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  • Florida Scholarship Program Survives Another Anti-Choice Lawsuit

    Published February 6, 2015
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    Florida’s tax-credit scholarship program scored another legal victory against one of the lawsuits filed by the state’s largest teachers union in an ongoing battle against the program.

  • The Founders Wanted a Laser-Targeted Article V Convention (Part 8 of 8)

    Published February 6, 2015
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    This is part 8 of the 8 part series establishing that the laser-focus of the Compact for America approach to organizing an Article V convention with the specific job advancing and ratifying a pre-drafted, specific federal Balanced Budget Amendment is

  • Minnesota Researchers’ #EpicFail – Trying for a Smokeless Tobacco/Cancer Link

    Published February 6, 2015
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    Publishing a study of tobacco-specific nitrosamines in American smokeless tobacco products (abstracthere), Dorothy Hatsukami and colleagues at the University of Minnesota called for the FDA to issue “regulations…to reduce levels of…NNK and NNN in

  • Heartland Institute Experts Comment on FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s Net Neutrality Plan

    Published February 6, 2015
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    Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler this week unveiled his plan to reclassify broadband under Title II of the Communications Act, a section of the law written in 1934 the FCC uses to regulate telephone service.

  • Peru, India Crack Down on Greenpeace

    Published February 6, 2015
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    With the governments of Peru and India hitting back against both foreign and domestic members of Greenpeace, the U.S.-based activist group is starting to receive major pushback from its anti-energy protest activities.

  • Heartland Institute Experts React to Tennessee’s Rejection of Medicaid Expansion

    Published February 5, 2015
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    The Health and Welfare Committee of the Tennessee Senate on Thursday voted 7‒4 against a bill that would allow Gov. Bill Haslam (R) to expand Medicare, as allowed under the Affordable Care Act.

  • The Insane Vaccine Debate

    Published February 5, 2015
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    First published at The Federalist.

  • Legislative Pulse: Virginia

    Published February 5, 2015
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    [Editor’s Note: This is the inaugural column of what will be a monthly ECN feature. Each issue, ECN’s managing editor will interview a state legislator concerning the pressing environmental and energy issues confronting his or her state.]Benton Chafin Jr.

  • Nursing Home Moratorium Resurrected in Indiana

    Published February 5, 2015
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    The Indiana legislature is considering legislation introduced by State Sen.

  • Republicans Propose Replacement for Obamacare

    Published February 5, 2015
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    Today Senators Orrin Hatch and Richard Burr, along with Representative Fred Upton, revealed their plan to replace Obamacare. It's too soon to call it "the" Republican replacement, especially since it hasn't been drafted as legislation, only as an outline.

  • Kansas Schools Sue State Over Education Funding

    Published February 5, 2015
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    Kansas is the latest state to lose a funding battle between public schools and lawmakers.

  • Where’s Our Refund for Climate Change Costs?

    Published February 5, 2015
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    A new report released by the White House shows Americans are overpaying for climate change reduction efforts, and considering scientific research shows average global temperatures have not risen significantly since 1998, maybe we should all get a refund.

  • Slow Zone in Oil Fields

    Published February 5, 2015
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    Two technologies—hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking,” and horizontal drilling—have transformed the United States from an also-ran into a frontrunner in terms of energy production.

  • Net Neutrality Bait And Switch To Title II

    Published February 5, 2015
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    Net neutrality and Title II FCC Internet regulation are not the same.Net neutrality is forward-looking, 21st century Internet freedom. Title II is backward-looking, 1934 government restrictions of a bygone telephone monopoly.

  • FCC Set to Vote on Overriding States’ Muni Wi-Fi Bans

    Published February 5, 2015
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    President Barack Obama is pressing hard to expand taxpayer-funded government wireless access, calling for it in a January 14 speech in Cedar Falls, Iowa [2]and in his State of the Union address.

  • Republicans Propose Replacement for Obamacare

    Published February 5, 2015
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    Today Senators Orrin Hatch and Richard Burr, along with Representative Fred Upton, revealed their plan to replace Obamacare. It's too soon to call it "the" Republican replacement, especially since it hasn't been drafted as legislation, only as an outline.

  • Colorado Lawmaker Proposes Crackdown on Civil Forfeiture Abuse

    Published February 4, 2015
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    Responding to constituents’ concerns, a Colorado state lawmaker is aiming to rein in a controversial program allowing police to confiscate and sell citizens’ private property without search warrants or a criminal conviction.

  • An Engaging Recipe for Revitalizing American Society

    Published February 4, 2015
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    Review of What Works: Common Sense Solutions for a Stronger America, by Cal Thomas, Zondervan Publishing House, 2014, 224 pages, ISBN-13: 978-0310339465, $14.29 on Amazon.com, http://www.amazon.

  • Another court challenge to Obamacare?

    Published February 4, 2015
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    My collleague Justin Haskins, who is an editor here at Heartland, has an interesting article over at Breitbart today on yet another court case challening Obamacare.Could This Be the Case That Ends Obamacare?

  • Heartland Institute Joins Coalition Opposing Federal Gas Tax Hike

    Published February 4, 2015
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    Record-low gasoline prices in recent months have spurred some members of Congress to begin proposing increasing the federal tax on gasoline. U.S.

  • The Ghosts of Yalta Still Haunt the World

    Published February 4, 2015
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    Seventy years ago, during the week of February 4-11, 1945, the most momentous conference of the Second World War was held at Yalta in the Crimea between Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin.

  • Heartland Institute Experts React to Gov. Scott Walker’s Opposition to Common Core Testing

    Published February 4, 2015
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    On Tuesday night, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker proposed removing state funding for tests tied to Common Core State Standards, the so-called “Smarter Balanced” test public school students are slated to take to measure performance.

  • Cromnibus Environmental Provisions Stymie Obama Environmental Efforts

    Published February 4, 2015
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    The 1,600-page “Cromnibus” —a blend of "omnibus" and "CR," short for "continuing resolution"— spending bill passed the lame duck Congress in mid-December and was signed into law by President Barack Obama just before Christmas.

  • The Insane Vaccine Debate

    Published February 4, 2015
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    Consumer Power Report #451 The issue of mandatory vaccination is once again an item of debate in media circles given the recent outbreaks of measles and fueled this week by the continued inability of politicians to discuss vaccination policy without

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