Opinion
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Do We Want The Tax Code To Prioritize Job Exporters – Or Job Importers?
Opinion -Editorial -On this I am totally with the Libertarians – taxation is theft. But I am a Realist. In the panoply of evils – taxation is a necessary one. -
Travel Ban Is Revealing—but Does Not Threaten American Medicine
Opinion -Editorial -A 90-day ban on travel from seven countries has sparked tremendous outpourings of “worry” or outright opposition by some 33 medical organizations. -
Energy Restrictions, Not Climate Change, Put Civilizations at Risk
Opinion -Editorial -The gaseous emissions of a misanthrope. -
Where Wonder Led Me
Opinion -school-reform-news -We didn’t know wonder was enlivening our home until it died. -
Chicago-Area Public School Mandates Students Discuss ‘White Guilt,’ ‘Blackeconomics’
Opinion -school-reform-news -A Chicago, Illinois-area public high school forced students to attend presentations and seminars centered on race and progressive messaging. -
Natural Resources Defense Council: The Scaremongering Chemophobe-in-Chief
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Natural Resources Defense Council is one of the largest, most politically influential environmental scaremongering groups pushing bans on modern chemicals and fossil fuel use. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Defeat of North Dakota Dental Therapy Licensure Bill
Opinion -Press Release -“The entrenched special-interest groups of dentists who opposed this measure may now congratulate themselves for robbing each other of a chance to innovate, grow their practices, and treat needy patients.” - Michael Hamilton -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline
Opinion -Press Release -"This is a common-sense approval that is long overdue. This pipeline will make it easier for domestic oil producers to compete in a global marketplace." - Isaac Orr -
Trump Signaled Rule of Law is Still King with ObamaCare Order
Opinion -Editorial -If President Trump follows the principles enshrined in his executive order on Obamacare, he will have done more to promote the rule of law in America in his first four hours in the White House than some presidents accomplished in four years. -
We Have a New Education Secretary
Opinion -school-choice-weekly, Editorial -School Choice Weekly #168 -
Michigan Legislator Proposes Teacher Pension Reform Plan
Opinion -school-reform-news -A Michigan lawmaker says he plans to push forward a plan to reform the state’s unsustainable teacher-pension system. -
BLM Opens Ohio’s Wayne National Forest to Oil and Gas Production
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has opened new areas in Ohio’s Wayne National Forest to oil and gas production. -
Dallas Public School District Working to Win Back Choice Students
Opinion -school-reform-news -The Dallas Independent School District (DISD) held a school fair to advertise its offerings to students who have left local public schools for alternative learning opportunities. -
Capitulation before the First Shots Are Fired
Opinion -Editorial -For a half-century, conservatives have watched Congress incur deficits and accumulate debt, making ours one of the most indebted countries in the world. -
How Cruz Can Stomp Sanders in Tonight’s Obamacare Debate
Opinion -consumer-power-report, Editorial -Consumer Power Report #534 -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Confirmation of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos
Opinion -Press Release -‘The status quo in American education must be broken, and Betsy DeVos is the first nominee for the Department of Education who might actually break it.’ – Bruno Behrend -
Presidential Inaugurations and the Politics of Stealing Apples
Opinion -Editorial -Whether reporters hated or loved the dawn of the presidential “Age of Trump,” they all emphasized, in a near hushed religious reverence, the magical meaning of the peaceful transfer of political power from one president to another -
States Sue FWS Over ESA Habitat Changes
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Eighteen states are suing the federal government to overturn a rule expanding the government’s “critical habitat” definition for endangered species to areas which do not contain, and are not currently suitable to contain those species. -
Unique Catholic School Model Brings Service and Faith to Philadelphia
Opinion -school-reform-news -“Virtue, liberty, and independence” is Pennsylvania’s motto, and one Philadelphia Catholic high school is taking the saying to heart in preparing its graduates for spiritual and career success. -
Home School Legal Defense Association Sues New York City for Allegedly Mistreating Families
Opinion -school-reform-news -The Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) has filed a civil rights lawsuit against New York City public schools “over their systematic mistreatment of homeschooling families.” -
School Choice Advocate Confirmed as Ed Sec in Historic Tiebreaking Vote
Opinion -school-reform-news -Signaling a big change in national education policy, Vice President Mike Pence cast a historic tiebreaking vote to confirm Betsy DeVos as the new U.S. education secretary. -
Push for Maryland Fracking Ban Is Based on Bad Science
Opinion -Editorial -Opponents of fracking claim it will contaminate water supplies, but the Environmental Protection Agency failed to produce any evidence suggesting fracking has caused widespread or systemic impacts on water supplies. -
Ronald Reagan’s American Exceptionalism
Opinion -Editorial -This 106th anniversary of the birth of Ronald Reagan provides an apt occasion to reflect on what was surely a keystone of the 40th president’s thoughts on government: the idea of American Exceptionalism. -
The Hidden Agendas of Sustainability Illusions
Opinion -Editorial -Absurd, impractical sustainability precepts are actually a prescription for government control.