And if you really believe that the Heartland Institute is "just boiler plate stuff someone thought up", then you show that you took a wrong turn at DU. Those articles are based upon the research of the Heartland institute and any one can see that they are respected enough that two source's I found on a whim trust them... something you may wish to know about the source which you mock, Heartland Institute's site is a public policy-oriented sites dedicated to building and uniting the conservative movement. This is where policy makers, congressional staffers, conservative activists, and media workers regularly come for information and research on a broad array of issues.
So, because I dared to disagree with you, I am from DU? Did you bother to check my profile before you posted that? Your knee jerk reactions give us true conservatives a bad name.