Articles by James Carafano

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Not Time to Panic, Time to Get Ready

James Carafano | August 27, 2009

The White House splashed news about an advisory panel report predicting 90,000 would die from the swine flu this fall. Today, the press is reporting… Read More

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Schumer’s Amnesty Trojan Horse

James Carafano | August 26, 2009

Ruben Navarrette has a thoughtful op-ed in today’s USA Today that tries to dissect the problem with immigration and border security reform. What we are… Read More

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Immigration: In Case You Are Wondering, Nobody Asked

James Carafano | August 24, 2009

According to press reports, last week about 130 “reform” advocates and leaders were asked to come over to the White House and pow-pow on the… Read More

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Obama Promises Immigration Alamo

James Carafano | August 13, 2009

The New York Times reported August 10th: “President Obama on Monday reiterated his commitment to pursuing comprehensive immigration reform, despite his packed political agenda….” He… Read More

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Live Blog: Sen. Mark Begich (D-AK)

James Carafano | July 22, 2009

Sen. Mark Begich (D-AK), member of Armed Services Committee, is about to speak at here at Heritage about missile defense. Why? Because the missiles don’t… Read More

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Live Blog: Newt at Heritage

James Carafano | July 20, 2009

Former Speaker Newt Gingrich is speaking live at Heritage Foundation right now. Newt’s address caps Heritage Foundation’s Protect America Month that started with a speech… Read More

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Ping Pong Politics Over CIA

James Carafano | July 15, 2009

Playing politics with national security is always a bad idea. It’s been hard to tell that watching the back-and-forth in Washington over the role of… Read More

 

Morning Bell: Providing for the Common Defense Uncommon in White House

James Carafano | July 01, 2009

Though the President made a big deal about Father’s Day, on national security issues the White House continues to look like an absent father. What… Read More

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Liveblogging Obama’s Detainee Speech: Continuity You Can Believe In

James Carafano | May 21, 2009

There is far more continuity than change in the detention policies between the administrations-by not admitting that the president risks compromising his credibility.

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Liveblogging Obama’s Detainee Speech: Obama Can’t Stop Campaigning

James Carafano | May 21, 2009

When will the president realize he can’t govern by continuing to run a campaign against the last president? Obama faces the challenges as Bush. In… Read More

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Liveblogging Obama’s Detainee Speech: I Didn’t Do It

James Carafano | May 21, 2009

Now we have gotten to the Bart Simpson part of the speech “I didn’t do it.” Obama simply condemns the previous administration policies….but if the… Read More

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Liveblogging Obama’s Detainee Speech: What is Obama Reading?

James Carafano | May 21, 2009

The president’s speech hits again and again on the dual obligation of keeping the nation free and safe-sounds like he read our book-Winning the Long… Read More

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Liveblogging Obama’s Detainee Speech: Charting Freedom

James Carafano | May 21, 2009

It makes perfect sense to make a speech about battling terrorism standing in front of the charters of freedom-kudos to the president for the symbolism…. Read More

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Liveblogging Obama’s Detainee Speech: Pushed from Left and Right

James Carafano | May 21, 2009

It is easy to take the middle road when you are being pushed so hard by the right and the left on combating terrorism. This… Read More

 

National Security Photo-Op Flip-Flop

James Carafano | May 13, 2009

It would all make for a great half-hour sitcom. First, they released classified memos on interrogation practices used to grill terrorists. Then, the White House… Read More

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Reporting on Missile Test Fails

James Carafano | April 10, 2009

The April 6, William Broad article “North Korean Missile Launch Was a Failure, Experts Say” in the New York Times diminishes the scope of the… Read More

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Missing Pieces in Missile Defense

James Carafano | April 03, 2009

Is the Obama administration taking North Korea’s threat to launch a long-range missile seriously enough? With North Korea poised to launch as early as this… Read More

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Heritage Fellow At The Border: Fighting Back

James Carafano | March 25, 2009

I finish my trip to the border with the Pima County Sherriff Department by asking the tough questions. Are you making a difference? “We are… Read More

 

Heritage Fellow At The Border: Driving the Border

James Carafano | March 25, 2009

Landing just north of the border we meet up with a ground unit to drive some of the busiest smuggling routes. I ride with a… Read More

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Heritage Fellow At The Border: Heading South

James Carafano | March 25, 2009

Lieutenant Palmer, the head of the Pima County Border Crime Unit, arranges for me to fly with his helicopter team down to the border. It… Read More

 

Heritage Fellow At The Border: With the Border Crime Unit

James Carafano | March 24, 2009

My first encounter with the Pima County Border Crime Unit was meeting with Lieutenant Jeffrey Palmer who heads up the two squads that work across… Read More

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Heritage Fellow At The Border: On Guard

James Carafano | March 24, 2009

With a couple of hundred deputies, the Pima County Sheriffs office has to police most of the county and safeguard almost half of its population… Read More

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Heritage Fellow At The Border: Wake-Up Call

James Carafano | March 24, 2009

In 2007, a group of bandits looking to hijack a competitor’s drug load mistakenly opened fire on 23 illegal immigrants, including three small children, hidden… Read More

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Heritage Fellow At The Border: Casualties of War

James Carafano | March 24, 2009

Pima County sees the spillover from the cartel’s battling for control of the smuggling corridors in to the United States everyday. About 15 percent of… Read More

 

Heritage Fellow At The Border: Cartel Tactics

James Carafano | March 24, 2009

The character of the cartel war as seen in Pima County can be brutal. One “bandit” tactic is to organize small teams that camp out… Read More

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Heritage Fellow On the Front Lines

James Carafano | March 23, 2009

Heritage senior fellow James Carafano recently traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border and filed a series of reports which will be featured here throughout the week…. Read More

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Heritage Fellow Patrols the Border

James Carafano | March 23, 2009

Heritage senior fellow James Carafano recently traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border and filed a series of reports which will be featured here throughout the week…. Read More

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Wasting Homeland Security Dollars

James Carafano | March 13, 2009

In a first of its kind, a report from The Heritage Foundation provides a fresh look at the billions of dollars in homeland security grants… Read More

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Weird Science from NYT

James Carafano | March 12, 2009

Only the New York Times op-ed page could offer two ridiculous and obviously contradictory statements in two succeeding sentences and believe it was making sense…. Read More

 

Waste of a Speech

James Carafano | March 05, 2009

Yesterday, President Obama declared that in addition to solving all of the country’s other ills that he was going to eliminate government waste. His target—defense… Read More