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Heartland Weekly Email: Clean Power Plan Will Cause Brown Outs and Black Outs
written by Donald Kendal August 7, 2015
Donald Kendal
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If you don't visit Somewhat Reasonable and the Heartlander digital magazine every day, you're missing out on some of the best news and commentary on liberty and free markets you can find. But worry not, freedom lovers! The Heartland Weekly Email is here for you every Friday with a highlight show. Subscribe to the email today, and read this week's edition below.
On August 22: Help The Heartland Institute Celebrate the Grand Opening of Its New Home!
You are invited to The Heartland Institute's Grand Opening celebration of our new home in Arlington Heights, Illinois. Join us for our all-day barbecue on Saturday, August 22! Enjoy free hamburgers and hotdogs from the grill, ice cream, fun activities for the kids, prize giveaways every hour … and fellowship with Heartland staffers and fellow lovers of liberty from around the country. Don't miss an event that marks the beginning of a new era in the history of The Heartland Institute! READ MORE
Keeping it Simple: The Value of an Irreducibly Simple Climate Model
Christopher Monckton et al., Science Bulletin
Science Bulletin, a publication of the Chinese Academy of Science, has just published a new a paper by global warming skeptics Christopher Monckton, Willie Soon, David Legates, and William M. Briggs titled "Keeping it Simple: The Value of an Irreducibly Simple Climate Model." The paper responds to criticism of an article published in January in Science Bulletin by the same authors, titled "Why models run hot," explaining why the United Nations' climate models have overstated the human contribution to global warming. READ MORE
Clean Power Plan Will Cause Brown Outs and Black Outs
H. Sterling Burnett, et al.
President Barack Obama is keeping his word when it comes to destroying the coal industry, as Heartland experts noted in this press release on Monday. Heartland Institute Research Fellow H. Sterling Burnett wrote, "Obama took a terrible plan and made it worse… ensuring more power plants shut down earlier resulting in an even greater threat of brown outs and black outs. Obama must really hate coal miners and coal-fired power plant workers because he's doing everything he can to put them out of work and in the food line. READ MORE
Featured Podcast: The 50th Unhappy Anniversary of Medicare
Devon Herrick, senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, joins Health Care News managing editor Kenneth Artz to talk about the 50th anniversary of Medicare. Artz and Herrick discuss how the program has grown dramatically larger than what Congress intended in 1965, due in large part to improved life expectancy, and thus more seniors receiving Medicare benefits for longer periods of time. LISTEN TO MORE
Watch the Tenth International Conference on Climate Change!
The Heartland Institute's Tenth International Conference on Climate Change (#ICCC10) was another huge success. You can watch the entire conference online at climateconference.heartland.org. Watch the full panels composed of some of the leading climate scientists and energy policy experts as well as keynote addresses by Sen. Jim Inhofe, Rep. Lamar Smith, and author Mark Steyn. SEE WHAT YOU MISSED!
Despite Problems, Mississippi Education Savings Accounts Show Promise
Jeff Reynolds, The Heartlander
"This law represents a dramatic leap forward in the way we educate students with special needs, and more broadly, the way we think about public education in Mississippi," said Grant Callen, president of Empower Mississippi. "In this age of innovation and personalization, why not allow parents the freedom to customize an education that they determine is right for their child?" READ MORE
Report: Rich States, Poor States – Choices Matter
Jesse Hathaway, The Hill
Instead of doubling down on outdated policy ideas such as raising taxes and increasing government spending, state governments facing budget crises should look to successful states for ideas on how to jumpstart their own economies and reverse population declines. Fortunately, there are resources they can use to make the case for innovation in government. READ MORE
Fear the 'Cadillac Tax'
Matthew Glans, Research & Commentary
Since its inception, the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) has been plagued by legal, financial, and technological problems, many of which remain unaddressed. One of the issues looming on the horizon in 2018 is the so-called "Cadillac tax," a 40 percent non-deductible excise tax on certain employer-sponsored health plans. In what some would call ironic justice, public-sector employers are poised to be hardest hit. Thank your Union Label. READ MORE
Bonus Podcast: Paulette Rakestraw on the Compact for America
Jesse Hathaway, managing editor of Budget & Tax News, talks with Georgia state Rep. Paulette Rakestraw (R-Powder Springs), commissioner of the Compact for a Balanced Budget, about the Compact for America, an innovative new idea to bring the skyrocketing national deficit and debt into check. LISTEN HERE
Number of Homeschoolers Increases Nationally
Chris Neal, The Heartlander
There is a growing movement in America to seek out alternatives to traditional public schooling. A recent report by the National Catholic Register found a 62 percent increase in homeschooling between 2003 and 2012. Why are families fleeing public schools? To secure a better education for their children. READ MORE
Heartland on TV: How Obama's Clean Power Plan Will Hurt Consumers
Heartland Policy Advisor Steve Goreham, author of The Mad, Mad, Mad, World of Climatism, was a guest on WTTW's ChicagoTonight this week explaining the consequences of President Obama's Clean Power Plan. Goreham told viewers of Chicago's flagship local PBS news program that the plan will cause electricity costs to increase while having little or no effect on global temperatures. WATCH MORE
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Heartland Weekly Email: Clean Power Plan Will Cause Brown Outs and Black Outs was last modified: August 7th, 2015 by Donald Kendal
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