Five Questions for Education Secretary Arne Duncan
On Tuesday morning, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will address the National Press Club. Here are five questions we’d like him to answer: You… Read More
VIDEO: The Future Is Brighter With School Choice
This weekend’s release of “Won’t Back Down” has helped shine the spotlight on school choice. Heritage would like to keep it there, which is why… Read More
Carbon Tax: Won’t Reduce Deficit or Temperature
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) released a report that should be a cause for concern to all who believe in limited government. In it, CRS… Read More
Heritage’s Opposition to National Education Standards Advances Public Debate
Federal intervention into education has been a growing problem over the past four-and-a-half decades and is being supersized by the Obama Administration’s current efforts to… Read More
Another Downward GDP Revision Shows Economy Still Not Recovering
On Thursday, the Department of Commerce revised its second quarter estimate of economic growth (in terms of real gross domestic product, or GDP) down to… Read More
Matt Damon’s Anti-Fracking Movie Financed by Oil-Rich Arab Nation
A new film starring Matt Damon presents American oil and natural gas producers as money-grubbing villains purportedly poisoning rural American towns. It is therefore of… Read More
Online Chat on Education Reform
Hollywood is tackling real-life problems with the new movie Won’t Back Down opening nationwide on Friday. The film is about parents who have had enough… Read More
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Free Speech Threatened at United Nations
The skies over New York are thick with chickens coming home to roost for the Obama Administration. No sooner had President Obama delivered his oration… Read More
What Did the Obama Administration Know and When Did It Know It?
Mounting evidence suggests that Obama officials may have been less—much less—than forthright with the facts of the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya,… Read More
Obama’s Appeasement
The attacks on United States embassies in the Middle East raise questions about President Obama’s policy in the region. But the administration’s reaction to these… Read More
INFOGRAPHIC: Obama Foreign Policy Strewn with “Bumps in the Road”
In an interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday, President Obama referred to the problematic relations with Middle Eastern governments as “bumps in the road.” These… Read More
Based on Market Demands, Toyota Says No to New Electric Car
The market demand for all-electric cars envisioned by Toyota Motor Corporation has not materialized according to the company, forcing it to shed a projected battery-powered… Read More
Defense Cuts Will Cost Us in the Long Run
As its January 2 deadline draws near, sequestration and the roughly $500 billion it will cut from defense have received increasing attention. While proponents of… Read More
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Obama Should Be Guided by His Own Words on Latin America
In his generally disappointing September 25 address to the United Nations General Assembly, President Obama trotted out a number of fundamental American principles. He called… Read More
A Deadly Anniversary in China
Tuesday marked the 32nd anniversary of China’s oppressive one-child policy. The population control rule, established on September 25, 1980, has resulted in almost 40 million… Read More
Romney’s Tax Plan Doesn’t Have to Raise Taxes on the Middle Class
The Tax Policy Center (TPC) made headlines with its analysis of Governor Mitt Romney’s tax reform plan. The authors of the TPC report found, incorrectly… Read More
Obamacare Spends More Than a Trillion in Taxpayer Dollars and Still Leaves 30 Million People Uninsured
On November 7, 2007, at a speech in Bettendorf, Iowa, then-candidate Obama said: Every four years politicians come before you to talk about health care…. Read More
Obama at U.N. in Defense of Free Speech—Sort Of
Speaking at the United Nations this morning, for the first time since anti-American violence erupted in the Middle East on September 11, President Obama found… Read More
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Obama Has Another Jimmy Carter Moment at the U.N.
President Obama’s U.N. speech offered little confidence for those living in the direct firing line of an Iran, which may soon be armed with a… Read More
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Iran Escalates Threats Ahead of Ahmadinejad’s United Nations Speech
The war of nerves between Iran and Israel continued to escalate over the weekend as a prominent Iranian officer in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps… Read More
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Iranians May Be Doling Out Payback for U.S. Sanctions
This past week, the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center raised the cyber threat level from elevated to high, and warned banks of “recent… Read More
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Comedian in Chief: Obama Snubs World Leaders for Talk Shows
Where is President Obama? Yakking it up on television and radio with comedians and chat shows. That is, when he is not out raising funds… Read More
FACT CHECK: Obama Misleads on Medicare, Taxes, and Regulations
During a Sunday evening interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” President Obama made numerous factually inaccurate or misleading claims. Specifically, Obama claimed that he has not… Read More
Chart of the Week: 70% of Spending Goes to Dependence Programs
Federal spending concentrated on the 47 dependence-creating government programs that include housing, farm subsidies, and entitlements now comprises more than 70.5 percent of total federal… Read More
Justice Department Used Enemies List to Attack Critics, Including Me
It’s an odd feeling to see your name on the list of individuals targeted by the Justice Department. Especially when you used to work there…. Read More
Energy Dept. Spends $10 Million on Water Turbine to Power 25 Houses
Photo credit courtesy of NREL The first underwater turbine to make use of tidal energy went live last week in Maine, supported by a $10… Read More
States and Organizations Fight to Preserve Liberty from Dodd-Frank Act Intrusions
The states of Michigan, Oklahoma, and South Carolina have sued the Obama Administration in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia over provisions… Read More
The Apology Tour Continues: Obama, Clinton Say “Sorry” to Rioting Pakistanis
Yesterday, the President and Secretary of State of the United States of America went on Pakistani television to apologize. In a commercial containing clips from… Read More
House Votes to Reverse Obama Administration’s Gutting of Welfare’s Work Requirements
This afternoon, the House voted to restore the work requirements that the Obama Administration has attempted to gut from the 1996 welfare reform law. The… Read More
Online Chat on Domestic Drones
Is someone spying on you? In recent months, domestic drones have caused a lot of controversy. However, there is a lot of confusion about them…. Read More
