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December 2, 2020
Dr. Walter E. Williams, R.I.P.
By Joseph Bast
Dr. Walter Williams, a distinguished economist and long-time friend and advisor to The Heartland Institute, died December 2. He was 83.
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December 2, 2020
California Public Advocates Office enters a “common interest agreement” with the Sierra Club to help the CPUC ban the use of natural gas
By Ronald Stein, P.E.
California’s high cost of electricity is already fifty percent higher than the national average for residents
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December 2, 2020
Don’t Confuse Free Markets with the Interventionist State
By Richard Ebeling
The important task for those who value personal freedom, economic liberty and the free market economy is to disabuse our fellow citizens from thinking that what we have is a fully capitalist system
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December 1, 2020
Sheldon Whitehouse’s Climate Inquisition Continues
By Paul Driessen
Senator Torquemada wants to jail those who dissent from his alarmist views on climate
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December 1, 2020
Science or Science Fiction?
By Larry Sand
Teacher union leader claims we should follow the science, but then she ignores it
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November 30, 2020
USA Today & Facebook Use Slanderous “Fact Check” to Suppress Facts About Illegal Voting By Non-Citizens
By James Agresti
A “fact check” by USA Today contains 10 demonstrably false claims that smear a range of scholars and denigrate a rigorously documented study as “unfounded.”
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November 30, 2020
Slight, beneficial warming from more carbon dioxide!
By David Wojick
Exhaustive study finds more CO2 and water molecules will not cause dangerous warming
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November 30, 2020
What Would Biden’s Health Care System Look Like?
By Christina Herrin
Joe Biden, who will likely become president next year, has suggested he will seek to expand on the failed “Obamacare” system by including a public option, colloquially known as “Bidencare.”
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November 30, 2020
Government Disproportionately Harms Poorer Americans More
By Seton Motley
Shocker: Life is usually harder when you have less money
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November 24, 2020
Past Is Prologue: Obama-Biden Was Owned and Operated by Big Tech, So…
By Seton Motley
“What is past is prologue” -- William Shakespeare, The Tempest
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November 24, 2020
The Great American Outdoors Act
By Duggan Flanakin
This crown jewel of the Trump Administration’s environmental record will bring many benefits
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November 23, 2020
Preventing Future Forest Infernos
By Paul Driessen
Getting past the climate scapegoat, and taking steps that could actually make a difference
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November 23, 2020
Lockdowns: What’s Performed Better? Government - Or Internet?
By Seton Motley
Democrats are doing to the China Virus – what they did to the Great Depression
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November 23, 2020
The Legacy of Thanksgiving is Free Enterprise
By Richard Ebeling
This year is certainly one of, if not “the,” most peculiar of Thanksgiving under the shadow of the Coronavirus and the government restrictions and prohibitions placed upon people’s activities and gatherings
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November 22, 2020
PATRIOTS MUST STAND WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP
By Nancy J. Thorner
There is a deadline for certifying the results of the election, and it varies by state
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November 20, 2020
COVID-19: Danish Mask Study Published: What Next?
By Jane M. Orient, M.D.
Now that we have a randomized controlled trial (RCT) about masks, will it change what you do?
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November 20, 2020
REMAINING PASSIVE NOT AN OPTION FOR PATRIOTS
By Nancy J. Thorner
President Biden would be worse than the Obama years of 2007-17 that gave us the lowest growth of any economic decade in U.S. history
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November 18, 2020
Government Transparency Should Not be Controversial
By Duggan Flanakin
Shining light on EPA actions should get 100% support – but is opposed by the usual suspects
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November 18, 2020
Expansion of Association Health Plans Would Improve Health Care System
By Christina Herrin
Imagine a world where your local membership shopping club or health/fitness club could sell health insurance to members
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November 17, 2020
Do Not Trust Governments with the Control of Money
By Richard Ebeling
Why is the gold standard hated so much by these critics?
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November 17, 2020
Biden Ain’t for the Kids
By Larry Sand
On education issues, trouble looms if Biden becomes president
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November 17, 2020
The structure of complex issues
By David Wojick
We live in a world of complex issues, which can be very frustrating
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November 16, 2020
Preserving courtroom and verdict integrity
By Paul Driessen
Our civil justice system is as much at risk as the integrity of ballots, elections and democracy
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November 16, 2020
Secret, Anti-Constitutional Wars? The Deep State Defense Department Is Out of Control
By Seton Motley
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists
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November 13, 2020
Rational Responses to Climate Change
By H. Sterling Burnett
Climate Change Weekly #379
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November 11, 2020
Socialist Candidates Won More Seats Than Ever in 2020 Election
By Justin Haskins
Socialists performed better than ever in 2020.
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November 10, 2020
Pandemic Pod Pushback
By Larry Sand
The education establishment is losing customers, and it isn’t happy
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November 10, 2020
Why Politics Breeds Divisive Fears and Angers
By Richard Ebeling
Americans Divided on the Most Important Issues
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November 9, 2020
Doctors with COVID-19 Put Early At-Home Treatment to the Test
By AnneMarie Schieber
Two physicians who are leading the charge on early at-home COVID-19 treatment to reduce hospitalization and death, have themselves become infected with the virus and following the regiment they, themselves preach
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November 9, 2020
Free science is here and growing fast
By David Wojick
Thanks to the miracle of online commenting the discussion of science, especially related to policy, is now a major popular pastime.
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November 9, 2020
Smokin' Joe makes another comeback
By Clifford Thies
According to Rudy Guliani, Philadelphia's own Joe Frazier made another comeback this year.
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November 9, 2020
Quantifying Illegal Votes Cast by Non-Citizens in the Battleground States of the 2020 Presidential Election
By James Agresti
This article presents a rigorous study which has found that illegal votes cast by non-citizens may have netted Joe Biden enough extra votes in battleground states to tip the overall election winner from Trump to Biden.
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November 9, 2020
How would life without fossil fuels impact society?
By Ronald Stein, P.E.
Before moving too quickly into the GND, anti-fossil fuel protesters should take the time to answer the question: How can we avoid the undisputable science that renewables can only generate intermittent electricity
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November 6, 2020
U.S. Out of Paris (For Now), But Nothing Much Has Changed
By H. Sterling Burnett
Climate Change Weekly #378
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November 6, 2020
If the Government Can’t Manage Elections, It Sure Shouldn’t Manage Health Care
By Christina Herrin
If government can’t accomplish the task of properly counting ballots in a timely manner, it is not capable of managing our health care system
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November 4, 2020
Lockdowns as a Political Tragedy of the Commons
By Richard Ebeling
A number of European governments are reinstituting degrees of new social and economic lockdowns in the name of slowing down a new wave of Coronavirus cases
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November 3, 2020
Election 2020: You Can Never Have Too Many Constitutionalist Judges and Justices
By Seton Motley
We the People dislike people we don’t elect writing our laws.
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November 3, 2020
Schools for Scandal
By Larry Sand
As shown by the 2019 NAEP, most of our students are being badly shortchanged.
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November 3, 2020
And the Election Winner is . . . Inflation in a Landslide
By Christopher P. Casey, CFA
Regardless as to which candidate secures the Presidency on November 3rd (or some subsequent date), the administration must cope with unprecedented federal debt.
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October 30, 2020
The Facts on Andrew Cuomo’s Nursing Home Policy
By James Agresti
NY Governor Andrew Cuomo forced C-19 carriers into the vicinity of the people who are most vulnerable to this disease
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