts purchasers of financially distressed hospitals from onerous regulations. -
Houston Dental Support Organization Provides Free Service for Low-Income Women
Opinion -DSOs perform nonclinical tasks to help dental practices run more efficiently. -
Will Special Counsel Mueller Become a Thorn in the Side for Trump?
Opinion -Democrats have implied and worked hard to prove their supposition of Russian influence in our election. -
Trump Advances the U.S. Economy by Canceling Paris Climate Agreement
Opinion -The result of President Trump's actions is to lead our country to great economic wealth instead of economic stagnation. -
Alphabet-Google Big Takeaways from Trump Antitrust Chief’s Senate Answers
Opinion -Reportedly the EU will rule Google has abused its search dominance this summer, putting the growth and profitability of the ~30% European part of Alphabet-Google’s revenue base at risk. -
Government Cronyism – Looking To Stop The Power Of Technology And The Free Market
Opinion -The big government cronyism racket – is absurd. It is a disjointed, discombobulated mess of ridiculous ideas and assertions – put forward in steadfast defiance of the fundamentals of the free market and human nature. -
Trump Bids Paris Adieu!
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #251