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September 22, 2017
Documentary: Better to Run Education Like a Business?
A recently released documentary film explores whether educational institutions would do better by operating like businesses.
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Environment
September 22, 2017
Book Details Junk Science Used by Regulators and Touted by Media
Alex Berezow puts the lie to myriad fallacies behind almost every imaginable popular bogus health- and science-related claim in this book.
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Environment
September 21, 2017
Obama Holdovers Are Making Puerto Rico’s Recovery Much Less Possible
The most damaging and pernicious of the nigh infinite elements of the Washington, D.C. Swamp – which President Donald Trump has pledged to drain – is the leftover personnel.
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Education
September 21, 2017
Senator Recommends Hard Work, Reading for Young Americans
Review of The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis—and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance, by Ben Sasse (St. Martin’s Press, 2017), 320 pp.; $16.75: ISBN-10: 1250114403, ISBN-13: 978-1250114402
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Health Care
September 20, 2017
Single-Payer Health Care Is Only Good for Government, Not the People It Serves
What does the term “single-payer” even mean? It’s Inside the Beltway jargon to describe a government monopoly over health care.
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September 20, 2017
PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Institute Expert Reacts to Illinois Signing Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform
"Every year, more and more states fix this gross abuse of government power, and Gov. Rauner joins those ranks today." - Jesse Hathaway
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September 19, 2017
North Carolina, Texas Limit Attractiveness of New Wind Farm Developments
By H. Sterling Burnett
North Carolina and Texas have taken steps to rein in wind farm development near military installations.
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September 18, 2017
Moscow Sees Its Coldest Christmas in 120 Years
By Jon Basil Utley
Moscow has had a record-busting winter, including the coldest Christmas in 120 years according to Russian reports.
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September 18, 2017
Before Closing the Waukegan Coal Plant, Lawmakers Should Consider California’s Failures
By Isaac Orr, Frederick D. Palmer
A Lake County Republican has recently partnered with the Sierra Club in its Beyond Coal campaign, which advocates the closure of the Waukegan Generating Station.
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September 18, 2017
Convention of States: How the States Meet to Bypass Congress
By Rob Natelson
The idea of a convention of states such as the one scheduled for Phoenix, Arizona on September 12 may be unfamiliar to most people, but similar conventions have gathered throughout American history.
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September 18, 2017
Two Cheers For America's Energy Infrastructure
By Bernard (Bud) Weinstein
The southern United States has just experienced two of the most severe storms of the century: Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. The economic damage wrought by these disasters may approach $150 billion.
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September 18, 2017
Oregon Governor’s Air Quality Plan Scuttled by State Regulatory Agency
By Kenneth Artz
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality instituted less stringent air emission restrictions than those requested by Gov. Kate Brown.
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September 18, 2017
Pennsylvania College Provides a Different Higher Education Model
By Jane S. Shaw
A Pennsylvania postsecondary institution provides male students a vocational education free of charge.
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September 18, 2017
A Green Black Eye: Pope Refuses to Dialogue
By Elizabeth Yore
The Pope of Dialogue has thus far slammed the bronze doors of St. Peter’s on any dialogue on the issue of global warming.
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September 18, 2017
Heartland Weekly: Before Closing the Waukegan Coal Plant, Lawmakers Should Consider California’s Failures
By Jim Lakely
Sierra Club linked Republican Chairman attempts to shut down a coal plant that sustains over 100 jobs in Lake County, Illinois. This and more in this week's edition of Heartland Weekly.
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September 15, 2017
Wealthy Countries Resilient in the Face of Extreme Weather
By H. Sterling Burnett
Climate Change Weekly #262
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