Cop Candor, Part II: ‘Too Often, In Too Many Courtrooms . . .’
I’m told we’re supposed to respect cops. Aren’t cops supposed to respect us?
Tagged: Chicago
Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
A Brutal Chicago Winter, Global Warming, and Just Weather
I’m not so vain to believe this season’s anomalies in Chicago and elsewhere prove a given climate theory. Weather does not equal climate — though that is what the alarmists always say.
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Featured · Politics · Speaker Series
Heartland Author Series Feb 11: Tevi Troy – What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched and Obama Tweeted
Join us for a luncheon lecture with author and presidential scholar Tevi Troy, who will talk about his new book, “What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched and Obama Tweeted: 200 Years of Popular Culture in the White House.”
Bitter Cold Blasts Chicago, a City Fighting Climate Change
Keep up the good work, Chicago. With the ample snow and bitter cold, your efforts to fight global warming appear to be working!
Economics · Featured · Liberty · Random · Taxes
Barack Obama and the Meaning of Socialism
Barack Obama is finishing his fifth year as president, and continues to try to move America further in the direction of increased government paternalism with the implementation of ObamaCare, a push for a higher minimum wage, more intrusive business regulation, a drive for higher taxes to redistribute wealth, and a persistent insistence that individuals must sacrifice their own interests for that of “society.”
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Podcast
Heartland Daily Podcast: Mike LaFaive- Illinois Could Be Number One in Cigarette Smuggling
In this podcast, Mike LaFaive of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy discusses in greater detail his article on the Heartlander titled “A Tax Hike Al Capone Could Have Loved”. In[...]
Featured · Government · Liberty · Regulation
The Nanny State Can Get You Killed
New York, Los Angeles, Chicago Move to Restrict Devices that Help Smokers Quit
Environment/Energy · Featured · Random
Heartland Experts Reject Obama’s Climate Action At Chicago EPA Hearing
Why the concern over President Obama’s Executive Orders? It is human nature that desensitization will creep in as related to frequency, making felt outrage over each successive mandate seem less intense or serious. The result: executive orders are likely to become more frequent and increasingly more extreme in their content in the absence of any serious push back to reign them in.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics · Uncategorized
Pullman National Park? You’ve Gotta be Kidding
Crain’s recently published“Pullman inching closer to national park status,” an article detailing plans by Illinois Sens. Dick Durbin and Mark Kirk and Rep. Robin Kelly of Chicago to introduce a bill to make Chicago’s Pullman neighborhood a national park. They and local supporters say a national park designation could “bring much-needed funds and development to the neighborhood.”
Internet/Telecom · Uncategorized
Book Review: GPS Declassified – From Smart Bombs to Smartphones
GPS Declassified is a carefully researched, well written, fast-paced and thoroughly enjoyable book. It offers an excellent mix of science, technology, history and culture.
Featured · Politics · Regulation
Screaming Murder
As we have come to learn, the facts never stop President Obama from using every murder to advance his agenda to strip Americans of their guns.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
Heartlanders at EPA Hearing in Chicago: Reject Obama’s Climate Action Plan
The EPA’s proposed rules will kill jobs, shut down factories, companies and industries – and devastate families and communities that depend on coal mining, factory jobs and affordable energy.
Heartland’s Author Series: Mark Q. Rhoads
Land of Lincoln: Thy Wondrous Story reminds us that there’s no time like the present for students and Illinois citizens to immerse themselves in the rich history of our state.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Taxes
Heartland’s John Nothdurft on Fox 32; On the Proposed Cigarette Tax Increase
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is proposing to increase the city’s cigarette tax by $.75 a pack, which would raise the combined local and state tax rate to $7.42 a pack- the highest in the nation. The video above, by Fox 32, features the Heartland Institute’s John Nothdurft and his brief, yet powerful, opinion on the proposed tax increase.
Driving Alone Dominates 2007-2012 Commuting Trend
New data from the American Community Survey makes it possible to review the trend in mode of access to employment in the United States over the past five years. This[...]
Environment/Energy · Featured · Science
Don’t Let the Left Define “Environment”
I live in the best environmental conditions in the history of mankind. Even in Chicago, my air and water is far cleaner than the air and water used by cavemen[...]
A Tale of Red and Blue
No one’s liberty or property is safe when the legislature is in session, and freedom is lost one government program at a time. Yet some people will trade freedom for comfort, especially when they perceive that someone else is footing the bill.
Featured · Politics · Regulation
The Eastland And The Titanic
Today, 98 years ago, one of Chicago’s worst disasters was created by government “solutions” to nonexistent problems.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Media · Politics · Science
‘The Science is Settled’ is a Mirage
There is an encyclopedic amount of peer-reviewed literature challenging CAGW.
Featured · Legal Affairs · Politics
Courts Should Treat Gun Rights as Liberally as Abortion Rights
Why should unduly burdensome regulations that place obstacles in the path of those looking to exercise one right be struck down while equally burdensome regulations that infringe on another right are upheld?
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- Competition, disruptive innovation, and men's razors
- Althouse: The Clinton White House "conspiracy commerce memo" warned, in 1995, that "THE INTERNET... allows an extraordinary amount of unregulated data and information to be located in one area and available to all."
- The Epic Hypocrisy of Tom Steyer
- Competition, Rent-Seeking, and High-Frequency Trading
