Opinion
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Doomed Climate Lawsuits Waste Precious Time and Money
Opinion -It’s time for federal and state courts to say enough is enough and block all such lawsuits. It’s the job of elected branches, not the judiciary, to determine United States climate and energy policy. -
NASA and NOAA’s Latest Climate Warning Is a Result of Purposefully Flawed Data
Opinion -NASA and NOAA are like toddlers trying to fit square pegs into round holes, and just as likely as toddlers to throw fits when their efforts are stymied by reality. -
Proposal to Lower Healthcare Costs Will Lower Air Ambulances to the Ground
Opinion -Air transport is the one service you hope you never need, but when you do, you thank God it is there -
New Medicare Payment Model to Incentivize At-Home Kidney Dialysis
Opinion -The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is finalizing rules for a mandatory payment model meant to improve kidney care and reduce costs. -
Providing 100 Percent Energy from Renewable Sources is Impossible
Opinion -It is impossible with current technologies to provide 100 percent renewable energy at reasonable prices. -
FDA’s Broken Drug Approval System Continues Hurting Patients
Opinion -There is no question that a means testing regime ought to be in place, but by what standards and who makes that determination is what must be reexamined and changed. -
AOC Finally Has Bipartisan Idea
Opinion -Bravo to AOC and others who dare defy party bigwigs — those in smoke-filled rooms who make the “big” decisions and pull the political strings from afar. -
Chicago’s Progressive Mayor Actually Abhors Progress
Opinion -Apparently, Mayor Lightfoot is willing to cast aside her progressive values in a rather desperate attempt to tackle the city’s out-of-control debt by nickel and diming her constituents. -
Presidential Politics Taking Toll on Young Doctors, Study Finds
Opinion -Young physicians are increasingly aligning with left-of-center political viewpoints, according to results of a recent survey by BMJ, an international medical journal. -
Federal Government Rejects Effort to Ban Bear Baiting on Federal Lands in Idaho and Wyoming
Opinion -The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service asked the U.S. District Court in Idaho to dismiss a lawsuit filed by environmental groups demanding federal authorities ban black bear hunting using bait in national forests in Idaho and Wyoming. -
An Easy Choice
Opinion -Calling an for an open constitutional convention is much easier, more efficient, and holds the promise of better results than a limited-agenda one. -
Animal Welfare and Economics
Opinion -Meat is unlikely to be banned until many more Americans first become vegetarians. -
Stop Using Inadequate Climate Models for Policy Making
Opinion -The difference between the real world and the modeled world has already existed for 30 years. Unfortunately, instead of getting smaller due to a proper validation process, this difference has become bigger. -
A Vision for Tobacco Policy; 2020 Edition
Opinion -Overzealous health authorities in the U.S. have a lot to learn from their lackluster performance in 2019. But there’s hope. Hindsight is so 2020. -
The Real Threat of Viruses
Opinion -A few years ago, it was ebola. Today, the coronavirus. Tomorrow, because of mutation, it will be something else. -
Feds Nix Wyoming’s Plan to Regulate Air Ambulances Through Medicaid
Opinion -The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) denied Wyoming’s request to expand Medicaid so it can control the price and distribution of its air ambulance service. -
Too Many Regulatory Silos in Patient Care, Says HHS Deputy Secretary
Opinion -Health and Human Services (HHS) Deputy Director Eric Hargan says his agency is trying to eliminate regulatory barriers to health care in a way that would improve delivery and maintain “safeguards to patients.” -
Heartland Weekly: The Disastrous Socialist Revolution
Opinion -Week of February 3, 2020 -
The Green Oscars: A High-fashion Nightmare!
Opinion -Living high-flying lives of hypocrisy, while telling the rest of us how we should live. -
Virginia House Considers Repealing Education Tax Credit
Opinion -Control of the Virginia General Assembly flipped from Republican to Democrat in the November 2019 election, when Democrats won majorities in both the state Senate and the House of Delegates. -
Trump Administration Proposes Opening Alaskan National Petroleum Reserve to Oil and Gas Production
Opinion -The Trump administration proposed opening most of the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska to oil and gas production, reversing an Obama-era plan that closed much of the reserve. -
Kansas Lawmakers Bow to Pressure to Expand Medicaid
Opinion -Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) and Republican State Senate Majority Leader Jim Denning (R- District 8) announced a compromise proposal that would expand Medicaid to 150,000 Kansans, a step towards Kelly’s campaign promise to expand Medicaid eligibility in th -
CMS Approves Utah’s Medicaid Work Rules After Rejecting Partial Expansion
Opinion -The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved a work requirement for enrollees in the state’s expanded Medicaid program. -
Nebraska County Puts Hold on Wind Facility Development
Opinion -The Hamilton County, Nebraska Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to place a six-month hold on all applications for wind turbine projects in the county.