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August 23, 2017
Debunking Edge Competition Myth Predicate in FCC Title II Broadband Order – FCC Comments
In 2015, the FCC’s Title II Open Internet broadband order was predicated on a demonstrably false central competitive premise: that the Internet’s edge was competitive while the broadband Internet core was not competitive. The facts prove the opposite.
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Environment
August 23, 2017
EPA Air Quality Research, Regulations Flawed, Study Finds
A new study shows the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency claims small particles of dust, dirt, and soot, known as PM2.5, cause hundreds of thousands of premature deaths each year are wrong.
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Economy
August 22, 2017
Facebook Founder Promotes Universal Basic Income
Posting on social media, Facebook founder and chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg promoted creating a national universal basic income (UBI) entitlement program.
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Alcohol & Tobacco
August 22, 2017
Alabama Margarita Ban Goes Down, Consumers Say ‘Bottoms Up’
Alabama’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Board (ABC), a government agency with the stated mission of maintaining “rigorous control” of the distribution and licensing of alcoholic beverages in the state, reversed a ban on restaurants’ margarita sales.
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Environment
August 21, 2017
Legislative Pulse: Wisconsin REINing in Agencies’ Regulations
Wisconsin state Sen. Frank Lasee (R-Ledgeview), cosponsored the Wisconsin REINS Act requiring any rule with a fiscal impact exceeding $10 million over two years be approved by the legislature before taking effect.
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Education
August 21, 2017
Falling State Funding Doesn’t Cause Tuition Increases, Study Shows
A common explanation for ever-rising tuition at public universities—that it results from declining budget support from state legislatures—is wrong, a new study shows.
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August 23, 2017
Debunking Edge Competition Myth Predicate in FCC Title II Broadband Order – FCC Comments
By Scott Cleland
In 2015, the FCC’s Title II Open Internet broadband order was predicated on a demonstrably false central competitive premise: that the Internet’s edge was competitive while the broadband Internet core was not competitive. The facts prove the opposite.
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August 23, 2017
EPA Air Quality Research, Regulations Flawed, Study Finds
By H. Sterling Burnett
A new study shows the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency claims small particles of dust, dirt, and soot, known as PM2.5, cause hundreds of thousands of premature deaths each year are wrong.
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August 22, 2017
Facebook Founder Promotes Universal Basic Income
By Jeff Reynolds
Posting on social media, Facebook founder and chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg promoted creating a national universal basic income (UBI) entitlement program.
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August 22, 2017
Alabama Margarita Ban Goes Down, Consumers Say ‘Bottoms Up’
By S.M. Chavey
Alabama’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Board (ABC), a government agency with the stated mission of maintaining “rigorous control” of the distribution and licensing of alcoholic beverages in the state, reversed a ban on restaurants’ margarita sales.
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August 21, 2017
Legislative Pulse: Wisconsin REINing in Agencies’ Regulations
By H. Sterling Burnett
Wisconsin state Sen. Frank Lasee (R-Ledgeview), cosponsored the Wisconsin REINS Act requiring any rule with a fiscal impact exceeding $10 million over two years be approved by the legislature before taking effect.
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August 21, 2017
Falling State Funding Doesn’t Cause Tuition Increases, Study Shows
By Jane S. Shaw
A common explanation for ever-rising tuition at public universities—that it results from declining budget support from state legislatures—is wrong, a new study shows.
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August 21, 2017
Austrian Monetary Theory vs. Federal Reserve Inflation Targeting
By Richard Ebeling
Several major central banks around the world, including the Federal Reserve in the United States, have set a goal of two percent price inflation. The problem is, what central bankers are targeting is a phantom that does not exist.
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August 21, 2017
Leadership for a New Era of Freedom
By Joseph Bast
Quarterly Performance Report Third Quarter, 2017
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Dog hiding because it did something naughty
August 18, 2017
New York Times, Draft Gov’t Climate Report Mislead
By H. Sterling Burnett
Climate Change Weekly #259
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August 18, 2017
Fossil-Fuel Divestment Could Cost Public Pensions Big Bucks, Study Finds
By H. Sterling Burnett
A new study shows fossil fuel divestment is costly to investors.
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Al Gore Inconvenient Sequel 1
August 17, 2017
Will Al Gore Demand a Recount Now That 'An Inconvenient Sequel' Has Flopped?
By Tim Huelskamp, Ph.D.
More than 10 years ago, Americans forked over $50 million to listen to the former vice president claim to be a scientist. Since then, most of his predictions have been dead-wrong.
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August 17, 2017
Long-Term Care ... or the Things You Think About When Retirement Looms
By Diane Bast
Among the things one thinks about, or should think about, as retirement looms is long-term care... and perhaps more importantly when you’re in your 50s, long-term care insurance.
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Bully
August 16, 2017
Teachers Union Kills Another Successful School of Choice
By Teresa Mull
School Choice Weekly #189
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August 16, 2017
Climate Science Isn’t Settled, Energy Secretary Perry Testifies
By Bonner R. Cohen
At a hearing before the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Energy Secretary Rick Perry testified climate is changing but human carbon dioxide emissions are not the main cause.
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August 16, 2017
Life in Fossil-Fuel-Free Utopia
By Paul Driessen
Life without oil, natural gas and coal would most likely be nasty, brutish and short.
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August 16, 2017
John Oliver: Multi-Millionaire, Big Government, Big Business ‘Champion of the Little Guy’
By Seton Motley
HBO’s alleged comedian-host John Oliver has the same problem a lot of wealthy Leftists have.
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August 15, 2017
Purdue Buys For-Profit Kaplan University, Offers Discount to Indiana Residents
By Jane S. Shaw
Purdue University trustees are offering significant discounts to in-state residents who enroll in Kaplan University, an online school Purdue recently acquired.
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August 15, 2017
Ten Years On: Recession, Recovery and the Regulatory State
By Richard Ebeling
What we now know to have been one of the worst economic and financial crises of the post-World War II period began about ten years ago in 2007.
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August 15, 2017
Silicon Valley’s ‘News’ Services: Bad News for Less Government Everywhere
By Seton Motley
For decades now, all of America’s major institutions – have been broadly, unquestionably Leftist, and rigidly opposed to any deviance from the entrenched doctrine.
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August 15, 2017
Birther’ism in Australia
By Clifford Thies
Both the U.S. and Australia allow dual citizenship. Many Americans and Australians are dual citizens, many without knowing it, by reason of lineage and place of birth.
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August 14, 2017
G-20 Nations Will Isolate the United States — Until They Want American Energy
World leaders at the recent G-20 summit presented a mostly unified front against President Donald Trump in retaliation for his decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement.
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Electric car
August 14, 2017
Tesla Continues to Use Government to Rob the Poor to Pay the Rich
By H. Sterling Burnett
Climate Change Weekly #258
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August 14, 2017
Interior Department Moves to Shrink Multiple National Monuments
By Kenneth Artz
The Trump administration is reviewing 27 national monuments, considering shrinking them in size and altering the activities allowed within their borders.
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August 12, 2017
Families Unplugged: Screen Time vs. Face Time
By Robert G. Holland
Celebrated on the first Sunday in August, American Family Day has features that differ from certain major holidays, such as no gift exchanges, greeting cards, or traditional feasting.
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August 12, 2017
Why Aren’t We Spending Money for Roads on Roads?
By Jesse Hathaway
Summer driving season is soon to kick into high gear, and many Americans are starting to think about that upcoming family road trip to the beach.
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August 11, 2017
FWS Drops Mexican Vole from Endangered Species List
By Michael McGrady
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed the Hualapai Mexican vole from the endangered species list, three decades after mistakenly listing the rodent as an endangered subspecies of Mexican vole in 1987.
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August 11, 2017
Law Firm Demands Pennsylvania High School Allow Pro-Life Club
By Harry Painter
A national law firm sent a demand letter to a Pennsylvania high school, informing administrators the school’s denial of permission for a proposed pro-life club violates students’ constitutional rights.
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August 10, 2017
Revolutionary Vote Security – If Government Will Allow
By Seton Motley
Remember the overtime-session, hanging chad, 2000 George W. Bush v Al Gore presidential election?
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August 10, 2017
Rahm Emanuel Replays Scene from “Yes, Prime Minister” while Chicago Burns
By Joseph Bast
In his well-received speech on Wednesday at a rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, President Donald Trump once again commented on social, economic, and political crises taking place in Chicago, asking “What’s wrong with Chicago?”
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August 10, 2017
List of Conventions of States and Colonies in American History
By Rob Natelson
Conventions of states, and before Independence of colonies have met frequently over the past three centuries. A “Convention for proposing Amendments” held under the Constitution is a gathering of this type.
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August 9, 2017
Tyrants of the Mind and the New Collectivism
By Richard Ebeling
The current counter-revolution against liberty is being fought on a number of fronts in American society.
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August 9, 2017
Kemper, Mississippi Coal Gasification Plant Falters
By Michael McGrady
Southern Company is ending its attempts to gasify coal at it's Kemper Project, announcing it would operate the facility as a natural gas power plant.
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August 9, 2017
U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Liberty in Church Playground Case
By Teresa Mull
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Missouri government cannot reject a church’s application for a state grant because of the institution’s religious character. Education choice advocates are hailing the ruling as a victory for school choice.
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August 9, 2017
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Experts React to Leaked Climate Science Special Report
By Isaac Orr, Frederick D. Palmer, Tom Harris, Tom Sheahen, Donn Dears, Marc Morano, Joseph S. D'Aleo, James H. Rust, John Coleman, Walter Starck, Christopher Essex, Arthur Viterito
The New York Times this week posted a draft of a climate science report by the federal government’s U.S. Global Change Research Program.
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August 8, 2017
Calm Climate Hysteria
By Richard J. Trzupek
The House passed the Ozone Standards Implementation Act of 2017, which instructs the Environmental Protection Agency to delay implementing a microscopic and expensive adjustment to national air quality standards promulgated by the Obama-era EPA.
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August 8, 2017
Even The Best Government Can't Predict The Future — So Why Do We Trust Them To Design It For Us?
By David S. D’Amato
Predicting the future, even in a game with simple rules and few players is incredibly difficult, even for experts.
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August 8, 2017
John McCain and the Partisan Farce on “Healthcare Reform”
By Jane M. Orient, M.D.
Senator John McCain of Arizona sequentially played the role of superhero, villainous traitor (to Republicans), and savior (to ObamaCare) as the McConnell “skinny repeal” lost by one vote—his.
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August 8, 2017
Google’s Ideological Diversity: Making Colleges And Robert Mueller Look Good
By Seton Motley
Anyone both remotely in touch with Reality and honest – knows and acknowledges that the vast majority of our nation’s colleges and universities are ultra-Leftist academic swamps.
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August 8, 2017
Wisconsin Legislature Passes First State REINS Act
By Bonner R. Cohen
Wisconsin becomes the first state to require any major regulation proposed by administrative agencies be approved by the state’s legislature and signed by the governor with enactment of the Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act.
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August 8, 2017
Nevada Legislature Fails to Fund State’s Education Savings Account Program
By Teresa Mull
Nevada lawmakers failed to reach a deal to fund the state’s education savings account (ESA) program, and the thousands of families who signed up for ESAs will have to wait another two years to know their fate.
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