Diane Carol Bast
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FeaturedHealth Care
Long-Term Care … or the Things You Think About When Retirement Looms
by Diane Carol Bast August 17, 2017Among the things one thinks about, or should think about, as retirement looms is long-term care… and perhaps more importantly when you’re in your 50s, long-term care insurance.
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Last night, The Heartland Institute’s “movie night” featured The Call of the Entrepreneur, a beautifully filmed tribute to entrepreneurship and the essential role it plays in securing the blessings of…
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I may never understand what it is about the global warming debate that causes people I presume are perfectly reasonable and civil in many aspects of their daily lives to…
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Environment/Energy
What Do Students Learn from a Guy Like This?
by Diane Carol Bast September 22, 2014I received another one of those remarkable emails this morning. You know, the kind that make you wonder about the people teaching at universities these days. Geoffrey Clay Godfrey, apparently…
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Liberals focus on happy thoughts? Really?
by Diane Carol Bast April 9, 2014Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass, whose writing I commend heartily to readers of Somewhat Reasonable, this morning called my attention to some fascinating research reported recently in Mother Jones. It…
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I’m no economist. But I was annoyed by a recent article in the Chicago Tribune reporting a new federal survey of hospital prices. I wanted Tribune readers to think a…
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As most of you know, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has been doing some amazing things with respect to public-sector unions. Heartland President Joe Bast and I both are Wisconsinites, and…
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Budgets/TaxesPolitics
Will Scott Walker Bring ‘Good-Paying’ Jobs to Wisconsin?
by Diane Carol Bast August 17, 2011I’ve been carrying on conversations with family members in Wisconsin (yes, I’m a born-and-raised cheesehead) concerning Gov. Scott Walker’s budget reform measures. Most of my family agrees with what he…
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Environment/Energy
Forecasting Expert Challenges NYT’s Paul Krugman on Climate Change
by Diane Carol Bast April 11, 2011The New York Times published, online and in its print edition, the following letter to the editor concerning climate change by forecasting expert J. Scott Armstrong, whose testimony before a…
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Environment/Energy
Joseph Fletcher, Ph.D. Discusses Climate Change
by Diane Carol Bast March 24, 2011Gary Sharp, scientific director for the Center for Climate/Ocean Resources Study in Salinas, California, introduces this lecture on climate change by Joseph Fletcher, Ph.D. Dr. Fletcher, who died on July…