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EconomicsFeaturedGovernmentPolitics
America’s Fiscal Follies are Dangerously in the Red
by Richard Ebeling September 8, 2020The Congressional Budget Office has recently issued a federal “Budget Outlook Update”
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ConstitutionFeaturedPolitics
Ninth Circus Court No More? Trump-McConnell’s Judges Have Made Huge Differences Everywhere
by Seton Motley August 17, 2020The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals – the nation’s largest Appeals court – has long been a judicial joke.
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Budgets/TaxesGovernmentPolitics
Government Duplicates When It’s Stupid – And Doesn’t When It’s A National Security Imperative
by Seton Motley May 31, 2018“We could say the government spends like drunken sailors – but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. Because the sailors are spending their own money.”
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Budgets/TaxesEducationFeaturedPodcastRegulationTaxes
In The Tank (ep91) – The Astonishing Amount of Regulations, ESAs for All, Firework Laws
by Donald Kendal June 2, 2017John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #91 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and the Buckeye Institute.
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Budgets/TaxesEnvironment/EnergyPodcast
In The Tank (ep69) – Christmas, Libertarian Gifts, and Our Policy Wishlists
by Donald Kendal December 23, 2016John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #69 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from Reason, the Heartland Institute, and PERC.
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Environment/EnergyPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Bill Kovacs: Unfunded Mandates Undermine the Constitution, State Autonomy and Our Economic Well-Being
by H. Sterling Burnett October 4, 2016A recent U.S. Chamber of Commerce study shows the Obama administration is ignoring the law by imposing an increasing number of unfunded mandates on the states without first assessing their economic impact or carrying out a required cost benefit analysis.
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In The Tank Podcast (ep48): #WebOfDenial, Cutting the Federal Budget, Renewable Mandates, and the Everglades
by Donald Kendal July 22, 2016With John MIA, Donny is joined by Director of Communications Jim Lakely in this week’s exploration of think tanks across the country in episode #48 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 Cato Institute, the Rio Grande Foundation, and the James Madison Institute.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Consumers Lose, Regulators Win in Federal Court’s Net-Neutrality Ruling
by Jesse Hathaway July 22, 2016A months-long court battle challenging the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) authority to rewrite U.S. law has been brought to an end by federal judges. Unfortunately for consumers, the government courts sided with government lawyers.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Michael Bowe: Greenpeace Under Fire in Court
by H. Sterling Burnett June 27, 2016In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Michael Bowe, a partner with the New York law firm Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman, joins the show to talk about the interesting legal case involving the environmental terrorist organization, Greenpeace.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Michael Coons: In Pursuit of a Countermand Amendment
by Donald Kendal May 24, 2016In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Michael Coons, National Legislative Director of Citizen Initiatives, joins hosts Donald Kendal and Kyle Maichle to talk about the Article V movement to create a Countermand Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
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Sponsors of this fall’s presidential debates ought to devote one debate entirely to education, with Common Core being the primary topic.
Trump should be pinned down on how he believes a president could quickly end a program that is not a freestanding federal enactment. Clinton should be made to walk Americans through her game plan for ensuring Common Core’s permanence using a similar strategy as the one utilized by the Bill Clinton administration through the School-to-Work Act of 1994. And by all means, the Libertarian Party candidate, who will be selected Memorial Day weekend, should be included as well and asked to explain how he or she plans to extract the federal government from education entirely, root and branch. -
FeaturedHealth Care
Myth-Busting New Hampshire’s Medicaid Expansion
by Michael Hamilton April 15, 2016New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan signed into law on April 5 House Bill 1696 to modify and renew through 2018 the state’s Medicaid expansion program under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which state lawmakers first adopted in 2014.
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FeaturedLegal AffairsLiberty
The Progressive War on Free Speech – Part Two
by David Applegate April 11, 2016O’Sullivan’s Law, named after British journalist John O’Sullivan, holds that any organization or enterprise that is not expressly right wing will become left wing over time.