February 1st was National Freedom Day. It commemorates Lincoln’s signing of the House and Senate resolution that later became the 13th Amendment. Lincoln signed the Amendment outlawing slavery on February 1, 1865.[...]
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‘Tis is Still the Season for Giving to These Groups, All Through 2014
Along with the Holiday Season are inspirations that good citizens need to return gifts to benefit those less fortunate. From my activities, it is easy to find areas for donations that help the poor cope with expenses of energy use.
Education · Featured · Podcast
Heartland Daily Podcast: Balancing Act of an Orthodox Christian School
Mary Najarrian, principal of Saint John of San Francisco Orthodox Academy in San Francisco, joins The Heartland Institute for a podcast about how an orthodox school balances conflict and education.
Economics · Featured · Liberty · Random · Taxes
Barack Obama and the Meaning of Socialism
Barack Obama is finishing his fifth year as president, and continues to try to move America further in the direction of increased government paternalism with the implementation of ObamaCare, a push for a higher minimum wage, more intrusive business regulation, a drive for higher taxes to redistribute wealth, and a persistent insistence that individuals must sacrifice their own interests for that of “society.”
Featured · Government · Random · Regulation
Are America’s Best Days Really Ahead?
America 3.0: Rebooting American Prosperity in the 21st Century tells the story of our nation’s government as crushingly expensive, one that is failing at its basic functions and unable to keep its promises. Such an unworkable and out-of-control government cannot continue as the status quo.
Featured · Government · Liberty · Regulation
Thanksgiving Day 2013
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
Thanksgiving as the Birth of American Free Enterprise
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.
Economics · Government · Liberty · Random
Giving Thanks for the Right to Retail
Retail stores are opening even earlier than usual for their annual Black Friday sales this year, in an intensifying competition for scarce consumer dollars. Big retailers such as Target, Kohl’s, Macy’s, Best Buy, Sears, and Toys R Us will open Thursday night and feature “doorbuster” bargains to lure tryptophan-laden customers into their emporia (if they can fit through the doors).
Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics · Regulation
It’s Time for ‘Zero for Zero’ Farm Subsidies
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
TV Anticompetitiveness, A La Carte
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
Stopping Common Core is Only the Beginning
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
The Battle for Economic and Energy Freedom
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
Heartland Institute Experts React to NSA Obtaining Phone Records of Millions of Americans
“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
Remembering D-Day the Right Way, and Decrying Remembrances Through Today’s MSM Prism
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[...]
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