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Joseph Fletcher, Ph.D. Discusses Climate Change
Gary Sharp, scientific director for the Center for Climate/Ocean Resources Study in Salinas, California, introduces this lecture on climate change by Joseph Fletcher, Ph.D. Dr. Fletcher, who died on...
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Forecasting Expert Challenges NYT’s Paul Krugman on Climate Change
The New York Times published, online and in its print edition, the following letter to the editor concerning climate change by forecasting expert J. Scott Armstrong, whose testimony before a...
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Check out ‘London Burning: The Apotheosis of Statism’
Some of us here at The Heartland Institute have been corresponding about the riots in London and what it might mean for the U.S. Sam Karnick, Heartland’s research director, has written a very...
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Will Scott Walker Bring ‘Good-Paying’ Jobs to Wisconsin?
I’ve been carrying on conversations with family members in Wisconsin (yes, I’m a born-and-raised cheesehead) concerning Gov. Scott Walker’s budget reform measures. Most of my family agrees with what he...
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Giving Privatization a Bad Name?
As most of you know, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has been doing some amazing things with respect to public-sector unions. Heartland President Joe Bast and I both are Wisconsinites, and most of our...
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Fakegate versus Climategate
Peter Gleick, disgraced by his own actions in Fakegate On February 14, environmental groups and sympathetic journalists reported that confidential documents were stolen from The Heartland Institute. It...
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Some Variety in Hospital Pricing Makes Sense
I’m no economist. But I was annoyed by a recent article in the Chicago Tribune reporting a new federal survey of hospital prices. I wanted Tribune readers to think a little more critically about that...
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Liberals focus on happy thoughts? Really?
Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass, whose writing I commend heartily to readers of Somewhat Reasonable, this morning called my attention to some fascinating research reported recently in Mother...
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Was it Something I Said, Melissa Johnson?
Apparently I offended an administrative staffer for the Booker T. Washington National Monument. Sorry! In a recent article for Environment & Climate News, Heartland Senior Fellow James M. Taylor...
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I received another one of those remarkable emails this morning. You know, the kind that make you wonder about the people teaching at universities these days. Geoffrey Clay Godfrey, apparently a...
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What Is It About Global Warming
I may never understand what it is about the global warming debate that causes people I presume are perfectly reasonable and civil in many aspects of their daily lives to write such inaccurate,...
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RIP Michael Crichton: You’re Still Right
I was looking at my calendar a couple days ago and noticed Friday, November 4, marks the day author Michael Crichton died, at the age of 66, in 2008. Crichton took a lot of heat during his career, in...
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A Moving Tribute to Entrepreneurs
Last night, The Heartland Institute’s “movie night” featured The Call of the Entrepreneur, a beautifully filmed tribute to entrepreneurship and the essential role it plays in securing the blessings of...
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Long-Term Care … or the Things You Think About When Retirement Looms
As friends of The Heartland Institute and visitors to Freedom Pub know, Heartland cofounder Joe Bast and I are planning to step down from our day-to-day roles at Heartland in 2018. We have named a new...
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‘Hate Speech’ Makes for a Fascinating Discussion
Image of young rebellious man with megaphone during street protest Yesterday evening, I attended a debate hosted by the National Constitution Center (NCC) in conjunction with The Federalist Society and...
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