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May 21, 2012 - Don't you just love it when justice prevails?  When right makes might?  When the perps get caught red-handed?  I know I do, and so it is with great, if inappropriate, glee that I inform you of a mass departure of both donors and staff from the Heartland Institute (HI).  The Unabomber billboard has proved to be their downfall, if not their undoing.  In fact, Heartland has lost more than 35% of pledged but uncollected funds for the year 2012, according to the campaign group Forecast the Facts.  In an admirable attempt at piling on, Forecast is urging corporate donors to boycott Heartland. Not only have funds suddenly dried up, but staffers at Heartland's Washington, D.C. office have exited in disgust, putting an end to a major project overseen by Eli Lehrer, the former Washington office director.  Lehrer, who has himself resigned, lost all but one of his office staff in the billboard brouhaha.  As a result, Heartland's much t...