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Government
Chinese-Style Social Credits System a Harbinger of US’s Future?
by Luke Karnick January 3, 2019Could something like China’s social credit system happen in America?
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Budgets/TaxesEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
In The Tank (ep115) – The Left’s Anti-Human Population Engineering Plan, and Tax Reform
by Donald Kendal November 17, 2017John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #115 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features input from Director of Communications Jim Lakely, Director of Publications Sam Karnick, as well as work from the Tax Foundation.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Coming Soon: Internet At The Speed Of Government
by Seton Motley June 29, 2016When government “helps” run something – that something is terrible. The bigger a hand government has in running it – the more terrible it is. If it is exclusively government-run – the terrible-ness is ingrained and inherent. And the longer government runs the show – the worse the terrible-ness becomes.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Playing Both ‘Cops and Robbers’ on Asset Forfeiture
by Jesse Hathaway June 22, 2016A new digital system unveiled by Oklahoma government police is just the latest example of civil asset forfeiture laws encouraging cops to become the robbers they’re supposed to be catching.
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EducationFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Lennie Jarratt: Common Core and its Effect on Homeschooling
by Lennie Jarratt April 6, 2016In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, we listen in as Project Manager for Education Transformation Lennie Jarratt speaks in front of the Great Homeschool Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio. He discusses Common Core and its effect on homeschooling.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
This Year’s Presidential Politics Equals Continuing Big Government
by Richard Ebeling March 29, 2016The daily and unending bombardment of political campaign reporting and news, with its “drama” about who will be the Republican and Democratic Party candidates for the U.S. presidency, hides from view the continuing and real choice facing the American public: freedom or statism, individual liberty or government control.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Randal O’Toole: The Mismanagement of Public Lands
by H. Sterling Burnett March 2, 2016In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Randal O’Toole, economic analyst at the Cato Institute, joins Host H. Sterling Burnett to talk about how the incentive structure facing public lands managers has resulted in mismanagement and the armed conflicts we saw in Nevada and Oregon.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Renewable Energy’s Growth Threatens the Power Supply
by H. Sterling Burnett February 1, 2016Based on the best available scientific evidence, it is highly unlikely continued fossil fuel use will result in catastrophic changes to Earth’s climate or will cause harm to humans or the environment. Despite the available evidence, governments in the United States and other industrialized nations seem intent on pushing the development and use of politically favored renewable energy sources, particularly wind and solar power, through the use of subsidies and mandates.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Rolling Back the Tide of Big Government Overreach
by Marita Noon October 5, 2015The reason most often cited for the success of the nonpolitical candidates is the frustration with Washington; the sense that the system is broken. Voters feel that we have no control and that government has gone wild. Even people who don’t watch the news or closely follow politics are aware of the “overreach.” It seems that, perhaps, the messages the outsiders have been heralding on the trail has caught on.
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EducationFeatured
Community Schools are Not Just a Fantasy! – Part 2
by Nancy Thorner and Bonnie O'Neil September 21, 2015Our first major clues of the changes our president had in mind were evident in those he chose for his cabinet. Victor Davis Hanson mentioned some of Obama’s questionable liberal choices in an article that described the “worst of the worst.” However, he missed Arnie Duncan, Secretary of Education, who ushered in the controversial Common Core Standards.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Environmental Protection Agency Flooded With Lawsuits Over Controversial Water Rule
by Ron Arnold July 23, 2015Twenty-nine states, more than half the stars on the American flag, have filed lawsuits against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for redefining the “Waters of the United States,” or WOTUS, erasing “navigable” and usurping states’ rights by including local seasonal streams, farm irrigation ponds, roadside ditches, and even “connective” dry lands placed under authority of the Clean Water Act.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
A Congresswoman Demands Peace, Love and Big Brother Internet, Man
by Seton Motley July 14, 2015Democrat Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) just penned an editorial for the San Francisco Chronicle. That has the patchouli whiff of her writing while sitting at the corner of Haight and Ashbury – in August 1968. It is warmed-over Hippie-Dippie, Flower Power, Socialist nonsense.
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Featured
After the Power Grabs: Gov Doesn’t Care What Happens to Us – It’s On to the Next Grabs
by Seton Motley June 24, 2015How many times has government royally messed up something? And not fired anyone? Or done anything that remotely resembles improving their performance? Oh so very often. In part because they don’t care – once they have the power, they don’t care what happens to us. In part because they are too busy planning their next grabs.