Regulation

The Emperor Has No Clothes: The Truth about Secondhand Smoke

• Nathan Benefield
• July 13, 2008

Short paper from the Heartland Institute (click here for PDF) on the science of second hand smoke – including the oft-repeated claim about the number of deaths due to…

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Taxes & Economy

Power surge in Nashville

• June 20, 2008

Shortly after the release of Al Gore’s Academy Award-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth, one of our sister think tanks, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, discovered Gore’s home energy…

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Regulation

Smoke, Lies, and the Nanny State

• Nathan Benefield
• May 10, 2008

Here is an interesting read on the science of smoking and smoking bans, with plenty of additional resources listed in the end, written by Joe Jackson (yes, that…

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Education

Bevy of School Choice Articles/Research

• Nathan Benefield
• May 1, 2008

A number of articles came across my email and blog reader, and I decided to put them all into one post. The Philadelphia Bulletin has a write-up…

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Education

The Real Cost of Public Schools

• Nathan Benefield
• April 7, 2008

Andrew Coulson has an article in the Washington Post and a more detailed version on the Cato-at-liberty blog contrasting public school spending ($24,000 per pupil) and private school…

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The Global Warming Test

• Nathan Benefield
• August 26, 2007

What do you know about Global Warming? Take the Global Warming Test from the Heartland Institute.

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Renewed push on health care planned

• Nathan Benefield
• August 6, 2007

The Patriot News reports that Governor Rendell will continue to push his health care tax. Meanwhile, other state legislatures are taking up free-market health care reform (often to fight…

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Secondhand Smoke Facts

• Nathan Benefield
• July 10, 2007

Some more resources on the scientific evidence of second hand smoke, for legislators considering a smoking ban – see also our Policy Point on Smoking Bans: Secondhand Smoke…

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Regulation

Smoking Bans

• July 10, 2007

The effort to ban smoking in restaurants, bars, and private businesses is a product of bad science and worse economics.

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