Opinion
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A Free-Market Economy Lifted My Family Out of the Welfare Projects
Opinion -I know first-hand that economic freedom, not a state-driven economy, is truly the most charitable government policy for all. -
Biggest AI Problem (for Now): The People Designing It
Opinion -We have no scintilla of understanding of the catastrophic AI creature we’re about to unleash upon our little planet. We were the only self-aware beings on Earth. That will - very soon - no longer be the case. -
Press Release: ESG Is a Threat to Individual Liberty, Free Markets, and the U.S. Economy
Opinion -Heartland Institute research explores how ESG is being implemented, and why it must be stopped. -
The Unions’ Heavy Grifting
Opinion -Over the years, the unions, especially the public employee variety, have heaped abuses on just about all of us. But finally, there are the seeds of resistance. -
Your Taxes at Work: ‘Eco-Anxiety’ Counseling for Federal Workers
Opinion -US Fish and Wildlife Service employees are struggling to cope with feelings of trauma and loss over the world’s changing climates and imperiled environments. The FWS is thus offering paid leave to employees who attend “eco-anxiety” and “climate grief” training. -
Biden Quietly Planning for a Future Where You Don’t Own Money
Opinion -All of your money would be kept by a bank or the Federal Reserve directly, which means they would own all of your CBDC money, not you. -
What Makes AI Most Dangerous Makes It Most Fixable
Opinion -Unaccountable generative AI warrants s existential concern because already it has proven to be unexplainable, unpredictable, and uncontrollable. -
Can We Halt Research into Artificial Intelligence?
Opinion -Top experts do not rule out AI getting out of control. Is it possible to conduct research to prevent this? And if not, should we permanently halt the research? -
50 Years After the Oil Embargo Crisis of 1973, No American Policy for Energy Independence
Opinion -America continues to increase its energy dependence on China for “green”, and on OPEC and Russia for oil. -
SCOTUS Holds Foreign Sovereign-Owned Entity Subject to U.S. Criminal Jurisdiction Under Commercial Exception
Opinion -This case telegraphs that the Supreme Court is strengthening the commercial exception to assertions of immunity by foreign sovereigns. -
Lighting the Way to More Government
Opinion -The breakthrough invention of Thomas Edison that brought civilization out of the whale oil age and transformed the lives of billions, is now considered one of many everyday conveniences that are destroying the planet. -
The Gender Dysphoria Fad Shows No Signs of Abating
Opinion -In the 1970s, various eating disorders were the rage. But they were treated as physical disorders and serious mental health problems. Today, bulimia and anorexia are passé and have been replaced by gender dysphoria, which is being used as a political cudgel by many with a nefarious agenda. -
Big Media Finally Catches Up: Big Banks Only Lending to Rich People
Opinion -There has been of late a trickle of “news” stories – which has Big Media FINALLY reporting something is rotten in the state of Big Banks and their loan practices. Contained within Big Media’s tardy “reporting” – are examples of just how much they have been missing the boats for more than a year. Big […] -
Climate Change Weekly #468: Fact-Checking Fact-Deprived Fact Checkers
Opinion -A funny thing happened on the way to Agence France-Presse’s (AFP) fact check of The Heartland Institute’s Climate at a Glance (CAAG) booklet for teachers and students. They forgot to check any facts. -
Biden Is Financing Putin’s War Machine with His anti-American Energy Policy
Opinion -The Biden administration repeatedly cites climate change to justify its decisions blocking new American oil projects and imposing punitive new restrictions on existing oil projects. -
Four Underused Tools to Stop School Shootings
Opinion -In the aftermath of school shootings, media outlets often amplify calls for gun control while ignoring or spurning evidence-based ways to protect students. Here are four life-saving tools they are missing or dismissing. -
Parental Choice is Proliferating Nationwide
Opinion -Wresting total control of America’s schoolchildren from the government-union educational complex is moving apace. 2021 was declared “The Year of Education Choice.” -
Will They Ever Get Tired of Losing?
Opinion -“Destructive federal overreach.” A federal judge in Texas blocked the Biden administration from implementing EPA control over all water in the US. -
Heavier EV’s Not Funding California Roadways
Opinion -California Governor Gavin Newsom has mandated no sales of internal combustion engine vehicles after 2035. He appears incapable of acknowledging EV’s currently contribute nothing for road maintenance and repairs. -
Activist Journalism Is Attempting to Pollute Science on Clean Air Regulations
Opinion -A group of activist reporters and a UC Berkeley educated epidemiologist have launched a bizarre effort to subvert the well-established regulatory science of pre-harvest burns. -
TikTok and National Security
Opinion -Congress seeks to either force a sale of TikTok to a U.S. company or ban the app. The bar to shut down or disrupt the livelihoods of law-abiding Americans should be extremely high. -
Small Lenders Beg DC to Not Accelerate DC’s Executing Them
Opinion -Silicon Valley Bank (SVB)’s demise was death by misadventure - an accidental suicide. Too many Leftist cotillions - not enough risk management. -
Greens Create Food Disaster
Opinion -Green propagandists continue to inflict lethal damage to our electricity industry – it has become dangerously unreliable and dreadfully expensive. -
Belize: I Guess I Unilaterally Seceded
Opinion -In 7th grade, I wrote a history paper saying the pre-Civil War southern states had a constitutional right (First Amendment - freedom of assembly) to leave the Union. My modern secession solution has been met with nigh universal revulsion from DC’s Conservative, Inc. For going on two decades now.