Opinion
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Those Who Can – Do. Those Who Can’t – Regulate Those Who Can
Opinion -It’s how this country became the economic light of the world. Talented people – free to do amazing things. They become fabulously wealthy – and make all our lives better and richer. -
Survey: Many Americans Still Skeptical Scientists Understand Climate Change
Opinion -A Pew Research Center survey indicates a majority of Americans do not believe scientists understand the causes or consequences of climate change well. -
Governors’ policies set stage for states’ economic success (or failure)
Opinion -Although many people are focused on the presidential race, candidates running for other important offices, such as for governor, often have a larger impact on the day-to-day lives of most people. -
Economic Ideas: The French Physiocrats and the Case for Laissez-faire
Opinion -In the middle decades of the eighteenth century two schools of thought emerged, one in France and the other in Great Britain that were critical of Mercantilism, the government system of economic planning and regulation in the 1700s. -
Feral Cat Feces Killing Wildlife in Hawaii
Opinion -Federal researchers say the cat feces carries a disease decimating endangered Hawaiian monk seal populations. -
The Failures Of Elon Musk: Space Aliens Did It
Opinion -With $5 billion from the taxpayers, I could be John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, and Andrew Carnegie myself. But those famous industrialists and financiers made huge fortunes on their own. They weren’t kept in business by a steady stream of taxpayer funds -
Who’s Not Afraid of Rising ACA Premiums?
Opinion -Consumer Power Report #524 -
Hillary/Obama Democrats Vs. Kennedy Democrats
Opinion -John F. Kennedy campaigned for president in 1960 targeting 5% real economic growth. After he was elected, he achieved that goal, doubling the slow growth of the Eisenhower 1950s. -
Climate Change is not Generating Extreme Weather
Opinion -The mainstream media parroted talking points of radical environmentalists claiming these events prove that human-caused climate change is causing extreme weather. Nothing could be further from the truth. -
Clean Energy Standard: Environmentally Worthless, Economically Punitive
Opinion -For New Yorkers, renewable-energy mandates such as CES force expensive, heavily subsidized electricity on ratepayers and taxpayers while providing few, if any, net environmental benefits. -
First Amendment Rights or Graduation?
Opinion -George Leef examines the conundrum many college kids today run into at public universities. -
Rainforest Group Says Actor DiCaprio Should Resign UN Environment Post
Opinion -The Bruno Manser Funds, a rainforest charity, called on actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio to give up his title as United Nations Messenger of Peace with a special focus on climate change. -
Tennessee Task Force Proposes Two-Phase Medicaid Expansion
Opinion -The plan would extend coverage to veterans and mental health patients before expanding coverage to all people with incomes less than 138 percent of the federal poverty line. -
What Presidents Can (And Can’t) Do about Education
Opinion -School Choice Weekly #156 -
DiCaprio Climate Catastrophe Film Boosts Clinton Campaign
Opinion -In an apparent attempt to bolster support for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Leonardo DiCaprio is releasing a new climate change movie just days before the election. -
President Obama Establishes 17th Wildlife Refuge of His Presidency
Opinion -On October 25, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced the creation of a new, 15,000-acre, Great Thicket National Wildlife Refuge. -
New Jersey Court Ruling Halts City’s Eminent Domain Plans
Opinion -An Atlantic City resident’s fight against the New Jersey Casino Reinvestment Development Authority’s plan to seize his property and resell it, for undisclosed private purposes has ended in victory, after a state judge ruled against the state agency. -
‘Ghost Pension’ Recipients Haunt Illinois Taxpayers
Opinion -An Illinois lawyer’s blog post says government employees receiving pay through taxpayer-funded pension plans at rates exceeding personal contributions towards benefits are draining the state’s pension programs. -
Entrepreneurship, the Market Economy and Human Betterment
Opinion -Through almost all mankind’s history, the human condition was one of abject poverty and hardship. -
Virginia Homeschool Co-op Flourishing
Opinion -Homeschool cooperatives have flourished in Virginia during the past two decades. Faith-based and secular, small and large, these parent-driven learning communities bolster the growing and unique needs of home educators while increasing access to expert in -
Eco-Terrorists Attack Hawaiian Hydro-Power Project, FBI, Police Investigate
Opinion -Police on the Hawaiian Island of Kauai have asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for help in capturing eco-terrorists who attacked a concrete water diversion pipeline and dam providing power to two hydro-power generators. -
More Michigan Students Are Using School Choice Programs, Study Finds
Opinion -More than one in five Michigan public school students enrolled in charter schools or crossed district lines to attend a different public school last year, a statewide study shows. -
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Wisconsin Attorney General’s Decision to Appoint a “Special Master” Relating to John Doe Investigation
Opinion -“The citizens of Wisconsin deserve to know if District Attorney John Chisholm and the other prosecutors engaged in actions that violated the free speech rights of political activists.” - Project Manager Kyle Maichle -
Haiti Needs Electricity. Hillary Gives Them a Sweatshop, Foundation Gets a New Donor
Opinion -Until Hurricane Matthew hit Haiti nearly a month ago, on October 4, the impoverished island country was out of the headlines. But new emails which were obtained from Hillary Clinton make Haiti part of the U.S. news once again.