Book Review: The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
“Epstein explains in philosophical terms how the public has been duped by the likes of Paul Ehrlich, John Holdren, Amory Lovins, and Bill McKibben for decades. Their real agenda has[…]
Author: Jay Lehr
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured
Book Review: The Impending Monetary Revolution, the Dollar and Gold
In my opinion, this book ranks among those written by Adam Smith, Frederick Bastiat, and Ludwig Von Mises. Understanding Contoski’s message will make a reader a more effective participant in the fight to fix our country’s flawed economic policies.
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U.S. Economy Leads the World While Europe Struggles, China Falters
Policy analysts and pundits alike seem to enjoy downplaying the U.S. economy’s recovery since the recession of 2008/9. It is time for them to wake up and smell the roses: The U.S. economy clearly is the dominant economy of the world. The European Union’s death rattle continues, while China is encountering a litany of unforeseen problems.
The Other Side of the Global Warming Story
Many readers will surely agree with me that Hotchkiss launched us into successful and fulfilling careers, mine as a scientist, physicist and engineer continues actively 60 years past graduation. Among my specialties has been the study of climate, present, past and future, ever since the 1970s when the popular press was warning of an advancing ice age, and on into the 90s when global warming took over with unsubstantiated anecdotal evidence and mathematical models.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
Uncovering Deceptions in the Climate Change Debate
“The Deliberate Corruption of Climate Science” is a history of the people and groups who used unwarranted fear of human-caused climate change to undermine science by influencing governments and the private sector to spend vast sums of money on scientists who agreed to climb aboard the global warming gravy train.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Liberty
Book Review: Energy Freedom by Marita Noon
If you are looking for a book that will fully explain why affordable, reliable energy is absolutely crucial to our social and economic well-being, Energy Freedom by Marita Littauer Noon is the book for you.
Budgets/Taxes · Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics
New UN Climate Report Ignores Reality
Given the IPCC’s history of repeated and frequent mistakes, it’s perfectly clear that they are a political organization, not a scientific one.
Featured · Health Care · Science
Book Review: ‘Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death’
Katy Butler argues for public support to bring society back to a better way to die and offers an excellent road map toward success. This is an outstanding book for anyone who believes that death is inevitable.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
Book Review: ‘Taxing Air: Facts and Fallacies about Climate Change’
This is the very best book I have seen for those seeking a clear understanding of the realities of the earth’s climate — and is a remedy for the amazing fallacies spread daily by those who wish to make political gains by plying the public with unscientific misinformation.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Regulation · Science
It’s Time to Restore EPA’s Original Purpose
A turning point occurred roughly a decade after the creation of EPA. Activist groups realized the agency could be used to alter our government by coming down heavily on all human activities regardless of their impact on the environment.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
Book Review — Climate Change: Natural or Manmade?
Fone presents a compelling narrative of why the mythical human-caused global warming crisis is a dangerous illusion. I highly recommend this book.
Cooling Looms as Earth’s True Climate Calamity
Although we have been enmeshed in a long debate over global warming and climate change, this controversy has been politically motivated, not a response to actual global warming, as there[…]
Why Obama Will Probably Kill the Keystone Pipeline
Heartland’s Jay Lehr predicts Obama will ultimately reject the Keystone XL pipeline. But that will not slow development of Canada’s tar sands, a supposed goal of the environmental activists.
Environment/Energy · Regulation
Bureaucratic Legalese Drying Up the Mississippi River
The continuing drought is wreaking havoc on the ability of the Mississippi River to function as one of our nation’s primary commercial arteries. If water levels continue to fall, as[…]
Positive Review of ‘2016: Obama’s America’ from an Obama Voter
I reviewed the excellent Dinesh D’Souza movie 2012: Obama’s America the other day on this blog. Raking in about $26 million so far, the film is the second-highest-grossing political documentary of all time,[…]
Obama’s Dream World: A Review of ‘2016, Obama’s America’
Dinesh D’Souza’s new documentary film, 2012: Obama’s America, which tracks his outstanding book The Roots of Obama’s Rage, makes it clear through Barack Obama’s own words and writings and those[…]
Kansas’ Probable Hidden Treasure of Water
What if fresh water like oil was treated as a critical economic resource in 1960? What if billions of dollars had been invested in ground water exploration over the past[…]
Travelogue: Jay Lehr in Singapore
This is Part One of a multi-part series of blog posts from Heartland Science Director Jay Lehr, who is traveling in Southeast Asia this month. I am a poor tourist,[…]
What Agriculture can expect from Washington
In my 50 years of experience with farm legislation there has never been a greater mystery as to what the next 6 year phase of farm support legislation may hold[…]
Heartland Book Review (from One Skydiver to Another) of ‘Above All Else’
As a writer with 30 books in print, I am jealous that I do not think I could ever write a book as wonderful as Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld’s Above All Else.[…]
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