Opinion
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PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Arrest of College Students Distributing Constitutions at Public College
Opinion -"The students at ... are heroes of the movement to protect free speech on America’s college campuses, and they should be applauded for their refusal to accept the mandates of a clearly tyrannical college administration." - Teresa Mull -
Conservation – Not More Control
Opinion -Collusive lawsuits helped control more US lands. Congress must repeal and replace the ESA. -
Lawmakers’ Deal Sets Stage for April Budget Bill
Opinion -Lawmakers’ last-minute approval of a bill appropriating temporary federal government spending will delay federal budget battles until April 2017. -
FCC’s Net Neutrality Enforcement Policy Should be Rated Zero
Opinion -Apparently, no good deed goes unpunished for the outgoing Federal Communications Commission. -
Trump ‘Big Border Tax’ Talk Stirs Up U.S. Businesses
Opinion -Taking to social media to express his displeasure with an April 2015 siting decision by a multinational automobile manufacturing company, then-President-elect Donald Trump threatened to make the company “pay [a] big border tax.” -
Texas Lawmakers Propose Amendment Convention Resolution
Opinion -The Texas Legislature is considering a resolution calling for a national convention to draft and enact a balanced budget amendment prohibiting the federal government from running budget deficits. -
Missouri Governor Opposes Sports Stadium Subsidies, Tax Credits
Opinion -Characterizing a proposed financing deal for a St. Louis soccer stadium as “welfare for millionaires,” Missouri’s new governor ruled out in January the possibility of using taxpayers’ money or tax credits to entice stadium developers to Missouri. -
Bill McKibben Toys with Climate Facts for Fun and Profit
Opinion -How Bill McKibben sleeps at night amidst his non-stop proliferation of lies is beyond me – though I expect he has profited handsomely in some way or another. -
Right-to-Work Bill Proposed in New Hampshire
Opinion -New Hampshire legislators are considering a bill that would allow workers to opt out of union membership, freeing them from being forced to join a union as a condition of employment. -
Indiana Lawmaker Proposes Curtailing Government ‘Policing for Profit’
Opinion -The Indiana General Assembly is considering reforming its laws permitting governments to take ownership of people’s cash and property without first proving they were used in the commission of a crime. -
Failing Dallas, Texas Pension Fund Prompts Mayor’s Call for Criminal Investigation
Opinion -Dallas, Texas Mayor Mike Rawlings (D) is requesting a criminal investigation of the city’s government pension fund program after the government employees’ union rejected reforms proposed to rescue the fund from insolvency. -
Students and Faculty Push for ‘Sanctuary’ Campuses
Opinion -Faculty and students at nearly 200 colleges and universities have petitioned their administrations to make their schools “sanctuaries,” to prevent the deportation of students who are illegal immigrants. -
Trumping the Media
Opinion -The President-Elect upends a news media that’s still in denial about its vanished world. -
Congress Is Key to Reining in Regulatory Excess
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #237 -
Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast on Trump’s Inaugural Address
Opinion -‘Trump’s repeated promise to put the interests of Americans first sounded odd, to me and probably to many people listening to this address, because it is so rarely heard from our national elected leaders.’ -
Smaller Government is the Best Cure for Political Brain Freeze
Opinion -Americans must face up to the facts: politics has most likely blinded them, obscuring their view of significant facts and all but blacking out the portion of their brains devoted to critical thinking. -
How Left-wing and Racist Radicals Are Infiltrating Our Children’s Minds
Opinion -Once upon a time in America, parents could send their children off to school—even to public schools—and presume accurately their little ones were being taught simply “the three Rs.” No longer. -
Homeschooling Booming in South Dakota
Opinion -The number of families homeschooling in South Dakota increased by 40 percent between 2010 and 2015, according to data provided by the South Dakota Department of Education (DOE). -
Voucher Bill Proposed in Tennessee
Opinion -Tennessee Rep. Bill Dunn (R-Knoxville) says he plans to reintroduce a bill to bring school vouchers to the state in 2017. -
Dodd-Frank: All Of It Is Awful – So All Of It Needs To Go
Opinion -For decades and decades in Washington, D.C., members of both political Parties have time and again thrown at us the Groucho Marx quote: “Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?” -
Fixing FDA is Literally a Matter of Life and Death
Opinion -In a December 60 Minutes interview, House Speaker Paul Ryan spoke of the need for regulatory reform. -
Congress Should Get Ready to ‘SCRUB’ Regulatory Rulebooks
Opinion -There are many silly days of observance scattered throughout the year, but one fake holiday presents a real, hidden message lawmakers in Washington should heed. -
What If Sick People Lose Their ObamaCare?
Opinion -As Republicans contemplate repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA or “ObamaCare”)—seriously, not just as a political gesture—alarms are sounding about millions of individuals losing coverage. -
Kentucky Board of Education Issues Charter School Guidelines
Opinion -Kentucky is one of seven states that do not allow charter schools, but the state’s board of education recently approved a set of charter school guidelines, signaling its anti-choice policy may change soon.