Opinion
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Virginia Fails to Pass Certificate-of-Need Law Reform
Opinion -A CON law reform bill failed in the House when the Senate failed to advance similar legislation. -
Battery Baloney
Opinion -The idea of producing reliable grid power from intermittent green energy backed up by batteries looks possible in green doodle-diagrams, but would be absurdly inefficient and expensive. -
Google Antitrust Implications of Makan Delrahim as DOJ Antitrust Chief
Opinion -President Trump’s impressive nominee to head the DOJ Antitrust Division, Makan Delrahim, enters the global antitrust stage when one company, America’s Alphabet-Google, has been under near constant antitrust investigation. -
Play Ball!
Opinion -In 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the color line in major league baseball. But, who and when did the color line come into being? -
Congressional Republicans Introduce School Choice Bills
Opinion -Several bills to increase school choice are now under consideration in Congress. -
Another Key Component Of Good Tax Reform: Don’t Hike The Cap Gains Rate – End It
Opinion -In the Left’s ongoing war against anyone who makes any money – the tax code is probably their best and most vicious weapon. It is a multi-thousand page combination shot and machine gun – firing clouds of buckshot in fully automatic fashion. -
Heartland Replies to Naomi Oreskes
Opinion -We oppose climate alarmism because we know it is a fraud, a disinformation campaign used by the left to advance the same anti-human agenda they were pushing in the 1960s and 1970s. -
ICCC-12, Resetting Climate Policy Rousing Success
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #244 -
House Acts to Block Slush Fund Payments
Opinion -The 2017 Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act would block the U.S. Department of Justice from requiring defendants being prosecuted by the Federal government who accept a settlement agreement to make donations to third-party organizations. -
New Hampshire Senate Approves Universal ESA Bill
Opinion -The New Hampshire Senate voted to approve a bill that would establish a universal education savings account (ESA) program in the state. -
Alarmism Prompts Overregulation of Health Care Choices
Opinion -Gullibility, ambitious scientists, and power-hungry regulators skew patients' ability to assess risks to their health care. -
Wind Energy to Pay Own Way Under Proposed Oklahoma Budget
Opinion -Republican Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has proposed ending subsidies for wind energy producers and instead taxing them to reduce the state's budget gap. -
Congress Overturns Obama Administration ESSA Accountability Rules
Opinion -The U.S. Congress voted to end extensive Obama administration rules governing how states hold schools accountable. -
Freedom from Speech Becoming New Campus Norm
Opinion -Did our Revolutionary forebears have it all wrong? Do young social-justice warriors at elite universities have it right? Is it true or false that what Americans need is not the freedom of speech that is protected in the Constitution? -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Maryland Legislature Passing Fracking Ban
Opinion -"Maryland’s legislators, and its governor by signing the bill, chose image over substance and alarmism over realism in banning fracking." - H. Sterling Burnett -
Health Care Reform Lives, Vindicating House Conservatives
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #540 -
Climate-Driven Coal Closures Harm Investors, Workers And Ratepayers
Opinion -Coal is the fuel that powered the Industrial Revolution. Trains, steel production, electric power and more were powered by King Coal, which ruled the energy roost from the mid-19th century through the late-20th century. -
Government-Spending Limits Protect Against Invasion Of Taxmen
Opinion -Once again the Taxmen come to collect your hard earned dollar. -
California School Has Funding Cut Because Student Population Is Too White
Opinion -School Choice Weekly #173 -
Pipeline Protesters Trash Protest Site
Opinion -Protesters fighting completion of the Dakota Access oil pipeline left behind tons of trash threatening to pollute the regions water. -
Education Savings Accounts: The Great Peacemaker?
Opinion -Determined progress on the “civil rights issue of our time,” despite unfortunate Republican opposition. -
Michigan Considers Bills to Repeal, Replace Common Core
Opinion -The Michigan House and Senate are considering companion bills that would repeal the state’s adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and replace them with the highly-regarded standards Massachusetts used during the 2008-09 school year. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to President Trump’s Energy Independence Executive Order
Opinion -‘For many of us who were marginalized, ignored, or demonized for the past eight years, this is an occasion for real joy, celebration, and yes, vindication.’ – Joseph Bast -
Is Your Health Insurance Good For You?
Opinion -Imagine that you don’t feel well. You have had nausea and vague abdominal pain for a week, and you notice that your belt is getting tighter. You have not seen a doctor in a while and sense something could be seriously wrong. So what do you do?