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March 21, 2019
Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Under Consideration in Texas Legislature
Texas’ current civil asset forfeiture laws are rated among the worst in the nation.
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March 21, 2019
Senate Confirms Andrew Wheeler as EPA Administrator
By H. Sterling Burnett
The U.S. Senate confirmed Andrew Wheeler as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by a party-line vote of 52 in favor and 47 opposed, on February 28.
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March 21, 2019
Alaska’s Donlin Gold Project Receives Crucial Permits
By Duggan Flanakin
The Donlin Gold project, a joint venture of Novagold Resources Alaska Inc. and Barrick Gold US Inc., is closer to becoming a reality with the state of Alaska having issued two critical permits.
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March 20, 2019
Fossil Fuels Are Good for U.S. National Security, New Study Reports
By Linnea Lueken
A new study, “Global Warming Energy Restrictions Threaten U.S. National Security,” shows climate change is not a danger to U.S. national security.
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March 20, 2019
Study: U.S. Intellectual Property Protection Is Strong, but China Poses Big Problem
By Joe Barnett
The United States has the strongest intellectual property protections in the world
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March 19, 2019
Indiana House Passes Self-Defense Lawsuit-Immunity Bill
By Ashley Herzog
The legislation would provide immunity from civil lawsuits by the perpetrators of violent crimes.
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March 19, 2019
Ode to a Butterfly
By Greg E. Walcher
Observing a monarch butterfly in the 1850s, Emily Dickinson wrote about its apparently aimless flitting, “Repairing everywhere, without design that I could trace, except to stray abroad on miscellaneous enterprise, the clovers understood.”
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March 19, 2019
It's Eleven Years, Not Twelve
By Clifford Thies
When Congressze Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced the Green New Deal earlier this year, she said we had only 12 years to save the planet.
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March 19, 2019
North Dakota Court Rules in Favor of Davis Refinery
By Duggan Flanakin
A North Dakota judge rejected a challenge to a state permit issued to Meridian Energy Group in to begin construction of what would be the first new industrial crude oil refinery in the United States in nearly 40 years.
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March 18, 2019
State Legislators Concerned about Constitutional Rights in Firearms Regulation
By Sarah Quinlan
'Red Flag' laws raise concerns about constitutional rights
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March 18, 2019
Heartland Weekly: Trump Tapped the Right Man in Will Happer
By Billy Aouste
Week of March 11, 2019
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March 18, 2019
Make America Greater: Approve the PCCS!
By John Droz, Jr.
America absolutely needs outside expert review of climate claims used to oppose fossil fuels.
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March 18, 2019
Maine Legislators Propose Expanding Bear Hunting Opportunities
By H. Sterling Burnett
Legislators in Maine have proposed two bills that could expand black bear hunting in the state.
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March 18, 2019
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Joins Letter Supporting President’s Commission on Climate Security
By Jim Lakely, Tim Huelskamp, Ph.D.
Letter signed by more than 140 Organizations and Individuals Supports Plan Put Forward by Dr. William Happer at the National Security Council
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March 15, 2019
Child Safety Accounts Under Consideration in Colorado
Parents of students affected by school safety incidents could move their child immediately to a safe school
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March 15, 2019
The Global Economy Desperately Needs Freedom
By Richard Ebeling
How many bureaucrats are there in the world? The global population currently numbers more than 7.5 billion people. Out of that number it is estimated that the global labor force equals almost 3.5 billion.
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March 15, 2019
Central Banks Buying Gold
By Edmund Contoski
Gold buying rose spectacularly in 2018 led by the world's central banks, which increased their physical purchases by 651.5 tonnes.
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March 15, 2019
Court Decision Could Determine Coal Power Plants’ Futures
By Bonner R. Cohen
A pending decision by the Washington, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals could lead to the premature closing of scores of coal-powered electricity plants across the country, potentially hampering the reliability of the nation’s electric power grid.
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March 13, 2019
U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Excessive Fines in Property Confiscation Case
By Jeff Reynolds
civil asset forfeiture laws allow the police to confiscate property
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March 12, 2019
DC Wastes WAY Too Much Time On Bills Everyone Knows Can Not Become Law
By Seton Motley
One of the chimeras for which we eternally search in Washington, DC – is bipartisanship.
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March 12, 2019
California Judge Upholds State Protections for Gray Wolves
By Kenneth Artz
A California state court judge in San Diego ruled gray wolves will continue to be protected under the state’s Endangered Species Act.
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March 11, 2019
Adopting the Right Fiscal Policy Can Prevent a Major Recession
By John Merrifield
Switzerland set the precedent for this type of policy
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March 11, 2019
Stop the Anti-Climate Science Totalitarians
By Paul Driessen
Stop the anti-climate science totalitarians.
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March 11, 2019
Heartland Weekly: CPAC 2019 and Tim Huelskamp on Socialism
By Billy Aouste
Week of March 4, 2019
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March 8, 2019
The Real Russian Collusion: Fomenting EU, U.S. Climate Protests
By H. Sterling Burnett
Climate Change Weekly #317
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March 8, 2019
Pennsylvania Gov. Wolf Proposes Doubling Minimum Wage to $15
By Owen Macaulay
“Job loss is the number one unintended impact of minimum wage increases"
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March 8, 2019
America Needs President Trump’s Climate Science Committee
By John Droz, Jr.
Independent scientists must review alarmist “science” that is driving anti-fossil fuel policies.
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March 8, 2019
Connecticut Bill Would Mandate Teaching Kids About Climate Change
By Arianna Wilkerson
A bill introduced in the Connecticut legislature would mandate climate change be taught to young children in government schools statewide.
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March 7, 2019
Record Lobster Production Defies Alarmist Climate Scare
By James Taylor
Marine fisheries data show New England lobstermen are benefiting from a new golden age of lobster, thanks in large part to a warming Earth.
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March 7, 2019
The Green New Deal’s Electric Power Transformation is An Impossible Nightmare
By H. Sterling Burnett
In the end, even if GND were logistically possible, is it highly undesirable.
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March 7, 2019
PRESS RELEASE: POLL: 93% of Voters Want FDA Reform to Allow Faster Approval of Prescription Drugs
By Tim Huelskamp, Ph.D., Edward Hudgins
ALSO: 95% of Voters Believe Patients and Doctors, not Bureaucrats, Should Be Most Responsible for Treatment Decisions
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March 7, 2019
Illinois Joins U.S. Climate Alliance, Pledges to Cut Carbon Dioxide Emissions
By Christopher Talgo
Newly elected Democratic Gov. J. B. Pritzker of Illinois signed an executive order committing his state to join 17 other states in the United States Climate Alliance
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March 6, 2019
PRESS RELEASE: Green Energy Policies, Climate Activism Threaten National Security
By James Taylor
“Proposals to restrict U.S. carbon dioxide emissions and impose expensive, jobs-killing energy sources on the economy present a clear and present danger to military strength.” -James Taylor
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March 6, 2019
Book Review: Problems of Governance Plague the City That (Sometimes) Works
By Jay Lehr
Chicago has longstanding problems of governance, say authors
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March 6, 2019
Raise Your Glasses For Sunday Liquor Sales
By Lindsey Stroud
July 2019 will mark two years since Minnesota repealed its Prohibition-era ban on selling alcohol on Sundays.
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March 6, 2019
Electric Buses Don’t Save Money or the Environment
By H. Sterling Burnett
From Chicago to San Francisco, several cities across the nation have started to replace some or all their diesel bus fleets with rechargeable battery-powered buses.
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March 6, 2019
Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s Minimum Wage Plan Will Drive More Jobs From Illinois
By Joe Barnett
Like a train wreck in slow motion, the Illinois General Assembly is moving to fulfill Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s campaign promise to increase the statewide minimum wage to $10, $12 and then $15 per hour over the next few years.
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March 6, 2019
Education Bureaucrats Try to Squash Independent Thought
By Robert G. Holland
After deliberating for two years, a national commission is pushing to implement social-emotional learning (SEL) in all government schools.
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March 6, 2019
U.S. EPA Touts 2018 Pollution Improvements, Superfund Site Reductions, and Regulatory Cost Savings
By Linnea Lueken
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) efforts to streamline and reduce regulatory burdens have saved businesses and consumers billions of dollars while continuing to protect public health and safety and improving environmental outcomes.
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March 5, 2019
Elon Musk Burns Fossil Fuels While Telling Others Not To
By Jay Lehr
One must always look askew at anything and everything Mr. Musk spouts, in spite of his brilliance. For many believe insanity may be the other side of genius.
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