The Heartland Institute

Global warming alarmists and skeptics alike report Heartland Institute Senior Fellow James M. Taylor scored a decisive victory over Ray Bellamy, an official presenter for Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, in a global warming debate in Tallahassee, Florida. “A number of attendees had their viewpoint about climate change not being ...

Author and consultant Larry Downes discusses his latest paper, "A Rational Response to the Privacy ‘Crisis.’" ...

Germany's central bank plans to bring back to Germany almost 700 tons of gold reserves it keeps in New York and Paris. By 2020, half of its gold bars will be in its vaults, the Deutsche Bundesbank said in its January 16 announcement. It currently keeps less than a third at home. The bars were originally taken out of ...

Global warming will benefit most Arctic species, a team of scientists report in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS One . The scientists found global warming will allow most Arctic species to expand their ranges and no species are expected to go extinct. The study delivers a sharp blow to global warming activists who have been ...

It didn’t take long for trial lawyers to begin trying to profit from the Newtown massacre. A New Haven lawyer filed a $100 million claim against the state of Connecticut (which would be taken from taxpayers, of course), alleging the state failed to protect students at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. Residents were outraged ...

Friday's ed news: 1. Parents have pulled another Parent Trigger , this time in Los Angeles. 2. Indianapolis' reactionary school superintendent retires . 3. Minnesota may be poised to adopt revisionist history standards . 4. Pennsylvania schools losing students to charters are spending money not on improving but on ads to get the ...