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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedPodcastTaxes
In The Tank (ep181) – Illinois Progressive Tax Scheme, Cali County Bans Solar Farm, Gov Steals Dog over Tax Debt
by Donald Kendal March 8, 2019Heartland’s Donald Kendal, and Justin Haskins are joined by Isaac Orr, Policy Fellow at the Center of the American Experiment, in episode #181 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s episode features work from the Illinois Policy Institute, Americans for Prosperity, the Manhattan Institute, and the Foundation for Economic Education.
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EconomicsEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedRandom
Marvel Infinity War Villain Is Lefty Green Do-Gooder
by Darren Brady Nelson May 17, 2018In the Avenger’s Infinity War, Thanos is obviously the main villain but less obviously a do-gooder.
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Politics
NY’s Over-Reaching, Micro-Managing Governor: From ‘Green Energy’ to…Charity Milk
by Seton Motley April 21, 2017When politicians are over-reaching, micro-managing busybodies, they are over-reaching, micro-managing busybodies on…everything.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Republicans Embrace All-of-the-Above Energy Policy
by H. Sterling Burnett July 28, 2016Democratic operatives responsible for writing their party’s platform unanimously adopted a provision calling for the Department of Justice to investigate companies that disagree with Democrats on global warming science.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Justin Danhof: Fighting Back Against Anti-Capitalist Shareholder Resolutions
by H. Sterling Burnett May 9, 2016In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Justin Danhof, director of the Free Enterprise Project (FEP) at the National Center for Public Policy Research, joins host H. Sterling Burnett to talk about FEP’s attempt to fight back against anti-capitist shareholder resolutions.
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FeaturedLegal Affairs
The Progressive War on Free Speech – Part Three
by David Applegate April 20, 2016“The Revolution devours its children,” wrote French royalist Jacques Mallet du Pan in 1793, but in the case of the American left, the children are now devouring their masters, both literally and figuratively. For the progressive war on free speech is nowhere more evident than on campus, where it has taken on sinister aspects completely apart from Title IX, about which we wrote in Part Two of this series.
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EducationFeatured
America’s Once Great School System Corrupted by Dewey, Ayers, and Obama
by Nancy Thorner and Bonnie O'Neil April 6, 2016One needs only to observe the aggressive pursuit of “diversity” in admissions and hiring, the abandonment of the traditional curriculum in favor of highly politicized “studies” based on group identity, the mandatory workshops on sensitivity training, and so on to fully comprehend the stranglehold the Left has managed to secure today within our schools, especially at the university level where instructors need not be as concerned with parental interference, but instead have a captive audience in which to indoctrinate our children to their Marxist philosophies
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Both Parties are Fractured, but on Energy, Each is Unified
by Marita Noon March 9, 2016The Democrat divide is, as NBC News sees it, between dreamers and doers—with the International Business Times (IBT) calling it: “a civil war over the party’s ideological future.” The Boston Globe declares that the “party fissures” represent “a national party torn between Clinton’s promised steady hand and Sanders’ more progressive goals.”
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedLiberty
Elizabeth and Sheldon Torquemada: Agenda of Intolerance and Retribution Against Critics of Ultra-Liberal Policies
by Paul Driessen October 20, 2015As Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition for 15 years, Tomas de Torquemada presided over the interrogation, torture, imprisonment and execution of thousands, for the “crimes” of religious heresy and pretended conversion to Christianity. Historian Sebastián de Olmedo titled him “the hammer of heretics.”
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Writing in Canon and Culture, Prof. Colin Garbarino of Houston Baptist University poses an interesting and accurate critique of the common notion that the nation’s colleges and universities indoctrinate a generally conservative or at least politically and culturally neutral incoming student population into advanced progressive leftism and political correctness. They do impose such an agenda, he notes, but the overwhelming majority of students they are indoctrinating have already heard and adopted its fundamental premises upon arrival.
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FeaturedPolitics
Presidential Hubris in the State of the Union Address
by Richard Ebeling February 5, 2014President Obama’s State of the Union address on the night of January 28, 2014 was all about “micro-management.” It was micro-management at one level since he realizes that a divided Congress will not pass any “grand” legislation that he might try to submit.
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With all the talk of America’s forgotten middle class, it’s worth taking time as we begin a new year to consider that the country’s seeming obsession with wealth and inequality may instead be turning the U. S. into a country with only two classes: the governed and the governing.
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsFeaturedLiberty
Why We Need Minimum Price Laws Today
by Matt Faherty August 22, 2013There is a serious problem in America today; the epidemic of poverty prices. Across the country, American business owners are being forced by market conditions to sell goods at prices…