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Budgets/TaxesEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
In The Tank (ep115) – The Left’s Anti-Human Population Engineering Plan, and Tax Reform
by Donald Kendal November 17, 2017John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #115 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features input from Director of Communications Jim Lakely, Director of Publications Sam Karnick, as well as work from the Tax Foundation.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Dr. Ted Them: Debunking the “Negative Health Impacts” of Fracking
by Isaac Orr August 15, 2016Does fracking make people sick? In this edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Dr. Ted Them and research fellow Isaac Orr discuss the scientific research that has attempted to determine if there are health impacts due to hydraulic fracturing. Dr. Them debunks the claims of Dr. Howard Zucker, the Commissioner of the New York Department of Health who’s recommendation to the Governor resulted in New York banning hydraulic fracturing.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Playing Both ‘Cops and Robbers’ on Asset Forfeiture
by Jesse Hathaway June 22, 2016A new digital system unveiled by Oklahoma government police is just the latest example of civil asset forfeiture laws encouraging cops to become the robbers they’re supposed to be catching.
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Legislators have long attempted to reduce the negative health impacts of smoking through taxes, bans, and regulations. Some have tried to extend these same policies to electronic cigarettes or “e-cigarettes,” even though they contain no tobacco and are substantially less harmful than traditional cigarettes. This week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) unveiled new regulations placing electronic cigarettes under an avalanche of new rules requiring that they be approved as a new type of tobacco product — effectively treating them like traditional cigarettes.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
This Year’s Presidential Politics Equals Continuing Big Government
by Richard Ebeling March 29, 2016The daily and unending bombardment of political campaign reporting and news, with its “drama” about who will be the Republican and Democratic Party candidates for the U.S. presidency, hides from view the continuing and real choice facing the American public: freedom or statism, individual liberty or government control.
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The Network for Public Education (NPE), an anti-educational choice organization, released a new publication titled “Valuing Public Education: A 50 State Report Card,” which, distressingly, many media outlets are reporting as an honest-to-goodness objective study, instead of the piece of subjective advocacy it truly is.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Renewable Energy’s Growth Threatens the Power Supply
by H. Sterling Burnett February 1, 2016Based on the best available scientific evidence, it is highly unlikely continued fossil fuel use will result in catastrophic changes to Earth’s climate or will cause harm to humans or the environment. Despite the available evidence, governments in the United States and other industrialized nations seem intent on pushing the development and use of politically favored renewable energy sources, particularly wind and solar power, through the use of subsidies and mandates.
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This year, 2016, will mark the twentieth-fifth anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union from the political map of the world. A quarter of a century ago, the menace of Soviet-led communism, which had haunted the globe since the time of the Russian Revolution in 1917, disintegrated from within and passed into the dustbin of history.
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EducationFeatured
Community Schools are Not Just a Fantasy! – Part 2
by Nancy Thorner and Bonnie O'Neil September 21, 2015Our first major clues of the changes our president had in mind were evident in those he chose for his cabinet. Victor Davis Hanson mentioned some of Obama’s questionable liberal choices in an article that described the “worst of the worst.” However, he missed Arnie Duncan, Secretary of Education, who ushered in the controversial Common Core Standards.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Scott Sumner: The Recent Volatility of the Stock Market
by Jesse Hathaway August 27, 2015In today’s episode of The Heartland Daily Podcast, managing editor Jesse Hathaway talks with Mercatus Center monetary policy program director and Bentley University economics professor Scott Sumner about the American stock market’s recent up-and-down volatility, the increasing threat of an international economic recession, and how our country’s centralized banking policies make the problem worse.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
A Congresswoman Demands Peace, Love and Big Brother Internet, Man
by Seton Motley July 14, 2015Democrat Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) just penned an editorial for the San Francisco Chronicle. That has the patchouli whiff of her writing while sitting at the corner of Haight and Ashbury – in August 1968. It is warmed-over Hippie-Dippie, Flower Power, Socialist nonsense.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Utah State Rep. Ken Ivory: Public Land Usage
by H. Sterling Burnett June 25, 2015In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, H. Sterling Burnett, managing editor of Environment & Climate News speaks with Ken Ivory. Ivory is a Utah state representative and president of the American Lands Council. Ivory and Burnett discuss public land usage.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Net Neutrality Hits – The Media Misses, Badly
by Seton Motley June 16, 2015When a Tech Media story crosses over to the broader Jurassic Press – their ridiculous Leftist repetitiveness is truly comical. And highly disquieting. On Friday, President Barack Obama’s huge Internet Network Neutrality power grab officially went into effect. A crossover story – with predictable, pathetic Press results.