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I Wish Elizabeth Warren Was The Democratic Party’s Future, But She Isn’t

Noam Scheiber’s big piece on Elizabeth Warren is out at TNR, and he starts with the frame of a party divided between her natural political backers and Hillary Clinton’s machine. On one side is a...

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The Financial Collapse of America

“The United States is in very deep trouble. First, the concept of repaying $16.7 trillion in debt is not even a remote possibility over the next 100 years, even if the government had small surpluses....

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Are America’s Best Days Really Ahead?

  Michael J. Lotus America 3.0: Rebooting American Prosperity in the 21st Century tells the story of our nation’s government as crushingly expensive, one that is failing at its basic functions and...

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Entitlement Reform, Tea Party Style

The Tea Party/Republican House majority was elected in 2010 to stop the runaway Obama Progressive Democrat big government spending spree. And it has had a decisive effect in that regard, as recorded in...

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Obama’s Slow Growth Policies Have Stacked The Deck Against American Workers

President Obama told us in his December 4 economic coming out speech on inequality, which the Huffington Post called the most important speech of his presidency: But we know that people’s frustrations...

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The Free Market vs. The Interventionist State

In whatever direction we turn, we find the heavy hand of government intruding into virtually every aspect of American society. Indeed, it has reached the point that it would a lot easier to list those...

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Political Psychopath Test: Paul Ryan vs. Barack Obama

A recent article by Paul Rosenberg in Salon contends that Paul Ryan, the Republican congressman from Wisconsin and erstwhile running mate of Mitt Romney, exhibits many of the hallmarks of a psychopath....

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Depends on When You Were Born

My Father was born in 1901 and was too young for World War One and too old to serve in World War Two. A gentle, quiet man, he would have been a terrible soldier. My older brother, however, was inducted...

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Light at the End of the Tunnel: The Passing of the Age of Obama

Conservatives need to wake up and start thinking past the rapidly passing age of Obama. Increasingly likely every day is that voters this November will remove Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader. By...

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Four Arguments in Favor of Legislative Term Limits

Limiting the term of office served by elected politicians has been a controversial issue in the United States for many years. At one time the federal government had no term limits, with the president...

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“Room To Grow” Blind To The Most Important Issue For The Middle Class —...

In 1900, we had no airplanes, no computers, no cellphones, no internet. We had only rudimentary versions of cars, trucks, telephones, even cameras. As Stephen Moore and Julian L. Simon report in their...

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Ryan Leads On Welfare Reform And Fighting Poverty

No one in Washington is taking the lead in addressing poverty and welfare reform like House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan. Almost alone, he has noted that this year marks the 50th anniversary of...

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Fear the Day Government’s Great Fiction Lies Exposed

“Government is the great fiction through which everyone endeavors to live at the expense of everyone else,” wrote the celebrated French legislator, economist, and political theorist Frederic Bastiat...

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Winning Freedom Requires Radical Solutions

Suppose that there was a button in front of you that if you pushed it would, in one instant, abolish all the governmental controls and regulations on the U.S. economy. Would you push that button, and...

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Congress Pays For Entitlement Expansion With Cut To Penis Pumps

“I don’t even know what this is! This sort of thing ain’t my bag, baby.” The House and Senate are preparing to vote on the “Achieving a Better Life Experience” (ABLE) Act, a bipartisan bill that...

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We’re Number Two

The U.S. was the world’s number one economy prior to World War II, but it took off bigtime after the war and there has not been a day of my long life in which we were not number one—until now.  The...

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CBO Report: Social Security Going Bankrupt Faster Under Obama

At a town hall meeting in Columbus, Ohio in 2010, President Barack Obama ensured the worried audience that “Social Security is not in crisis.”  Obama was wrong. Not only is Social Security in the worst...

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Heartland’s Peter Ferrara on NYC Talk Radio: Our Looming Entitlement Crisis

On Sunday, April 5, Senior Fellow Peter Ferrara was a guest on the radio show “On The Money” with host Mike Vitoria on 970 The Answer in New York City. Ferrara was on to discuss America’s looming...

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Heartland Daily Podcast – Peter Ferrara: Entitlement Crisis

In Today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, we listen in as Senior Fellow Peter Ferrara talks with Inside Track radio. Ferrara was on to discuss, among other things, the GOP budget proposal and...

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Heartland Daily Podcast – Peter Ferrara: Power to the People, Entitlement Reform

In Today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, we listen in as Senior Fellow Peter Ferrara joins The Joyce Kaufman Show to talk about his upcoming book, Power to the People: The New Road to Freedom...

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