Environment/Energy · Featured · Taxes
Earlier this month, Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick announced that his state reached the goal of 250 megawatts of installed solar energy capacity. “When we set ambitious goals and invest in[...]
The sudden deluge of scandal which dominates the discussion around President Obama’s administration at the moment has handed a golden opportunity to Republicans. Yet if they aren’t careful, they’ll squander[...]
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Media
It’s hard to be a “public interest” group when private interests better serve the public. Free Press, which effectively defines the “public interest” as being against private interests in media, communications[...]
Suffice it to say that – four decades after Watergate – nothing much has changed when it comes to the abuse of Executive Branch power, and the famous dictum of Lord Acton remains true: power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
Uber, a tech start-up and on-demand transportation service, is under attack by anti-innovation regulation in Washington DC.
Economics · Featured · Health Care · Politics
As HSAs and similar plans have soared in the private market, health spending growth has plummeted. That is the result of market competition and incentives.
The reason that only one Black advocate has come before the Supreme Court since October is not racism – it’s simply that there aren’t many Black lawyers in America to begin with.
Environment/Energy · Featured · FIRE
P&C insurers stand to make more profits if they exaggerate the threat of global warming. So they do. Is New York Times reporter Eduardo Porter just stupid?
Do you believe, as this administration wants you to, that our leaders don’t have a clue as to what is happening unless it appears as a trending topic on twitter? [...]
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Health Care · Podcast
Host Steve Stanek interviews Dr. Keith Kantor, CEO of Service Foods, about whether or not the IRS should continue its major role in administrating Obamacare. Revelations that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative, libertarian, and constitutionalist[...]
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The Minnesota Legislature may have finally agreed on how much solar power the state should be forced to use. According to Minnesota Public Radio, The Minnesota House and Senate have[...]
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Media
It has been a difficult time for newspapers. The industry has experienced serious challenges due to multiple factors going back at least to the early 1960s when the three major[...]
Environment/Energy · Featured · Liberty · Regulation
No wonder the national debt is at nearly $17 trillion—and ticking higher every day. Polls repeatedly show most Americans believe that reducing the budget deficit should be a top priority,[...]
The likelihood an innocent person will be injured or killed with a so-called ‘assault weapon’ is slim by any standard – let alone the standard that should be met before interfering with the freedoms of American citizens.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
Just about every type of extreme weather event is becoming less frequent and less severe in recent years as our planet continues its modest warming in the wake of the[...]
In what is perhaps the heyday of government overreach, the Constitution is still fighting for us, serving one of its most important purposes – protecting the liberty of the few against the tyranny of the many.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Media · Science
There is abundant evidence that global warming alarmism is false, but the Minneapolis Star-Tribune won’t print it. Heartland will, with data and charts to prove it.
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