Ken McIntyre, a 30-year veteran of national and local newspapers, served as an editor at The Daily Signal. Send an email to Ken.
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The Heritage Foundation never has been more important than it is today, especially in raising up “the next generation of conservative leaders,” says the first… Read More
The thought keeps coming to mind: First lady Michelle Obama is a natural to champion the 1,700 D.C. schoolchildren from low-income families whose tickets out of… Read More
The Obama administration this week again questioned the workability of America’s still-developing defenses against intercontinental ballistic missiles. Only days earlier, though, the U.S. commander in… Read More
“So my whole goal over the next four years,” President Barack Obama said Monday night at the end of his first prime-time White House news… Read More
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Maintaining and modernizing our armed forces doesn’t just protect America, it fulfills the Constitution’s mandate to “provide for the common defense.” Yet the defense budget… Read More
Tax reform, not reckless government spending, is the way to revive the ailing U.S. economy. American entrepreneurs and businesses carry heavy taxes on their backs… Read More
“A Conservative,” that anonymous scribe within Heritage, surfaces again for the second time in three days with a cautionary tale for the Big Three about… Read More
Just in time for today’s recognition of Bill of Rights Day, the anonymous scribe within The Heritage Foundation — self-identified only as “A Conservative” — pushed the… Read More
Another electronic circular with the nameplate “New Common Sense” burst forth from other corridors of The Heritage Foundation late Friday. This one, again anonymously signed “A Conservative,” … Read More
Here’s an encouraging note as Thanksgiving gatherings give way to Christmas shopping during the current economic meltdown: When older adults feel grateful for what they… Read More
He or she is at it again. An electronic circular, originating elsewhere at Heritage and signed only “A Conservative,” marks Thanksgiving by recalling the Pilgrims’ fleeting flirtation… Read More
Here’s one that’s a little hard even for media folks to figure. Out of the blue, the Associated Press quietly issued a new style rule… Read More
Americans would do well to ponder the unrelieved strains on the nation’s military readiness on this Veterans Day, one short week after the election of… Read More
It looks more and more like Joe the Plumber was on to something about taxes, though you wouldn’t know if from most of the polls… Read More
Sarah Palin maybe forgot to mention this in the debate, but we’re sort of having a pop culture election a month before the presidential one…. Read More
If Rick Warren hoped to spark more light than heat at the presidential forum he conducted Saturday evening at his California megachurch, then he succeeded…. Read More
For years, he worked tirelessly to tell the stories of the courage shown — and horrors endured — by the tens of millions who lived… Read More
Widespread ignorance of U.S. history is only the most visible symptom of a troubling decline in popular knowledge of the nation’s core principles. Some hopeful… Read More
Negative stereotypes of American fathers — that they’re either couch potatoes or workaholics who are “never there” for the wife and kids — don’t hold… Read More
Those urging Congress to pass the Lieberman-Warner bill say it would slow global warming by capping carbon dioxide emissions. However, more and more studies —… Read More
The typical hurricane does $5.13 billion worth of damage in America and strikes less than twice a year. But Hurricane J.J. is no ordinary hurricane…. Read More
