As politicians such as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spout socialistic rhetoric and promote disastrous policies, Glenn Beck provides a powerful message about America’s past, present, and future. The following presentation was delivered at The Heartland Institute’s 35th Anniversary Benefit Dinner in October 2019 in suburban […]
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According to a new poll by The Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports, media darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is not very popular among likely voters, including Democrats and those who favor socialism. The poll of 1,000 likely voters, conducted December 6-7, 2020, shows that most Americans are not fond of […]
Despite a barrage of talking points from talking heads that the Green New Deal (GND) is the silver bullet to prevent environmental degradation, it turns out the exact opposite is true. According to a new Heartland Institute Policy Brief, “Protecting the Environment from the Green New Deal,” by Paul Driessen, […]
Newly discovered documents show presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, a U.S. senator representing Vermont, made controversial and offensive remarks about police officers in an interview conducted in the 1980s with a communist newspaper operated by the Socialist Workers Party. The find was made this week by Heartland Institute Editorial Director and […]
The following is a national survey of likely voters published by The Heartland Institute, a national free-market think tank, and Rasmussen Reports, one of America’s leading polling firms. The survey is published here publicly for the first time. It will also be published by Rasmussen Reports on November 25 or […]
Many of my friends have long referred to environmentalists as “watermelons”—green on the outside, red on the inside. The idea is that because communism and socialism (interchangeable political/economic systems in practice) have visibly failed everywhere they’ve been imposed, doctrinaire socialist zealots, being unable to accept reality, have embraced environmental causes […]
Despite popular belief (according to Wikipedia and the public school system) that Adolf Hitler was a far-right conservative, he was actually a far-left socialist who used his unfettered power to suppress freedom, murder millions, and instigate the most destructive war in human history. Hitler was the leader of the Nationalsozialistische […]
After more than two centuries of (somewhat) limited government in the United States, is the tide turning against individual freedom and state sovereignty in favor of an empowered collective and unfettered federal power? According to recent polls, a large number of Americans (especially Millennials) prefer the latter. Millions of Americans […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) recently introduced the Loan Shark Prevention Act, which they claim will end the plague of unfettered, unscrupulous usury in the United States. “Under the legislation we are introducing today, we would establish a national usury rate to make sure that no […]
Many Democrats are becoming more open about their socialist inclinations, although they still tell fairy tales about socialism’s ability to make the world a better place. Socialism kills. From the former Soviet Union to Cuba, from North Korea to Venezuela, everywhere socialism has been tried it has robbed people of […]
The 2018 midterms could someday be remembered as the beginning of the Democratic Party’s full embrace of creating a single-payer health care system in the United States. For the first time in American history, a large number of Democrats, many of whom identify as socialists, openly campaigned for the creation […]
Friedrich Hayek, writing when support for capitalism was near its nadir in 1949, believed “socialist thought owes its appeal to the young largely to its visionary character; the very courage to indulge in Utopian thought is in this respect a source of strength to the socialists which traditional liberalism sadly […]
After months of promising a November “blue wave,” Democrats’ chances of taking back Congress are shrinking by the day. Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp is on track to lose her seat in North Dakota by double-digits. A recent New York Times/Siena poll has Republican senatorial candidate Marsha Blackburn ahead by more […]