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11 Instances of Defensive Gun Use Dramatize Wisdom of Second Amendment
In recent decades, gun control advocates increasingly have tried to rewrite history by asserting that the Second Amendment—despite its plain text—never was supposed to protect a “right of the people” to keep and bear arms, but rather grants to state governments only the authority to maintain militias. The latest purveyor of this objectively false narrative… -
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Biden, Harris Meet With ‘Tennessee 3’ to Push Gun Control
President Joe Biden met Monday with three Tennessee state legislators at the White House, two of whom were temporarily expelled from the Tennessee House of Representatives after staging a raucous protest in the chamber. Their colleagues expelled state Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson after they interrupted a legislative session by shouting through a bullhorn…. -
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Kamala Harris Claims Trump ‘Broke’ Border and Biden Is ‘Attempting to Fix It’
Border security experts say Vice President Kamala Harris’s claim that the Trump administration “dismantled” and “broke” America’s immigration system is nothing more than deflection. “This is an example of what is known in psychology is deflection—blaming others for what you yourself have done,” Andrew Arthur, resident fellow in law and policy at the Center for… -
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Read Tucker Carlson’s Speech Delivered After Last Fox News Show
The following is a lightly edited transcript of a speech delivered Friday night at The Heritage Foundation’s 50th anniversary gala celebration at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Maryland, by now-former Fox News talk-show host Tucker Carlson. It’s followed by a short dialogue between Carlson and Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts…. -
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Heritage President Kevin Roberts Responds to Tucker Carlson Leaving Fox News
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts expressed shock Monday at the news that Fox News had parted ways with prime-time host Tucker Carlson earlier in the day, and reiterated his offer to give Carlson a job if he needs one. Roberts also noted that Carlson spoke at Heritage’s 50th anniversary gala Friday… -
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Republicans Need to Stop Being Cowards on Abortion
How many voters know that the Democratic Party supports legalized abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, on demand for virtually any reason? How many voters know this position aligns with only six other countries in the world—three of them, not incidentally, being North Korea, Vietnam, and China? How many voters know that Democrats want… -
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Heritage Research on Rogue Prosecutors Cited by GOP House Members at NYC Crime Hearing
Manhattan’s rogue prosecutor, Alvin Bragg, has become a household name from his indictment of former President Donald Trump. And on April 17, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing in New York City to highlight Bragg’s soft-on-crime approach and relied in part on The Heritage Foundation’s “rogue prosecutor” research to rebut claims made by the… -
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‘Unprecedented’: Biden Evacuates Sudan, Marking Third US Embassy Withdrawal. 16,000 Americans Left Behind.
The U.S. military evacuated official personnel from the embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday as civil unrest, crime, terrorism, and armed conflict plague the country. However, State Department officials indicate that because of the violence, the U.S. government might not help to evacuate as many as 16,000 Americans who remain. “That the U.S. was unprepared and… -
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GOP Introduces Bill to Address ‘One of the Greatest Security Threats Facing the American People,’ Rep. Mark Green Says
After more than 5 million illegal alien encounters along the southern border since President Joe Biden took office, “it is clear this administration does not have operational control,” the head of the House Homeland Security Committee says. Because of the ongoing crisis at the southern border, which Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., calls “one of… -
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Here’s an Agency That, Despite Its Name, Does Anything but Protect Consumers
The recent security breach at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau shows the problems with the administrative state, but the threat that the CFPB and similar bureaucracies pose to consumers runs much deeper. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created under President Barack Obama in 2010 to regulate consumer affairs, reported to lawmakers March 21 that a… -
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In Zeal for Transgenderism, Washington State Muscles Parents Out, Gets Control of Their Kids
Update: Gov. Jay Inslee, the Democratic governor of Washington state, has signed into law Senate Bill 5599. According to the bill’s sponsor, state Sen. Marko Liias, a Democrat, SB 5599 “allows licensed shelters to contact the Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) in lieu of parents in certain additional instances, like when a young… -
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Why Work Requirements Are Less About Welfare Savings Than About Human Well-Being
Most Americans think that work in exchange for government benefits is common sense. For safety-net benefits, work-capable beneficiaries should begin to work, look for work, or participate in education and training at least part time. That’s a reasonable ask and essential to long-term well-being. The Republicans in the House of Representatives get that. The draft… -
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EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Appeared to Minimize Leftist Role in Violent Pro-Abortion Attacks Ahead of ‘Night of Rage’
Department of Justice officials appeared to minimize the threat of leftist violence as they prepared for the "Night of Rage" the night that Roe v. Wade was overturned, according to an email obtained by The Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project. The email shows James Dunlap, former director of Security and Emergency Preparing Staff at the Department… -
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Rep. Chip Roy’s Prescription to Secure Border: Use Power of Purse to ‘Bring President to His Knees’
If America’s southern border is to be secured, Congress must “use the power of the purse to bring the president to his knees and [make him] sit at the table,” Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, says. President Joe Biden’s border policies are enriching China and harming the American people, Roy argues. “The fact of the matter… -
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Promoting Lawlessness in Chicago
“As long as there exist stupid people supporting stupid governments in their countries, people living in those countries will continue fluttering badly in the cesspool created by this utter foolishness!”—Turkish playwright Mehmet Murat ildan That didn’t take long. The mayor-elect of Chicago, Democrat Brandon Johnson, responded to a group of teenagers who attacked cars and… -
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More Americans Need to Stand Up to the Left’s Insanity, Tucker Carlson Says at Heritage Foundation Gala
OXON HILL, Md.—The battle for America today is one between good and evil, popular Fox News host Tucker Carlson said Friday night in his keynote address at The Heritage Foundation’s 50th anniversary gala. “What you’re watching is not a political movement,” Carlson said. “It’s evil.” The side of evil is characterized by violence, hate, disorder, division, disorganization,… -
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Disney Is Going to Lose (Again) to Florida and Ron DeSantis
The first round of the “Florida and Gov. Ron DeSantis v. The Walt Disney Co.” fight, held last spring, ended in a clear DeSantis victory and Disney defeat. Following Disney’s vocal opposition to Florida’s commonsense Parental Rights in Education Act, misleadingly dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, Florida passed a law to abolish the Reedy… -
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Rep. Dan Bishop Warns That Justice Department Helps Impose ‘Censorship Regime’
OXON HILL, Md.—Politicians and policymakers didn’t realize until recently how much leftist groups work with American colleges and universities to encourage the suppression of academic freedom while the government does nothing, a House conservative said Friday during a Heritage Foundation event. “I think that we’re only lately understood the full scope of a host of… -
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Trump’s Triumphs, From A to Z, vs. Biden’s Botches
America is sinking among the waves of incompetence, impotence, and fiscal incontinence of democratic socialist President Joe Biden. It is jarring to recall how much brighter things looked just 27 months ago, after four years of President Donald Trump’s triumphs, and before Biden arrived and wrecked everything. From A to Z, here are 26 things… -
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Project 2025 Offers Road Map for Next President
OXON HILL, Md.—The Heritage Foundation and a small army of conservative allies on Friday launched the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, also known as Project 2025, calling for reining in federal agencies and curbing political weaponizaiton. “For the most powerful think tank in America, it would be very easy to go it alone,” said Ed Corrigan,…