Featured · Government · Liberty · Regulation
We are grateful for many things on this Thanksgiving Day, but we are especially grateful for the freedom we still enjoy in America to vigorously advocate these principles and to espouse our perspectives and policy prescriptions. And, we are grateful that, if you differ, you still enjoy the same freedom
Featured · Liberty · Random · Uncategorized
This time of the year, whether in good economic times or bad, is when Americans gather with their families and friends and enjoy a Thanksgiving meal together. It marks a remembrance of those early Pilgrim Fathers who crossed the uncharted ocean from Europe to make a new start in Plymouth, Massachusetts. What is less appreciated is that Thanksgiving also is a celebration of the birth of free enterprise in America.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics · Regulation
When it comes to the Farm Bill, we’ve been doing what hurts for fifty-plus years. Let’s not do that anymore.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Media · Regulation
Senators McCain and Blumenthal are co-sponsoring a misnamed piece of legislation, the Television Consumer Freedom Act of 2013, which aims to curb expensive cable bundles.
Education · Featured · Liberty
Common Core is an outgrowth of the big business-big government consensus that dominates education and, because the mainstream education system reaches virtually every future voting citizen, is increasingly dominating every area of our lives.
Economics · Environment/Energy · Featured · Liberty
We have the ability to produce, sell, and use our own resources, which could drive prosperity and allow the economy to thrive—energy freedom.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Legal Affairs · Liberty
“George Bush may have started a war on terror, and Barack Obama may be speaking of eventually ending it, but it’s already over. The terrorists have won.” — Steve Stanek
Featured · Liberty · Media · Politics
Along with July 4, 1776, December 7, 1941 — and perhaps, someday, Barack Obama’s Birthday — June 6, 1944, will long be remembered as one of the most important and[...]
Education · Liberty · Politics
I delivered the following remarks on February 23, 2013 at the Eighth Annual Wisconsin Conservative Conference, Bluemound Gardens, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Thank you for the introduction, thank you all for being[...]
The Washington Post’s John Feinstein — one of the great real sports journalists in America — used the latest, scandalous developments in the NCAA’s investigation of the University of Miami[...]
In a blog I used to write for regularly before joining Heartland, I used to specialize in take-downs of Peggy Noonan. Bless her heart, but she never really got Barack Obama, and[...]
As usual, the great folks at ReasonTV take a logical, revealing and eye-roll-inducing look at dogma. This time, they decided to probe exactly how “pro-choice” some attendees of the Democratic[...]
Health Care · Liberty · Politics
(Reactions to recent events by Harrison Schmitt — Heartland Institute Board member, former U.S. Senator (R-N.M.), and the last man (and first scientist) to set foot on the moon. (Cross-posted at America’s Uncommon Sense): The “Patient Protection[...]
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