Opinion
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Federal Judges Dismiss Chicago Taxicab Owners’ Lawsuit
Opinion -Federal judges rejected an appeal filed by Chicago taxicab companies claiming the city government was violating the companies’ constitutional rights by not applying taxicab regulations to peer-to-peer economy transportation network companies (TNCs). -
Nevada Gov. Sandoval Signs Vegas Sports Subsidy Tax Hike
Opinion -Nevada lawmakers approved a tax hike passed to finance taxpayer subsidies for a proposed football stadium in Las Vegas. -
Book Defends Sound Science Against Politicization
Opinion -In Standing with Giants, 14 scientists pay tribute to Elizabeth Whelan by providing sound science on topics including energy, climate change, air pollution and biotechnology. -
Trump’s Tax Reform Promises A Boom. Hillary’s Trillion-Dollar Hike Guarantees Recession
Opinion -Few people understand that Trump’s tax reform plan builds on the House Republican Task Force appointed by House Speaker Paul Ryan earlier this year, and chaired by chief House tax writer Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX). -
Environmental Prosecutions Decline Under President Obama
Opinion -The number of criminal prosecutions pursued by the Environmental Protection Agency have fallen by half during the last five years under the Obama administration. -
Ebb and Flow Continues in State Climate Lawsuits
Opinion -Climate Change Weekly #230 -
America Needs to Use More Energy, Not Less
Opinion -During the 2016 election, both candidates promised to bring manufacturing back - Donald Trump made the recovery of jobs lost to China and Mexico a cornerstone of his campaign. -
Size of Government Is the Real Cause of Nation’s Political Uproar
Opinion -It would be a miracle if people were not arguing intently over this election, because the nation’s government has grown so big that there is more at stake than ever before. -
The Government Should Play No Role in Educating Our Children
Opinion -As the presidential election looms, The Economist considers whether the next president will use “the regulatory power of the federal government to spur reform” in education policy and if he or she does how that will be accomplished. -
Roundup the Corrupt Fear Mongers
Opinion -Deceit and collusion drive campaigns to ban a vital, popular, safe, affordable herbicide. -
Heartland’s Horace Cooper on The O’Reilly Factor!
Opinion -If you don’t visit Freedom Pub and the Heartlander digital magazine every day, you’re missing out on some of the best news and commentary on liberty and free markets you can find. But worry not, freedom lovers! The Heartland Weekly Email is here! -
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 -Editorial -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.
