Today’s Wall Street Journal has a Page 1 story titled “U.S. Ups Ante for Spying on Firms,” describing how “top administration officials” are promising to get tough on hacking and the[...]
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Environment/Energy · Liberty · Politics
Panic at the German Disco Over Heartland’s Latest Climate Conference
Pierre Gosselin has carved out a unique niche in the climate blogging arena with his NoTricksZone blog, which brings “climate news from Germany in English.” Gosselin wrote about how The[...]
Mark Twain on the Anti-Smoking Police
Today’s Wall Street Journal reprinted a delightful five-paragraph excerpt from a 1893 essay by Mark Twain titled “The Moral Statistician.” It is worth a few minutes of attention because it[...]
Critique of PBS Frontline’s ‘Climate of Doubt’
PBS aired a “Frontline” episode last night titled “Climate of Doubt.” The show’s producer (but not the host, John Hockenberry) attended Heartland’s Seventh International Conference on Climate Change in May,[...]
The Morality of Capitalism: If It Feels Good, Do It
Heartland’s CEO Joe Bast spoke recently at the “Yes, We Did Build It” rally in Waukesha, Wisconsin, sponsored by the Citizens for Responsible Government. (That’s Wisconsin Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, at[...]
Why We Need Debate, Not Consensus, on Climate Change
The president of The Heartland Institute replies to Fred Krupp’s Wall Street Journal essay. Dear Fred, I read your August 7 opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal, “A New[...]
Environment/Energy · Media · Science
Joe Bast Responds to Climate Etc. post titled ‘Heartburn at Heartland’
Dr. Curry, Thanks for reproducing in your recent post my account of the left’s attacks on our scientists and donors. It’s a story that isn’t getting nearly enough attention in[...]
Henry Lamb, RIP
I learned from Ron Arnold today that Henry Lamb has passed away. Another leader of the freedom movement has left us. Henry was one of the first conservative opponents of[...]
Environment/Energy · Legal Affairs
New Evidence Released in Fakegate Global Warming Scandal
The Heartland Institute today released more evidence that Pacific Institute President Peter Gleick was the likely author of a fake “climate strategy memo” that Gleick originally claimed came from a[...]
Joe Bast at CPAC on the Brian Wilson Show — Talking Parent Trigger
. The Heartland Institute was at CPAC last week, where we all had a great time spreading the gospel of liberty — even if yours truly came back with the[...]
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- There's No Such Thing as 'Good Government' | Cato @ Liberty
- The American Spectator: Being (Saved by) John Malkovich
- Bush Wasn’t a Conservative and Obama Isn’t a Liberal | The Beacon
- IRS Tea Party Intimidation An Echo Of Raids On Gibson Guitar - Investors.com
- The Real Lesson of the IRS Scandal | Hoover Institution
- Firefly & Lessons in Contract Law | The Legal Geeks
