Opinion
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Life, Liberty, Property #134: Make Housing Affordable Again: Unlock the Supply Side
Opinion -Editorial -[A]lthough some of the ideas Trump has offered are quite good, others would cause more government interference in the housing market and would not benefit those who wish to buy or sell a house. -
Heartland Institute Experts Applaud Trump’s Imminent Repeal of the Endangering Finding for CO2
Opinion -Press Release -‘Carbon dioxide, which is required for life on earth and also happens to result from every single bit of human and animal activity on the planet, is not a pollutant and never was.’ -
Life, Liberty, Property #133: Is Inflation Already Below 1 Percent?
Opinion -Editorial -The consumer price index (CPI) from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is currently more than three times as high as the Truflation number, Crowdfund Insider notes. -
Life, Liberty, Property #132: A Potentially Historic Central Bank Reform
Opinion -Editorial -Warsh, a former member of the Federal Reserve Board, is seen as a safe choice for Fed chair because he is more hawkish on the U.S. dollar than any of his recent predecessors. -
Life, Liberty, Property #131: The Fraud Is Worse Than You Ever Imagined
Opinion -U.S. taxpayers have been victimized by at least $36 billion and possibly as much as $3 trillion in fraud through federal government entitlement programs since 2020, an investigative report by The Center Square states. The higher number is far more than most sources have suggested in the past. -
Life, Liberty, Property #130: Will Economic Improvement Affect the Midterm Vote?
Opinion -With all this good news, the regime media are desperately trying to spin it to cast doubt on the (conclusively proven) value of market-empowering reforms. Newsbusters reports on a typical example. -
Life, Liberty, Property #129: Minneapolis ICE Obstruction: ‘Resistance’ Is Now Open Rebellion
Opinion -The shooting of a driver apparently attempting to escape from ICE agents and striking one of them with her SUV in Minneapolis is an appalling event. -
Life, Liberty, Property #128: 2025 Breakdown
Opinion -The events of the years 2020 through 2024 cast enormous doubt on the competence and decency of American government [and] all the nation’s other institutions. The past year accelerated that shattering of illusions. -
Reverse Pyramid Scheme: Average Annual State Budget Is 37 Percent Federal Money
Opinion -Editorial -An alleged bulwark against the 50 states overspending like the federal government has been the old saw: “The states can’t print money.” -
Prosperity, Happiness, and Revolution
Opinion -Capitalism is in the crosshairs of most progressive, post-modern, Marxist and anti-progress intellectuals and academics. Destroying capitalism would reduce our standard of living. But leftists might already be making Americans less happy than our prosperity should afford. Chris Rufo dissects the progressive assault in his excellent book America’s Cultural Revolution, including the work of the […] -
40 Examples of Fake News in 2025
Opinion -For the purpose of media accountability, Just Facts has summarized 40 misleading claims spread by journalists, commentators, and so-called fact checkers during 2025. Each example quotes a specific media outlet, but the vast bulk of these falsehoods and half-truths were spread by multiple news sources, and some were propagated by dozens. 1: Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss An Associated Press article published by PBS in December claimed that “climate change” is making […] -
Life, Liberty, Property #127: Is There No Escaping the Entitlement Trap?
Opinion -The failure of both the Democrat and Republican plans for extending or partially replacing the enhanced Obamacare subsidies last Thursday shows just how rare and difficult it is for politicians and taxpayers to escape the entitlement trap. -
Almost half of Gen Z wants AI to run the government. You should be terrified.
Opinion -The rising generation is ready to hand power to machines programmed by activists. -
Life, Liberty, Property #125: Trump’s Pivot Could Make Health Care Affordable Again
Opinion -Trump’s statement was surprising because it marked a pivot toward a new perspective on health care reform: cash as king. That new approach could make health care affordable again. -
Life, Liberty, Property #124: Solving the Affordability Problem
Opinion -Support for socialism among young Americans is increasing in reaction to the high cost of housing and other essentials, reports a new poll by The Heartland Institute’s Glenn C. Haskins Emerging Issues Center and Rasmussen Reports. -
Life, Liberty, Property #123: New York State of Confusion
Opinion -“Mr. Mamdani is asking for a lot,” report Grace Ashford and Benjamin Oreskes at The New York Times. Mamdani will need enormous tax increases to cover his ambitious plans. -
Life, Liberty, Property #122: WSJ Article Finds Sanity in Trump’s Economic Policies
Opinion -Editorial -It is interesting that The Wall Street Journal published a very fair and sophisticated analysis of Trump’s economic policies last week. -
Life, Liberty, Property #121: Government Shutdowns and Political Polarization
Opinion -Editorial -The ongoing government shutdown, now in day 20, lays bare the increasingly acute political polarization of the United States. -
Life, Liberty, Property #120: Trump Versus Antifa
Opinion -Editorial -Less than a month after declaring Antifa a domestic terror organization, President Donald Trump told the press he intends to designate the group as a foreign terror organization. -
Life, Liberty, Property #119: Trump’s Academic Gambit
Opinion -Editorial -The Trump administration announced on Wednesday a proposed agreement with American universities to implement campus policy reforms in exchange for preferential treatment in the distribution of federal funding. -
Life, Liberty, Property #118: Another Shutdown Showdown
Opinion -Editorial -All signs now point toward the Federal Reserve (Fed) beginning a program of lowering interest rates, though cautiously and with no guarantees of continuation. -
Life, Liberty, Property #117: Fed Interest Rate Cut Remains on the Table
Opinion -All signs now point toward the Federal Reserve (Fed) beginning a program of lowering interest rates, though cautiously and with no guarantees of continuation. -
Life, Liberty, Property #116: Young Adults Losing Faith in America, Free Markets, Poll Finds
Opinion -A majority of young voters want a socialist to win the 2028 presidential election, and more than three-quarters want government to nationalize major U.S. industries, a new poll from The Heartland Institute and the Rasmussen group has found. -
Heartland/Rasmussen Poll: 53% of Young Voters Want a Socialist to Win the 2028 Presidential Election, 76% Want Government to Nationalize Major U.S. Industries
Opinion -Press Release -53% of likely voters aged 18-39 said they would “like to see a democratic socialist candidate win the 2028 presidential election.”
