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Heartland Daily Podcast – Elizabeth Stelle: How Fracking is Helping Pennsylvania Prosper

by H. Sterling Burnett July 25, 2016

In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast we welcome on Elizabeth Stelle, Director of Policy Analysis for the Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives – a free-market think tank based out of Pennsylvania. Stelle comes on the show to talk about how Pennsylvania has prospered by allowing hydraulic fracturing.

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Are Wind Turbines Killing Whales?

by Paul Driessen March 6, 2016

Between January 9 and February 4 this year, 29 sperm whales got stranded and died on English, German and Dutch beaches. Environmentalists and the news media offered multiple explanations – except the most obvious and likely one: offshore wind farms.

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Heartland Daily Podcast – Jared Meyer: Peer-to-Peer Economy Saves Time, Money, and Lives

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Heartland Daily Podcast – Heather Kays: Top Five Reasons Teachers Unions Must Change

by Heather Kays October 1, 2015

In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, we listen in as Research Fellow Heather Kays joins the Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily Podcast with host Jamie Lund. Kays joins the podcast to discuss education policy and the top five reasons teachers unions must change.

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Dodd-Frank Annual Costs to Approach $200 Billion

by Robert Genetski November 25, 2014

Our politicians have placed any number of barriers in the way of prosperity, and one of the most costly has been the Dodd-Frank financial reforms (DF). Congress passed this 2,300-page law in 2010. It has since spawned a massive new regulatory environment with an impact reaching far beyond the nation’s $1.1 trillion financial services industry.

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Supreme Court Hands Huge Win to Families on School Choice July 1, 2020
Under the U.S. Constitution, states no longer may prevent parents from choosing religious schools if they are participating in a school choice program.
Security for me — but not for thee June 30, 2020
Three Minneapolis city council members have private security officers protecting them at city expense.
The Culture War and the Progressive Delusion June 30, 2020
The culture war isn't fought in Washington.
John Roberts Outsmarts Himself Yet Again June 30, 2020
Chief Justice Roberts’s capricious application of stare decisis is startling. After all, stare decisis didn’t stop him from overturning precedent in Citizens…
Social Media’s Election Interference - American Greatness June 30, 2020
What Facebook and Twitter are doing is no less insidious than meddling by a foreign adversary. Their activity is political, not commercial.
Opinion | Woke Capital Targets Free Speech June 30, 2020
Advertisers want to turn Facebook into a political enforcement tool.
Trump Will Win If He Responds to Righteous Voter Rage - American Greatness June 29, 2020
The hour of reckoning is here. Either Trump will crush the lawlessness and win swing voters to his side, or he will listen to the trimmers and lose the country.
The Morning Briefing: Will the 2020 Rage Mob Survive a Trip to the Suburbs? June 29, 2020
A friend of mine recently said that you-know-what was “gonna get real when they start going into neighborhoods.”
Bethany Mandel: The Showdown is On: Teacher’s Unions vs. Kids June 29, 2020
With school districts across the country announcing their plans for next year, it’s clear that a battle is brewing between teacher’s unions and parents.
How Far Gone Is Big Business? Part I June 29, 2020
Small business remains generally conservative, but big business is mostly on the Left. How can that be?