Europe
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyFeatured
The Paris Climate Agreement Was Doomed Even Before the United States’ Withdrawal
by H. Sterling Burnett December 9, 2019The U.S. was far from the worst offender against the climate agreement.
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In American election cycles all of the possible candidates for government office of both major political parties assure those who may vote for them in primaries and the general election that they are voices for the real or true “American values.”
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
Around the World Backlash Increases Against Climate Change Policies
by H. Sterling Burnett June 13, 2019From Alberta to Australia, from Finland to France, and beyond, voters are increasingly showing their displeasure with expensive energy policies imposed by politicians in an inane effort to purportedly fight human-caused climate change.
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FeaturedGovernmentLiberty
What 19th-Century Foreign Writers Said about American Freedom and Prosperity
by Richard Ebeling May 2, 2019If you look at the results of relatively open and competitive market economies over the years, the only conclusion that can reasonably be reached is that free market liberal-oriented societies provide the conditions for constant betterment.
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Environment/Energy
Russia Is Polluting Energy and Climate Politics in Western Democracies
by H. Sterling Burnett April 15, 2019Russia is once again actively trying to influence the policies of foreign governments, though this time, the target is Europe, not the United States.
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Environment/Energy
Wood Instead of Coal: More Foolishness from Radical Environmentalists
by Steve Goreham February 7, 2019When Thomas Edison established his Pearl Street power plant in New York City in 1892, he used coal for fuel, not wood.
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EconomicsFeatured
When Will the Music Stop? No One Knows, But When It Does the Bill to Taxpayers Will Be Huge
by Todd Gabel October 8, 2018It has been said that economists have predicted “nine of the last five recessions,” or words to that effect, suggesting that the “dismal science” can’t be trusted.
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Greece is on the verge of settling the repayment of its bailout loans from the International Monetary Fund, European banks and other creditors.
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Agriculture is under attack.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Heartland on the Radio: H. Sterling Burnett on Energy Matters
by Billy Aouste August 30, 2017On August 29, Research Fellow H. Sterling Burnett was a guest on the Energy Matters to discuss how the G-20 Summit nations snub and isolate the United States for their decision to leave the Paris climate agreement.
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Government
Part 2: Is the Nation Our Forefathers Gave Us Slipping Away?
by Nancy Thorner July 28, 2017America’s Founding Fathers did not encourage unlimited immigration, but neither did they prevent or discourage it by any federal legislation. They believed most decisions should be left to individual states to regulate.
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Budgets/Taxes
Tax Reform Would Modernize How U.S. Taxes Global Business Income
by Peter Ferrara June 24, 2017With the highest top marginal tax rate in the developed world, if not the entire world, at nearly 40%, counting state corporate taxes on average, this U.S. taxation is very burdensome.
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When the dust settled after last Tuesday’s parliamentary elections, Mrs. May’s commanding position had been swept away. Britain was left with a “hung parliament”; for the first time people were seriously looking at Jeremy Corbyn.