Why Obama Will Probably Kill the Keystone Pipeline
Heartland’s Jay Lehr predicts Obama will ultimately reject the Keystone XL pipeline. But that will not slow development of Canada’s tar sands, a supposed goal of the environmental activists.
Author: Jay Lehr
Environment/Energy · Regulation
Bureaucratic Legalese Drying Up the Mississippi River
The continuing drought is wreaking havoc on the ability of the Mississippi River to function as one of our nation’s primary commercial arteries. If water levels continue to fall, as[...]
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Positive Review of ’2016: Obama’s America’ from an Obama Voter
I reviewed the excellent Dinesh D’Souza movie 2012: Obama’s America the other day on this blog. Raking in about $26 million so far, the film is the second-highest-grossing political documentary of all time,[...]
Obama’s Dream World: A Review of ’2016, Obama’s America’
Dinesh D’Souza’s new documentary film, 2012: Obama’s America, which tracks his outstanding book The Roots of Obama’s Rage, makes it clear through Barack Obama’s own words and writings and those[...]
Kansas’ Probable Hidden Treasure of Water
What if fresh water like oil was treated as a critical economic resource in 1960? What if billions of dollars had been invested in ground water exploration over the past[...]
Travelogue: Jay Lehr in Singapore
This is Part One of a multi-part series of blog posts from Heartland Science Director Jay Lehr, who is traveling in Southeast Asia this month. I am a poor tourist,[...]
What Agriculture can expect from Washington
In my 50 years of experience with farm legislation there has never been a greater mystery as to what the next 6 year phase of farm support legislation may hold[...]
Heartland Book Review (from One Skydiver to Another) of ‘Above All Else’
As a writer with 30 books in print, I am jealous that I do not think I could ever write a book as wonderful as Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld’s Above All Else.[...]
Climate Change and Food Production: A Misunderstood Connection
The world’s food producers are frequently blamed for being responsible for some part of the “greenhouse gas” emissions thought to contribute to global warming, and consequently are targeted for regulations[...]
The Insanity of the EPA Continues
Whenever the EPA or the green movement uses the term, “it’s for the children” as a justification for their legislative and regulatory actions, it is time to look deeper. First,[...]
Angela Merkel’s Nuclear Folly
Once well-known German ingenuity will rapidly morph into German lunacy as Chancellor Angela Merkel takes a machine gun to the feet of German industry by ordering seven of the nation’s[...]
Heartland Book Review: A Little Radiation is Good for You
Charles L. Sanders’ latest book, Radiation Hormesis and the Linear-No-Threshold Assumption, is among the finest scientific research publications I have ever read. There are, believe it or not, 1,470 technical[...]
Education · Environment/Energy · Politics
Heartland Book Review: ‘Now Tell Me I Was Wrong’
If you enjoy reading outstanding prose on political, scientific and medical dilemmas, Now Tell Me I Was Wrong is a treasure trove of enjoyable reading by Tom Deweese, one of our[...]
Political Correctness Keeps Fukushima Water Out of the Ocean
In efforts to keep the fear factor high in Japan as radioactive gases from the damaged Fukushima power plants subsides, the focus has moved to the radioactive water that is flowing[...]
Fukushima, Chernobyl, Mayak (Never Heard of It?): Health Dangers Greatly Exaggerated
If you’ve never heard of the Soviet Union’s first serious nuclear disaster called “Mayak,” we’ll get to that later. But first, I must point out that from the start of[...]
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