Opinion
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Radical Green and Government Agitators Slam Methane in Latest Bid to Terminate Fossil Fuel Use
Opinion -Quick: What is 17 cents out of $100,000? If you said 0.00017 percent, you win the jackpot. That number, by sheer coincidence, is also the percentage of methane in Earth’s atmosphere. That’s a trivial amount, you say: 1.7 parts per million. -
The “Establishment” is Slow to Learn; Senate Republicans Pushing for More #GreenPork
Opinion -In this election cycle, we hear a lot about the “establishment.” Most people are not really sure who they are, but they are sure that they do not like them. -
Author Peter W. Wood Proclaims ‘Common Core is Dead’
Opinion -As part of The Heartland Institute's continuing series of book and movie events, specifically designed to showcase freedom, the book, "Drilling through the Core”, edited with an introduction by Peter W. -
Climate Symbolism Carries High Costs
Opinion -During March 22 hearings before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, under questioning by West Virginia Rep. -
Deep-Sixing Another Useful Climate Myth
Opinion -The vaunted “97% consensus” on dangerous manmade global warming is just more malarkeyBy now, virtually everyone has heard that “97% of scientists agree: Climate change is real, manmade and dangerous. -
Suing into Submission
Opinion -According to Mark Twain, “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” Now six state attorney generals (AG) have banded together to do something about it by initiating governmental legal prosecution. -
The Progressive War on Free Speech – Part Two
Opinion -O’Sullivan’s Law, named after British journalist John O’Sullivan, holds that any organization or enterprise that is not expressly right wing will become left wing over time. -
Obama’s Attorney General Says She’s Considered Using An Old Law To Silence Global Warming Critics
Opinion -President Barack Obama is downright hostile to the free flow of information, open debate, and research contradicting his opinions and the policies he uses to support them. -
Idaho Lawmakers Reject Modified Medicaid Expansion
Opinion -In one of the Idaho Legislature’s final votes in its 2016 session, House lawmakers rejected a proposed Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) designed to provide health insurance coverage to the 78,000 individuals in Idaho’s so-called -
The Supreme Court’s Three Big Mistakes on Obamacare
Opinion -Just one week after the Obama administration celebrated the sixth anniversary of the passage of the Affordable Care Act, many people are still shaking their heads at the Supreme Court’s 2012 decision upholding the law’s individual mandate. -
U.S. Natural Gas Exports Begin
Opinion -In a development few could have foreseen as recently as a decade ago, the United States recently exported its first shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG). -
Kansas Lawmakers Approve Welfare-to-Work Reforms
Opinion -The Kansas Senate has approved a bill to make reforms to the state’s welfare entitlement program. If approved by the House and signed into law by Gov. -
New Austin, Texas Zoning Regulations Target Airbnb, Property Rights
Opinion -Austin city lawmakers approved new zoning regulations targeting companies such as Airbnb, a peer-to-peer economy company connecting tourists seeking short-term housing and hosts who provide places to stay. -
How Business-Liability Reform Can Help Encourage Ex-Offender Employment
Opinion -When a former offender leaves prison to rejoin the community, much of his success at staying away from crime depends on his ability to find a job. -
The Bogus EPA is Causing Everyone Real Problems
Opinion -Let us conduct an overview just of what we have only recently learned about theunconstitutional, overreaching and abusive Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). -
Utah Limits Medicaid Expansion to Individuals with ‘Greatest Need’
Opinion -Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R) signed into law on March 25 House Bill 437, a Republican-sponsored alternative to a Democratic plan to expand Medicaid more broadly under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). -
Wikipedia and the Climate Non-Debate
Opinion -Wikipedia, known as the “people’s encyclopedia,” has proven to be anything but a reliable source in regards to the debate concerning the causes and possible consequences of climate change. -
Regulators Approve Mine Proposal on National Forest Land, Hurdles Remain
Opinion -The Obama administration and Montana regulators approved the construction of what could become one of the world’s largest copper and silver mines. -
Health Care Sharing Ministry Memberships More Than Double Since ACA Passage
Opinion -As health insurance premiums and deductibles rise under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), more families are turning to insurance alternatives known as health care sharing ministries (HCSMs) to defray health care costs. -
Washington, D.C. Bipartisanship, They Say? Someone Tell the FCC
Opinion -There is much bemoaning of the loss of bipartisanship in Washington, D.C. Gone, they say, are the grand bargains – the two Parties coming together to reach deals that solve problems. Such the loss, they say. -
Report: Obamacare Fails to Meet Obama’s 2009 Promises
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #501 In September 2009, President Barack Obama released a highly touted report on the state of health insurance prices in the United States, titled The Burden of Health Insurance Premium Increases on American Families. -
The Progressive War on Free Speech – Part One
Opinion -It’s generally taken as a given that the American left is in favor of individual freedoms, but when it comes to the First Amendment that seems hardly any longer to be the case. A few examples should suffice. -
Legislative Pulse: Florida State Rep. John Wood Fights Federal, Local Regulatory Overreach
Opinion -Editor’s Note: Three-term Florida state Rep. -
Policy Diagnosis: Direct Primary Care Helps Patients, Doctors, and the Health Care System
Opinion -Editor’s Note: Fifteen U.S. states have active laws respecting patients and physicians who enter private agreements under a payment model called direct primary care.