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  • Transparency Is the Key to Government Accountability

    Published October 25, 2007
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    It’s an honor to be here today at The Heartland Institute’s Fourth Annual Emerging Issues Forum.
  • The Problems with Rural Telecom Subsidies

    Published October 25, 2007
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    In October 2007 I had the privilege of attending the annual Rural Telecom Conference, or Rural TeleCon, held this year in Springfield, Illinois.
  • Massachusetts v. EPA: Down a Dangerous Path

    Published October 25, 2007
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    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is poised to regulate greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) from mobile sources--which is to say, they are poised to create fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks.
  • Key Global Warming Facts

    Published October 25, 2007
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    The Earth’s warming since 1850 totals about 0.7 degrees C. Most of this occurred before 1940. The cause: a long, moderate 1,500-year climate cycle first discovered in the Greenland ice cores in 1983.
  • Consumer Power Report #101

    Published October 24, 2007
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    Consumer Power Report, written by Greg Scandlen, director of Consumers for Health Care Choices at The Heartland Institute, is a weekly report summarizing recent developments on consumer-directed health care in the media, legislative, and regulatory
  • 1934 Is Once Again Our Hottest Year

    Published October 24, 2007
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    A global warming believer told me, "Of course global warming is dangerous. Every year gets hotter than the year before." Until recently that is, when NASA's Goddard Institute announced it had to revise its U.S.
  • Veto Preserves Original Intent of SCHIP

    Published October 24, 2007
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    “House Sustains President’s Veto on Child Health” (Oct. 19) recognizes the stark differences between those on each side of the SCHIP decision. Yet, common ground does exist.
  • SCHIP Victory for Smokers Only Temporary

    Published October 24, 2007
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    In a preliminary victory for much-maligned cigarette smokers and all Americans who value their few remaining freedoms, puffers have dodged the Congressional excise-tax bullet for the short term(“Bush Veto of Child Health Bill Sustained ,
  • Skeptics Help Us Search for Truth

    Published October 24, 2007
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    When global warming alarmists condemn skeptics as deniers, it is an unscientific and socially dangerous characterization. Skeptics are not the enemy. On the contrary, they are crucial to science because they help us search for truth.
  • Failure to Warm

    Published October 22, 2007
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    At its simplest, the relationship between the solar magnetic field strength and the Earth’s climate is this: lower magnetic field strength means few sunspots, fewer sunspots means less solar wind, less solar wind means more galactic cosmic rays,
  • Consumer Power Report #100

    Published October 19, 2007
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    Consumer Power Report, written by Greg Scandlen, director of Consumers for Health Care Choices at The Heartland Institute, is a weekly report summarizing recent developments on consumer-directed health care in the media, legislative, and regulatory
  • What Scientists Really Say about Global Warming

    Published October 18, 2007
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    Utah's Sutherland Institute is mailing to state citizens 10,000 copies of survey results of what climate scientists really say about global warming – and global warming alarmists don't like it one bit.
  • Media Alert: George Will Rebuts Global Warming Alarmism

    Published October 18, 2007
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    George Will Rebuts Global Warming Alarmism In his latest biweekly column in Newsweek magazine (circ. 3,118,432), Pulitzer Prize-winning writer George F.
  • A Turning Point in the Global Warming Debate?

    Published October 18, 2007
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    August 2007 may go down in the history of science as the month when scientific research made a decisive turn away from dubious warnings of climate catastrophes and toward a much different thesis, that the modern warming is moderate and not man-made.
  • Our Moderate Climate Crisis

    Published October 18, 2007
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    Ours is a truly strange global warming crisis. The warming has been only about 0.7 degrees C, spread over 150 years. Our ancestors lived through much more dramatic climate changes.
  • War Taxes Last Long After the Battle Ends

    Published October 16, 2007
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    Congressmen David Obey (D-WI), John Murtha (D-PA), and Jim McGovern (D-MA) have presented a plan for a “war tax” on income to fund military operations in Iraq.
  • Bush SCHIP Veto Helps Minnesota’s Poor

    Published October 16, 2007
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    On October 3, The Associated Press reported that President Bush vetoed the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) expansion bill because he believes it will open the floodgates for socialized health care in America (“Bush Vetoes Bill To Expand
  • Bush Has Good Reasons to Veto SCHIP Expansion

    Published October 16, 2007
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    “Showdown Looms as Child Health Care Passes,” (Sept. 28) does not address the problems with the current State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)--problems which explain the president’s rationale for vetoing it.
  • SCHIP Designed for Kids but Adults Swell Enrollment

    Published October 16, 2007
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    In “Override the SCHIP veto,” (Oct. 5) the Tribune editorial staff urges Republican representatives in Illinois to look at the facts. Unfortunately, the editorial misses them.
  • Wal-Mart Is Still Good for Consumers, Workers

    Published October 16, 2007
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    Gary McWilliams’ front page article about Wal-Mart’s demise as a retail giant did not cover the whole story (“Wal-Mart Era Wanes Amid Big Shifts In Retail”, October 3).
  • Private Sector Is the Real Answer to Poverty

    Published October 16, 2007
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    In Mary Carmichael’s otherwise-excellent piece on remedies for Third World poverty (“Giving Globally: The Search for Solutions,” October 1) she gave short shrift to economic development and growth.
  • Privatized Health Care, Not Health Scares

    Published October 16, 2007
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    The Tribune’s coverage of county board proceedings helps us figure out which are the least obscene of the proposed taxes (“City Sales Tax Hike On Hold,” October 1).
  • Media Statement: Heartland Institute Deplores Nobel Foundation Choice of Albert Gore and the IPCC

    Published October 12, 2007
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    (Chicago, Illinois - October 12, 2007) Early this morning (U.S.
  • Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly #6-14

    Published October 12, 2007
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    Case of Beer Perusing some 1,500 decisions penned by Michael B. Mukasey, the nominee for U.S.

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