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GovernmentHealth CareLegal AffairsPolitics
It Is Time to Repeal Certificate of Need Laws
by Christine Herrin August 25, 2020Applying free market principles to America’s health care system would be the best way to improve the system
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ConstitutionGovernment
Google Tries to Get the Supreme Court to Pretend to be Congress and Write Them Fake ‘Law’
by Seton Motley March 27, 2020As we know, the Left doesn’t give a rat’s posterior about the Constitution.
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Today bigger, supremely powerful global governments are justified by environmental claims.
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Budgets/TaxesClimate ChangeEconomicsEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedHealth CareInternet/TelecomPodcastTaxes
In The Tank (ep168) – Dumbest Drink Laws, and Rudolph “Controversy”
by Donald Kendal December 7, 2018Donny Kendal and John Nothdurft bring you episode #168 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s episode features work from the R Street Institute and the Mississippi Center for Public Policy.
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsFeaturedHealth CareMediaPodcastTaxes
In The Tank (ep109) – Financial State of the States, Right to Try, and PA Liquor Laws
by Donald Kendal October 6, 2017John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #109 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from Truth in Accounting, the Goldwater Institute, and the Commonwealth Foundation.
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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/EnergyFeaturedHealth CarePodcast
In The Tank Podcast (ep51): Olympics, TN Pork Report, Wind Energy, and the FDA Bans 99% of E-Cigarettes
by Donald Kendal August 12, 2016John and Donny continue their weekly exploration of think tanks across the country in episode #51 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 Beacon Center of Tennessee, The Heartland Institute, the National Center For Policy Analysis, and the Foundation for Economic Education.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
What if Environmental Laws Make Things Worse?
by Nancy Thorner May 31, 2016Time and again, humans have put into motion well-intentioned schemes to restore the environment to the condition people have come to believe is natural and pre-ordained by some higher authority, but they only made things worse.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Justice Scalia’s Death Could Lead to a Seismic Shift in Environmental Law
by H. Sterling Burnett March 8, 2016While Scalia’s time serving on the Supreme Court influenced a wide range of issues, his critical analyses and carefully crafted opinions on environmental issues had an outsized impact on environmental policy and law. Scalia’s vote was often the difference between protecting individual liberty against attempts to expand government power and rulings that would have imposed the misanthropic wishes of radical environmentalists on the public.
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FeaturedHealth CarePodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Introducing Michael Hamilton: Heartland’s New Research Fellow for Health Care
by Donald Kendal March 3, 2016In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, host Donald Kendal introduces Heartland’s new Managing Editor of Health Care News (HCN) Michael Hamilton. Hamilton talks a bit about his background as well as several topics that will be featured in the upcoming issue of HCN.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
State Campaign Finance Rules Stifle Free Speech
by Kyle Maichle November 24, 2015On Oct. 15, the California Fair Political Practices Commission issued new regulations on so-called “coordination” between candidates and super political action committees. The new rules are widely considered to be the toughest in the nation. In fact, they’re an outrageous infringement of freedom of speech.
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Education
Lead Plaintiff of ‘Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association’ States her Grievances
by Nancy Thorner and Bonnie O'Neil November 20, 2015As noted in our collaborative article published Monday, Nov. 9, 2015 in Illinois Review, “Supreme Court to Adjudicate Mandatory Union Fees”, Rebecca Friedrichs is the lead plaintiff, an outspoken opponent of her teachers’ union who agreed to let her name become identified with the case. Friedrichs has taught elementary school for 28 years, mostly in the Savanna School District in Anaheim, Ca. You can listen to her discuss the case here, read a Q&A with her here, and a commentary by her in the Orange County Register here.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Goldilocks and the Four Bills – In Washington D.C., In Search of ‘Just Right’
by Seton Motley June 6, 2015There are currently four patent “reform” bills being considered by Congress. Patents are a way innovators protect their ideas – which is how we as a society protect our continued economic viability. If people who invent cool stuff can’t protect their cool stuff from thieves – they’ll stop inventing cool stuff.