Competitive Enterprise Institute
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May Free Speech Reign and Scientific Inquiry Prevail
by Marita Noon July 6, 2016Throughout the past four years, climate change activists have been secretly coordinating with one another regarding ways to prosecute individuals, organizations, and companies that are their ideological foes. They met to develop a strategy to use RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act), which was intended to provide stronger weapons for prosecuting organized crime, against those who speak out against the Obama administration’s war on fossil fuels.
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In The Tank Podcast (ep40): Fixing Income Inequality, CON Laws, Telemedicine, and Nutritional Labeling
by Donald Kendal May 27, 2016John and Donny continue their exploration of think tanks in #40 of the In The Tank Podcast. This weekly podcast features (as always) interviews, debates, and roundtable discussions that explore the work of think tanks across the country. The show is available for download as part of the Heartland Daily Podcast every Friday. Today’s podcast features work from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the John Locke Foundation, the Palmetto Promise Institute, and the Mercatus Center.
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Heartland Daily Podcast – Kent Lassman: CEI Subpoenaed on Climate Change Dissent
by H. Sterling Burnett May 4, 2016In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Kent Lassman, President of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), joins host H. Sterling Burnett to discuss the subpoena CEI were served by the Virgin Islands Attorney General in an attempt to intimidate CEI into silence on climate issues.
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InsideClimate News = Inside Climate Propaganda
by Paul Driessen May 1, 2016This collusion among activists, foundations and attorneys general seeks to silence, bankrupt and defund organizations that challenge their catechism of climate cataclysm. These conspirators want to deprive us of our constitutional rights to speak out on the exaggerated and fabricated science, the coordinated echo- chamber news stories, and the pressure group-driven policies that impair our livelihoods, living standards, health, welfare and environmental quality. We will not be intimidated or silenced.
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Naomi Klein, The Heartland Institute, and Are We Blind, Too?
by Joe Bast August 31, 2015Klein’s greatest strength is recognizing that nothing less than the abolition of capitalism will achieve the drastic reductions in emissions her side is calling for … and she’s willing to say it out loud. I love that about her. The leaders of the environmental movement, who pretend this isn’t about ideology and that “stopping” climate change would be costless, hate her for revealing this.
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Celebrate Progressive Human Achivement Hour, Reject Regressive Earth Hour
by James H. Rust March 28, 2015Earth Hour wants you to live like the people in the 17th century — dying young, starving, working yourself to death with manual labor, etc. Humans were not meant to live that way. Thank God humans learned how to not live that way. Let’s not go back.
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Heartland Daily Podcast: Verizon vs. FCC and the Future of Net Neutrality
by Jim Lakely January 18, 2014Supporters of a vibrant and innovative digital economy dodged a bullet in the Verizon vs. FCC decision. But one gets the feeling it won’t be for long.
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Dismantling the Regulatory State is a Good Place to Start
by Nancy Thorner January 18, 2014Every presidential administration issues rules and regulations, but President Obama and his administration head the pack.
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Budgets/TaxesEnvironment/EnergyFeatured
Al Gore, DiCaprio AWOL as Fisker Circles the Drain
by Paul Chesser April 2, 2013Fisker is fizzling, and the words of Gore, DiCaprio, and Kleiner Perkins still hang in the air.