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Climate ChangeConstitutionEconomicsEnvironment/EnergyGovernmentPolitics
States Sue to Block “Social Cost” of Carbon
by David Wojick March 16, 2021The fundamental absurdity of the Social Cost of Carbon is that it goes out 300 years to get the supposed economic damages due to today’s minor emissions of carbon dioxide.
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ConstitutionEconomicsGovernmentLibertyPolitics
The Political Circus and the Court
by Richard Ebeling October 13, 2020All the opinion polls suggested that the VP debate did little or nothing to change voter decisions
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FeaturedPodcast
In The Tank Podcast (ep49): Platte Institute, Illinois is Broke, and Stadium Subsidies
by Donald Kendal August 2, 2016John returns to the show to join Donny in their weekly exploration of think tanks across the country in episode #49 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 Platte Institute, the Illinois Policy Institute, and the Yankee Institute.
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On the same day FBI Director James Comey was exposing Mrs. Clinton as a serial liar for her actions related to the infamous State Department email scandal, she was buttering up the NEA — the largest teachers union — by telling members they are the cat’s meow of American education.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Jonathan Lockwood: Colorado Supreme Court Bars Local Fracking Bans
by Donald Kendal May 23, 2016In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Jonathan Lockwood, executive director of Advancing Colorado, joins host H. Sterling Burnett to discuss the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to bar localities from banning hydraulic fracturing.
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Like the camel that gets its nose under the tent, once the federal government butts into people’s business it’s very hard to get it out. But in a per curiam decision in Zubik v. Burwell on May 16, 2016, the Supreme Court may have indicated that even in the age of the nanny state, even Supreme Court Justices can abide only so much.
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FeaturedLegal Affairs
The Progressive War on Free Speech – Part Three
by David Applegate April 20, 2016“The Revolution devours its children,” wrote French royalist Jacques Mallet du Pan in 1793, but in the case of the American left, the children are now devouring their masters, both literally and figuratively. For the progressive war on free speech is nowhere more evident than on campus, where it has taken on sinister aspects completely apart from Title IX, about which we wrote in Part Two of this series.
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EducationFeatured
Who Will Protect Parental Choice in Post-Scalia Era?
by Robert Holland March 14, 2016Over the past 25 years, parents and children have won many hard-fought battles for the right to choose the best schools, public or private, to meet their educational needs. A majority of states now have programs providing some degree of access to K–12 private schools.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Mike Duncan: Petition to Halt Obama’s ‘Clean Power Plan’
by H. Sterling Burnett January 28, 2016In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Mike Duncan, the president and CEO for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, joins Managing Editor of Environment & Climate News to discuss the Washington D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision in mid-January not to place a stay on the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan (CPP).