The Heartland Institute

Germany's Hans von Storch, one of the world's leading climate scientists, believes that climate change is for real and that humans are responsible. He also believes that we shouldn't fear climate change, that predictions of doom are " hysterical" when they aren't " completely idiotic and dubious," and that many of the science ...

In recent years, members of Congress have inserted thousands of pork-barrel spending projects into bills to reward interests in their home states. But such parochial pork is only a small part of a broader problem of rising federal spending on traditionally state and local activities. Federal spending on aid to the states ...

Members of the Health Policy Consensus Group offer the following guidelines to policymakers for consideration during debate over reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). We also offer a brief summary of our larger vision of expanding access to health insurance. This fact sheet was jointly prepared ...

Personal income is an important economic measure of a state’s well-being. Higher levels of personal income allow a state’s residents to buy more goods and services such as homes, cars, education, and health care. Fundamentally, personal income comes from two sources: the private sector and the public, or government, sector ...

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No response is more predictable than the reflexive squawk of the greenhouse fearmongers that anyone questioning their claims is in the pay of the energy companies. A second, equally predictable retort contrasts the ever-diminishing number of agnostics to the legions of scientists now born again to the truth that anthropogenic ...

Over the last ten years or so, our nation has had a vigorous and open discussion concerning the future of Social Security. Many new ideas have been offered, ideas not developed prior to the onset of the debate. The climate of opinion has changed; more Americans are now aware of the issue, and more Americans want the ...

A significant celebration in Washington DC interrupted the partisan squabbling between President Bush and the Congressional Democrats last week. However, the state visit by Queen Elizabeth II of England commemorating the 400th anniversary of America was not widely reported by the black media. Perhaps blacks’ lack of excitement ...

Many people who saw " An Inconvenient Truth," a global warming documentary featuring Al Gore, immediately became very concerned about global clamite chagne and impending weather disasters. Don't count state climatologist Dr. Charles Wax of Mississippi State University as one of them. ...

A significant celebration in Washington, DC interrupted the partisan squabbling between President George W. Bush and the Congressional Democrats earlier this month. However, the state visit by Queen Elizabeth II of England commemorating the 400th anniversary of America was not widely reported by the black media. Perhaps blacks ...

Bartley J. Madden, bartmadden@yahoo.com, is a Heartland Policy Advisor whose current research focuses on FDA reform, corporate governance, and accounting/valuation issues. Since his retirement as a Managing Director of Credit Suisse in 2003, Madden has written articles that developed a market-based system for access to not-yet ...

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 arenas. It addresses topics of interest to physicians and other medical personnel ...

Those concerned with reforming America s public education system are compelled by three goals: parents want their children to receive a quality education, educators want the tools and flexibility to teach, and school boards and governments demand measurable results such as higher test scores and graduation rates. Oftentimes these ...

Since the passage of the Public Company Account­ing Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002 (the Sarbanes–Oxley Act), small and mid-sized public companies have struggled to comply with its onerous provisions, which created an enormous and dispro­portionate regulatory burden. Most of these costs can be attributed to Section 404 ...

Many former believers in catastrophic man-made global warming have recently reversed themselves and are now climate skeptics. The names included below are just a sampling of the prominent scientists who have spoken out recently to oppose former Vice President Al Gore, the United Nations and the media driven consensus on man ...

Arizona cities are at war with each other in a high-stakes bid to lure such retailers as Cabela s, Cadillac, and Costco. To win the corporate spoils, cities offer incentive packages that include everything from land grants to a share of sales tax revenue. In this bidding game, however, the only winners are the corporations ...

The federal government spent $92 billion in direct and indirect subsidies to businesses and private- sector corporate entities—expenditures commonly referred to as “corporate welfare”—in fiscal year 2006. The definition of business subsidies used in this report is broader than that used by the Department of Commerce’s Bureau ...

No response is more predictable than the reflexive squawk of the Greenhouse fearmongers that anyone questioning their claims is in the pay of the energy companies. A second, equally predictable retort contrasts the ever-diminishing number of agnostics to the growing legions of scientists now born again to the " truth" that anthropogenic ...

President George Bush meets Pope Benedict in June. Some Vatican authorities are lobbying the Pope to press the U.S. administration to act on global warming. " It's not for me to say what the Pope and President Bush should discuss, but certainly they will discuss current issues and therefore I imagine and I hope they will ...

The Legislature enacted 1989 Act 335 as a statewide regulatory and financial assistance program aimed at encouraging, and in some instances requiring, solid waste recycling and reduction. Most of the state's solid waste management, recycling regulation, financial assistance and technical assistance programs are administered by the ...