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In The Tank (ep100) – Heartland’s Joseph Bast, Al Gore’s Carbon Footprint, and ITT Stats
by Donald Kendal August 4, 2017John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #100 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from The Heartland Institute, and the National Center for Public Policy Research.
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Climate ChangePolitics
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Illinois Officials Demand More Climate Hysterics
by Nancy Thorner and Ed Ingold June 30, 2017Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner must ignore Illinois’ “Dumbocrats” who are intent on imposing Chicken Little nonsense on the citizens of Illinois, as it’s a recipe for disaster.
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Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedMediaScience
CBS Evening News Runs Story on Heartland Institute ‘Climate Realist’ Joe Bast for Earth Day
by Jim Lakely April 22, 2017What distinguished tonight’s CBS Evening News from every other was the inclusion of a perspective from “climate realists.” The climate realist featured at the 14:58 mark in the video above was Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast.
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Liberty
Heartland Institute Hosts Tribute to Illinois Conservative Patriot Elizabeth A. Clarke
by Nancy Thorner September 2, 2016Elizabeth and Ed Clarke were incredibly brave and willing to sacrifice. They were courageous: Speaking out against communism and socialism in the 1960s and 1970s was not popular.
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The Heartland Institute, CEO, Joe Bast, celebrated its 31st anniversary with a reception and dinner at The Cotillion in Palatine, Illinois, on Thursday, October 8, 2015. Since 1984 Heartland has devoted itself to supporting individual freedom by discovering, developing, and promoting free-market solutions to social and economic problems.
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FeaturedPodcastPolitics
Heartland Daily Podcast: An Afternoon with Angelo Codevilla & Donald J. Devine Pt. 1
by Donald Kendal October 12, 2015In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, we listen in to a conversation between Heartland President Joe Bast, and scholars Angelo Codevilla and Donald J. Devine Ph.D. Codevilla and Devine were both featured speakers at the Heartland Institute’s 31st anniversary benefit dinner. In this conversation, they speak with Bast about their latest books and how the ruling class is distorting the way America was intended to operate.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedMedia
Naomi Klein, The Heartland Institute, and Are We Blind, Too?
by Joe Bast August 31, 2015Klein’s greatest strength is recognizing that nothing less than the abolition of capitalism will achieve the drastic reductions in emissions her side is calling for … and she’s willing to say it out loud. I love that about her. The leaders of the environmental movement, who pretend this isn’t about ideology and that “stopping” climate change would be costless, hate her for revealing this.
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EducationFeatured
Why Academic Achievement Matters
by Herbert J. Walberg and Joseph L. Bast September 8, 2014Nations tend to benefit to the degree their citizens fulfill their potential. When citizens develop their abilities, liberty tends to expand and moral behavior tends to be higher.
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EducationFeatured
Rewards in Elementary Schools
by Herbert J. Walberg and Joseph L. Bast August 5, 2014Well-designed and carefully implemented reward systems can improve student achievement in elementary schools. While young children are often intrinsically motivated, they benefit when their accomplishments, however small, are pointed out by parents and teachers and appropriately rewarded.
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EducationFeatured
To Reward or Not to Reward: Motivating Students to Learn
by Herbert J. Walberg and Joseph L. Bast July 28, 2014Most experts recognize that reward systems are especially valuable at the earliest ages to help students attain the habit of deferring gratification. Failure to develop this habit can handicap learners for the rest of their lives.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Heartland President Joe Bast Discusses the Origins and Importance of ICCC
by John Engle July 18, 2014Heartland Institute President Joseph Bast sat down with the New American’s Bill Jasper during the 9th International Conference on Climate Change to talk about the origin and purpose of the conference. Boasting 64 speakers, from a multitude of disciplines, ICCC9 was the most star-studded climate conference yet.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedMedia
Correcting the Bloomberg Piece on Heartland’s Climate Conference
by Jim Lakely July 11, 2014Heartland and the scientists it works with have never promoted “denial of a changing climate.” The climate is always changing. The question is whether man’s contribution to climate change rises above statistical noise and whether it is a crisis.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedMediaPoliticsTobacco
Fake Journalist Lee Fang Foiled Again
by Jim Lakely April 30, 2014Lee Fang is laughably incompetent, producing the dumbest story about Koch Industries ever written.