Joseph Morris

As you may have seen in the national news over the past week, State-by-State scores on  the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) — what the media like to call the “Nation’s Report Card” — are the worst they’ve been in 30 years.

Midge Decter loved America. She took religion seriously, and advocated tirelessly for its place in the public square.

I am reliably informed that Vladimir Putin has a Twitter account and that Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of only 22 Tweeters whom Putin follows.

Putin aims to reassert Russia’s domination of the Eurasian land-mass and to diminish the influence, prestige, and power of the United States.

May the memory of Jim Tobin always be as a blessing to us all.

Minnesota appellate decision is a triumph for common sense and for science over politics-masquerading-as science.

The death of Dick Thornburgh is a sad matter for all who knew him, and marks the loss by the American people of a conscientious public servant.  May his memory always be as a blessing.

It is my hope, and I am sure that it is yours, that the Heartland Institute’s 37th year, which starts today, will be one leading to the broad, sunlit uplands of human liberty, attainment of which has been, and remains, Heartland’s goal.

I had the privilege of knowing her personally and arguing cases in front of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Adam Smith was born on this day in 1723.

National Nurses Week begins each year on May 6th and ends on Florence Nightingale’s birthday, May 12th.

As the philosopher Rahm Emanuel once said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.”

Elizabeth Bartholet’s primary target for the last 20 years has been parental rights in all fields, especially in education.