Donald Kendal
Graphic Designer at The Heartland Institute
Kendal is responsible for the layouts of Heartland’snewspapers and other publications. In addition, Kendal also produces other graphics, designs, and advertisements for Heartland.org. He is also the host of Heartland's “In the Tank Podcast,” uploaded to the Heartland Daily Podcast iTunes feed every Friday.
Latest posts by Donald Kendal (see all)
- In The Tank (ep204) – Climate “Contrarians” Blacklisted? Red Flag Laws - August 16, 2019
- In The Tank (ep203) – Bernie Sanders on Joe Rogan Podcast: A Response - August 9, 2019
- In The Tank (ep202) – Craziest Proposals From Democratic Candidates - August 2, 2019
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Martin Duggan, RIP
Joseph Bast, Somewhat Reasonable
A founder of the school choice movement has passed away. Martin Duggan was a marvelous man who dedicated much of his long life to helping parents enroll their children in schools that would give them a better chance of succeeding in life. Martin will be sorely missed, and our sympathy goes out to his copilot in life, Mae Duggan, along with our sincere thanks to her for sharing Martin with us for all those years. READ MORE
James M. Taylor and Taylor Smith, Heartland Policy Brief
Exelon, whose wholly owned subsidiary, Commonwealth Edison, provides electricity to 70% of Illinois’ residents, is demanding hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies to bail-out its supposedly unprofitable nuclear power plants. Existing renewable power mandates already force expensive power options on Illinois consumers, unnecessarily driving up electricity prices across the state. Why allow another pig to line up at the trough? READ MORE
Emily Zanotti, Somewhat Reasonable
In an almost breath-taking grab for more power than ever before granted to a government bureaucracy in the U.S., EPA is claiming authority over every body of standing water in existence – including drainage ditches, overflow reservoirs, and even potholes in your street. Will Congress finally act to rein in the EPA? READ MORE
Millions of people suffer needlessly and thousand die every year because of the slow and antiquated methods used by the Food and Drug Administration to approve new drugs. FDA has a backlog of around 4,000 new drug applications, many of which won’t become available to needy patience for a decade or longer. In other cases, FDA needlessly forces consumers to pay higher prices to prove a drug that’s been used safely for decades is “actually” safe. LISTEN TO MORE
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James M. Taylor, Forbes
Updated data from NASA satellite instruments reveal Earth’s polar ice caps have not receded at all since the satellite instruments began measuring the ice caps in 1979. This is especially notable when you take into account Al Gore’s prediction of an ice-less arctic cap by the year 2014. READ MORE
Warner Todd Huston, The Heartlander
While it delays approval of potentially life-saving drugs, FDA is moving toward extinguishing the best thing that ever happened to smokers: the emergence of vaping as a less harmful alternative to cigarettes. “In fact, e-cigarettes have become the greatest source of ‘creative destruction’ that we’ve seen against the tobacco industry,” California Polytechnic State University professor of economics Michael L. Marlow said. “But unfortunately, maybe it’s also a source of creative destruction for those who make a living out of tobacco control.” READ MORE
The Heartland Institute’s Tenth International Conference on Climate Change (#ICCC10) will take place Thursday, June 11 and Friday, June 12, 2015 at the Washington Court Hotel in Washington, DC. There is still time to register for tickets at the link above. If you cannot make it in person, you can watch the entire conference live online at Heartland.org. Confirmed speakers include Sen. Jim Inhofe, Rep. Lamar Smith, author Mark Steyn, and some of the leading climate scientists and energy policy experts in the world. SEE WHAT’S NEW
Research Fellow Heather Kays was a guest on the Freedom Works Show on WTAM-AM in Tampa, Florida. Kays and host Paul Malloy talked about parent reactions to actress Lindsay Lohan serving community service in a preschool, whether or not cell phones should be banned in schools, teacher evaluations in Florida, and school choice in Montana. LISTEN TO MORE
Ron Arnold, The Daily Caller
The list of foundations giving Greenpeace oil profits goes on and on, yet Greenpeace goes on and on hypocritically taking oil profits to back campaigns aimed at undermining America’s energy future. This cabal could redeem itself instantly: It could just stop using any fossil fuels right now. READ MORE
Nancy Thorner, Illinois Review
The Heartland Institute’s final Author Series event before moving to its new facility in Arlington Heights featured Larry Schweikart, who along with co-author Michael Allen wrote the newly released 10th anniversary edition of A Patriot’s History of the United States. READ MORE
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