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Anna DeJarnette
Profile -Anna DeJarnette serves as the Director of Development for The Heartland Institute. She brings deep experience in fundraising, external relations and communications. She is a passionate leader who has dedicated her career to promoting freedom and human flourishing through roles in non-profits and government. Before joining Heartland, DeJarnette served as the Deputy Director of Programs […] -
PRESS RELEASE: Coalition of Public Interest Groups Will Be Seeking Injunction to Stop Virginia Offshore Wind Project to Save the Right Whale
Opinion -We seek an injunction prohibiting further offshore construction until BOEM corrects its illegal, whale-killing, mistake. -
Annual Interest on National Debt Now Eclipses Entire Military Budget
Opinion -Never should the name “Joe Biden” and the words “fiscal responsibility” be used in the same sentence. -
You Don’t Actually Own the Securities in Your Account
Opinion -The point is that a system like the one that has been created, wherein big banks can use customers’ assets to make risky bets in the derivatives markets and then jump to the front of the line in the event of a financial collapse, is a system that is rotten to the core. -
Exploding Energy Prices in California
Opinion -California leaders know that rising prices are a huge problem. The state is now considering a plan to tie utility rates to personal income so that the rich pay more and low-income residents pay less. -
America’s Energy Scam! A deliberate exploitation of humanity that only increases emissions!
Opinion -America’s climate policies being introduced are particularly harmful for developing countries. America is probably the most environmentally controlled county in the world, but by deliberately relying on poorer developing countries for our fuels and products, we are “leaking” to other countries. -
Using a Different Tool to Control Water
Opinion -It is no coincidence that environmental petitioners have requested that another 3,178 more species be added to the federal endangered list, more than the total number added in the entire 50-year history of ESA. -
Biden’s SOTU Cancer Reference Was No Gaffe
Opinion -After 40 years of Dr. Fauci and his Soviet-style management tactics at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the last thing we need is more government control coupled with an off-the-books, secret bureau for medical research. -
Government Gone Wild: Minnesota Bill Would Outlaw Unlicensed Painting
Opinion -Incredibly, for the citizens of Minnesota, it could soon be against the law to paint a wall, ceiling, or anything else for that matter inside one’s own home without a licensed painter present. And, if the bill is passed as currently written, it would be illegal for unlicensed painters to purchase solvent-based paints in quantities larger than a gallon. -
Revising Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code to Protect Americans’ Property Rights
Publication -Policy Tip Sheets -Important provisions in Article 8 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) contain highly problematic elements that undermine Americans’ individual rights and threaten the stability of the U.S. economy. This Tip Sheet will provide a brief description of those troubling areas of the UCC and propose a set of related concrete policy solutions for lawmakers. The […] -
Should U.S. Citizens Pay for Illegal Immigrants’ Health Care?
Opinion -In 2024, as many of America’s most vulnerable citizens delay or forgo medical treatments, some states are offering taxpayer-funded health care to the millions of illegal immigrants who have streamed across the Southern border. -
Trump v Anderson: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Opinion -Various prosecutors are trying to stop Trump by imprisoning him or bankrupting him. -
‘Dark Brandon’s’ Angry State of the Union Address Reveals Desperation
Opinion -President Joe Biden did not perform his duty to inform the American people about the actual state of America; instead, he chose to mock and ridicule nearly half of the nation while giving a hackneyed campaign speech full of half-truths and “misinformation.” -
Polar Bears and Coral Reefs Are Doing Just Fine
Opinion -In short, real-world data show that both polar bears and coral reefs are doing far better than alarmists would have you believe is the case based on flawed climate models. -
Tavern Debate | Resolved: that the United States is in a war and losing badly
Event -Most people don’t realize they’re in a war until it is already underway, and the same is true in the United States today. Culturally, economically, militarily, and politically, the people of the United States are at war with themselves and others around the world, and losing badly. On the cultural front, radical forces both Left […] -
Video: ESG on the Outs? – The Climate Realism Show #100
Opinion -Climate Change Roundtable is now The Climate Realism Show. -
CFACT Says Offshore Wind Violates Clean Air and Clean Water Acts
Opinion -At this point CFACT is merely raising the question, why isn’t the Clean Water Act employed in offshore wind industrialization? -
Classroom Warfare
Opinion -While additional counselors who can reason with youthful offenders may help in some cases, it is not a fix that will always work. -
Green Energy Goals in Conflict: Electric Power
Opinion -Efforts to adopt EVs and heat pumps will produce rising electricity demand and directly conflict with efforts to close power plants. -
The EV Market Hits the Brakes As Sales Hit a Speed Bump!
Opinion -The elites have bought EVs, and elites may continue to buy EVs, BUT we’re quickly running out of elites! -
Shocker: The Biggest Impediment to US Dealing with China? DC
Opinion -Let’s analyze the global situation logically and logistically, shall we? Russia is simply NOT a geopolitical threat. -
Fiscal Rules and ‘Learning by Doing’
Opinion -Incorporating fiscal rules in the U.S. Constitution would give citizens a voice in fiscal policy and prevent legislators from behaving in a fiscally irresponsible manner. -
Fiscal Conservatives Can Win the Budget Fight – Here’s How
Opinion -The Uniparty in Congress is once again engaged in its recurring haggling over how to avoid a government shutdown, with the next deadline set to arrive in a matter of days. -
The ‘Rule of Cool’ Triumphs in Helldivers 2, and the Left Doesn’t Get It
Opinion -Today, leftists possess control over the vast majority of mainstream media outlets, video game companies included, and so have taken to carefully constructing narratives that do not fall too far outside the line of progressive orthodoxy.