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A Lawless Administration: Andrew McCarthy at the Heartland Institute
by John Engle June 12, 2014Author and former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy joined the Heartland Institute on June 12th to talk about his new book, Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment, with a packed and lively crowd of Heartland supporters. McCarthy was incisive and exceptionally convincing.
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Stand Your Ground, Post-Trayvon Martin America, You’re Not Racist
by Peter Ferrara July 25, 2013Martin’s life and death would be honored by promotion of racial harmony and good will.
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The Zimmerman Trial Has Become a Rhetorical Circus
by Ralf Mangual July 12, 2013How exactly Roxanne Jones can get away with saying that George Zimmerman is a “murderer” without his having been convicted by a jury of his peers is perhaps a manifestation of the decaying state of the public discourse.
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Skilling Resentencing: The Other Side of the Story
by Jim Johnston July 11, 2013The reaction to the Skilling sentence reduction has been almost uniformly negative. That is regrettable because there were serious problems with Skilling’s conviction.
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Chicago-Based Heartland Institute Reacts to Blagojevich Guilty Verdicts
by Jim Lakely June 27, 2011Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich was found guilty today on 17 of 20 counts in his corruption trial in federal court. Maureen Martin, senior fellow for legal affairs at Heartland,…