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Saturday, November 16, 2013

Heartland Institute's Weekly Report

The BlazeTV: James M.Taylor Discusses Typhoon Haiyan Brittany Somer, The Heartland Institute
Heartland Institute Senior Fellow James M. Taylor explains that the United Nations never talks about the costs of the "solutions" it proposes for "climate change."...READ MORE

IPCC's Bogus Evidence for Global Warming S. Fred Singer, senior fellow, The Heartland Institute
I will show here that the first three IPCC assessment reports contain erroneous scientific arguments, which have never been retracted or formally corrected, but at least have now been abandoned by the IPCC — while the last two reports, AR4 and AR5, use an argument that seems to be circular and does not support their conclusion...READ MORE

The Disaster of Obamacare Will Be Repeated in Energy Policy Joseph L. Bast, The Heartland Institute
The high cost of Obama’s war on coal will soon become apparent, just as it has in Germany and the rest of Europe, and just as the high cost of Obamacare is penetrating the consciousness of the average guy...READ MORE

“Ultimately, Obama’s fix is not a fix at all – it is just an attempt to shift blame away from the White House, which is where most of the blame for this debacle ought to fall.,” notes Benjamin Domenech, a senior fellow, for The Heartland Institute.  “Obama is evidently convinced that he needs to allow this and that and another thing, like some king! A president is supposed to preside — which means stand by and guard! This country is going down the tubes,” says Tibor R. Machan, professor emeritus of philosophy at Auburn University.



Approximately 300 acres of empty factories and occupied bungalows and mansions in Chicago's Pullman district already have city and national historic landmark status. If these historic landmark designations have failed to generate the economic growth people in the area desire, there’s no good reason to expect economic growth from declaring the area a national park...READ MORE


Government Preschool: Like Treating Cancer With a Band-Aid Joy Pullmann, The Heartland Institute
No amount of politicians waving smiling pictures of underprivileged tots can hide the waste of money and human wreckage created by poorly designed federal preschool programs...READ MORE


RESEARCH & COMMENTARIES:
 
Matthew Glans, The Heartland Institute
Several states are proposing new taxes on technological services such as software upgrades, network design, and cloud computing. These taxes would impede further growth in the industry...READ MORE

Personal and corporate income taxes are generally considered to be the most destructive taxes because economic growth arises from production, innovation, and risk-taking, which are stunted when individual and corporate income taxes take dollars out of the hands of businesses and individuals...READ MORE


Climate Change Weekly 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 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


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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Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin (D) has been trying for years to impose taxes on what you purchase on the Internet. But the so-called "Marketplace Fairness Act" is neither fair or helpful to the market...LISTEN HERE

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