The Heartland Institute Weekly

Inside the Beltway: Weather or not to Wake Congress on Climate Change, By Jennifer Harper, The Washington Times

On Monday, March 10, Senate Democrats organized a cozy all-night talkathon that lasted until Tuesday at the U.S. Capitol. The talkathon was meant to “wake up Congress to the danger of climate change.” This article featured comments from Heartland Policy Analyst Taylor Smith...READ MORE

National Review Online: Choosing to Learn, By Joseph L. Bast, Jason Bedrick, Lindsey Burke, Andrew J. Coulson, Robert C. Enlow, Kara Kerwin and Herbert J. Walberg

The best form of "accountability" for education results is accountability directly to parents.True accountability comes not from top-down regulations but from parents financially empowered to exit schools that fail to meet their child’s needs...READ MORE

The Release of Part Two of Climate Change Reconsidered II

The second volume of Climate Change Reconsidered II, addressing plant and animal responses as well as the human impact, will be released in March and April of this year. This book will be the most important development in the global warming discussion in 2014, changing the terms of the debate for years to come. CCR-II allows us to stop debating the science and go directly to the real issues. Your financial support is needed! Please visit giving.heartland.org to make your contribution today. To learn more about this project visit climatechangereconsidered.org

How the Global Warming Scare Began, By Jim Lakely, The Heartland Institute

Heartland friend John Coleman is among the few prominent meteorologists who has not joined his colleagues in perpetuating the public panic over man-caused global warming. He’s brave, influential, and has the backing of his TV station in San Diego, KUSI, to produce videos such as the one at right titled “How the Global Warming Scare Began.”...

The Continuing Relevance of F.A. Hayek’s ‘The Road to Serfdom’ , By Richard Ebeling, The Heartland Institute

In The Road to Serfdom, Hayek showed that government planning was not only an economic disaster, but also a political system of control and management that threatened to bring about the end of human freedom...READ MORE

Bans on GM Crops a Threat to Economy and Food Supplies, By John Engle, The Heartland Institute

In order to maintain our own standards of living, and to help the people of the developing world survive at all, we need genetically modified foods. GM foods have no demonstrated downsides and a cornucopia of benefits, and it is astonishing so many liberals want to see them destroyed. Let’s not surrender to scare tactics...READ MORE

U.S. Wireless Competition Criticism 'Believe It or Not!', By Scott Cleland, president, Precursor LLC

The U.S. wireless industry, with more national facilities-based providers than any nation in the world (4), with four times more wireless investment per subscriber than anywhere else in the world, and with more cutting-edge 4G LTE wireless broadband service available than anywhere else in the world, still has critics trying to claim that the U.S. wireless market is not competitive!...READ MORE

Indiana's Attempt to Replace Common Core Under Fire, By Joy Pullmann, The Heartland Institute

The first draft of Indiana’s testing and curriculum standards meant to replace Common Core national standards has grassroots activists in arms and educators and business leaders complaining, which has caused Gov. Mike Pence and his staff to slightly delay the rewrite process…READ MORE

Christie's 'Sin Tax' on E-cigs Would Burn Quitters, By Gregory Conley, Newar Star-Ledger

Why is New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie trying to punish people who have quit smoking? The governor apparently disapproves of this behavior, as he seeks to apply a tax on e-cigarette sales that would supposedly be equivalent to the excise tax paid by smokers who buy real cigarettes....READ MORE

Consumer Power Report, By Benjamin Domenech, The Heartland Institute

The weekly Consumer Power Report offers a brief analysis by Heartland Institute Senior Fellow Benjamin Domenech, who summarizes, with source citations, several top health care stories for the week. READ MORE

Climate Change Weekly, By James M. Taylor, The Heartland Institute

Taylor writes a weekly e-newsletter for Heartland titled Climate Change Weekly, which reports on current stories regarding the reality of climate change... READ MORE

School Choice Weekly, By Joy Pullmann, The Heartland Institute

Pullmann writes a weekly e-newsletter for Heartland titled School Choice Weekly, which sifts the education news so you don't have to, bringing you the most accurate, timely, and important news, research, and commentary about the schools that educate U.S. citizens... READ MORE

NIPCC Update

New research summarized in NIPCC Update, a weekly email edited by Heartland Senior Fellow Craig Idso, Ph.D. and produced by Heartland and the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC)... READ MORE

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