Before introducing Keith Koenman, Jim Lakely, Heartland's Communications Director, in holding up a magazine with Heartland splashed across its cover, assured those present that this publication about  trucks and heavy equipment was not a Heartland publication!  After "breaking the ice," Lakely went on to explain five happenings of merit at Heartland, both past and future.



1.  The Milt Rosenberg show has returned as a podcast which will feature long-form interviews with…

By Alan Caruba

Among the greatest liars on Earth today is the international organization called Friends of the Earth (FOE). It has engaged in the most scurrilous fear-mongering for decades, along with Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, and the World Wildlife Fund, while all the time they pulled in billions in funding.

By Alan Caruba

How is it that, time and again, the most powerful man on the planet doesn’t seem to have a clue what is happening in his own government? Famed for never accepting blame for anything, the more I see President Obama these days, the more I am reminded of Sergeant Hans Schultz of the TV…

Part 2: 'Education and Capitalism'

By Alan Caruba

The resistance to Obamacare is writing a new chapter in U.S. history. It may well become the most unpopular law since Prohibition became an Amendment to the Constitution in 1919. By 1933, another Amendment repealed it.

Obamacare passed by a straight Democratic party vote on Christmas Eve in 2009. No Republican voted for it and, as one poll recently revealed, a third of Americans are still unaware it is the law of the land. A divided Supreme Court gave it a pass,…

Letters to the Editor published, Wednesday, May 1, in the Lake County News-Sun and Friday, April 26, as a Fence Post letter  in the Lake County Daily Herald.

Proposed Internet Tax

Recently Senator Durbin was successful in obtaining a test vote in the U.S. for what is officially known as the Market Fairness Act of 2013 (referred to as the “Internet…

By Alan Caruba

In Part 1, "Immigration Reform a Monstrosity," it was revealed that the business community and labor unions hashed out a new work-visa program to allow up to 200,000 low-skill workers to come to the U.S.  Furthermore, that the legislation creates a framework for legalization of an estimated 11 million people unlawfully present in the U.S., as well as to anyone who was present in the U.S. before 2012, with no proof required to prove that applicants have been here for several years. …