Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
Trofim Lysenko became the Director of the Soviet Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences in the 1930s under Josef Stalin. He was an advocate of the theory that characteristics acquired[...]
Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics
In honor of Margaret Thatcher’s memory, favorite quotes from the Iron Lady have popped up everywhere. This one came across my Facebook newsfeed: “Global warming ‘provides a marvelous excuse for[...]
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[...]
If history holds, President Obama’s second term will be marked by fewer legislative achievements, more gridlock, and more contentious ideological division than his first. It is hard to see how[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Health Care · Politics
[First posted at Forbes.] Steve Moore begins his brilliant new book, Who’s the Fairest of Them All? The Truth About Opportunity, Taxes and Wealth In America, quoting President Obama saying: We’ve sought[...]
Economics · Environment/Energy · Politics
After sifting through the detritus of the recent national and statewide elections, it is almost comical, though sad, to see the state of California in full lemming mode preparing to[...]
The following is the speech I delievered at the “Yes, We Did Build It Rally” on September 22, 2012 in Waukesha, Wisconsin: Watch the speech below. The transcript follows. Thank[...]
[First posted at Forbes.] President Obama started his Democratic Convention nomination acceptance speech with one overriding truth: “But when all is said and done – when you pick up that[...]
Environment/Energy · Politics · Regulation
(Originally posted at The American Spectator.) What would you do if gangs of robbers roamed your neighborhood at night, breaking into your neighbors’ houses and stealing their family jewels and[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · FIRE · Liberty · Regulation · Taxes
Last week in the New York Times, economist Paul Krugman called for higher taxes than the Clinton era, citing how increased revenues need to be in the picture and not[...]
President Obama has failed to learn the simple basic lesson that the Pilgrims, who established the tradition of Thanksgiving Day in 1623 (not 1621, as often claimed), learned the hard[...]
Economics · Liberty · Media · Politics · Regulation
In 1979, the great economist Milton Friedman — a friend of The Heartland Institute — was a guest on Phil Donahue’s syndicated talk show. This was in the latter stages[...]
The folks over at Powerline Blog have an insightful post on the mindset of our current president. It comes by way of Bobby Jindal’s book, “Leadership and Crisis,” where Jindal[...]
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