Featured · Government · Liberty · Regulation
The Nanny State Can Get You Killed
New York, Los Angeles, Chicago Move to Restrict Devices that Help Smokers Quit
Tagged: Chicago
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?
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · FIRE · Podcast
Heartland Daily Podcast: Stanek and Nothdurft on how TIFS Can Wreck Your City
Ever hear of California’s infamously bankrupt Stockman County? Listen to the podcast and discover how Chicago has 13 municipalities that can top it.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Education · Featured · Liberty · Politics · Taxes
Gov. Scott Walker Urges Conservatives: Make the Moral Case for Smaller Government
“In America, we celebrate our independence from the government, not our dependence on it.”
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Liberty · Politics
With Tens of Millions of Phone Records Grabbed – It’s the Government, Stupid
Because Congress in many areas hasn’t yet addressed the gaping hole of protecting our data from Big Government, we are left exposed and subject to huge, illegal power grabs.
Teacher Disciplined for Telling Kids about Fifth Amendment
From the growing annals of school-led privacy invasions of minors comes this story from a Chicago suburb.
Downsize the Liberals
Washington state is conservative, except for Seattle, which delivers the entire state’s electoral votes for the most left-wing plausible candidate every four years. The same is true of Oregon, except[…]
Heartland’s Joe Bast on Running a Think Tank in the Information Age
Brent Hamachek and Tom Kuchan of Segueway Solutions invited President and CEO of The Heartland Institute, Joe Bast, to speak on their radio show, “Segueway to Success.” They talk about Heartland’s mission, how Heartland[…]
NEWS: The Heartlander- Pennsylvania Governor Reinstitutes State Park, Forest Fracking Ban March 4, 2015
- Where to Follow King v. Burwell At March 4, 2015
- Fracking Wins Again in Colorado March 3, 2015
- All King v. Burwell, All the Time March 3, 2015
- Oregon Lawmaker Proposes Licensing Regulations for Music Therapists March 3, 2015
Heartland on YouTube
The Climate Change Awards
- Readable Links
- The Crucifixion of Dr. Wei-Hock Soon - Breitbart
- Dr. Wei-Hock Soon's Peers Fire Back Against Global Warming Witch Hunt - Breitbart
- Defending Dr. Willie Soon at Breitbart
- Government Tells Gruber Lie to the Supreme Court
- From Internet to Obamanet
- NYT Smears Scientist Willie Soon for Telling the Truth About 'Global Warming' - Breitbart
- FCC's Net Neutrality Proposal Signals the End of an Open Internet - US News
