The Morality of Conservatism
Liberals often appeal to morality in policy debates with conservatives—with much success. But conservatives should not cede the moral high ground. In fact, a strong… Read More
Wisconsin Voters Agree: Walker’s Reforms Work
Engaged voters and policymakers have a number of things to ponder after the dust settles in Tuesday’s historic Wisconsin election. While Governor Scott Walker (R)… Read More
Barack Obama’s Unwelcome Jubilee Present to Britain
Barack Obama was all smiles in his carefully scripted message of congratulation to Queen Elizabeth II on her Diamond Jubilee. But at the same time as he recorded… Read More
Solar Company Hired Biden Staffer to Help Secure $1.6 Billion Federal Loan
Internal emails show that BrightSource Energy, which received the largest federal loan for a solar energy project under President Obama’s stimulus package, leveraged its considerable… Read More
D-Day: Let Us Pray
When we look back across history, it’s all too easy to assume that because something happened, it had to happen exactly the way it did…. Read More
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Next Stop for Proposition 8: U.S. Supreme Court
It was no surprise today that the most liberal (and most-overturned) federal appeals court in the nation, the Ninth Circuit, refused a request for a… Read More
Free Market Reforms Rescue Maine from Obamacare-Like Problems
Maine’s new market-based health care reform is bringing insurance premiums down by as much as 60 percent in the individual market. Elected in 2010, Governor… Read More
Company Lobbies for More Federal Funds While Over-billing Amtrak
A company that has lobbied for greater federal transportation funding may have overcharged the federal government by millions for a construction contract, according to a… Read More
Reid Is Bouncing an Important Check
It seems odd to note this in an election year, but it’s important nonetheless: The Founding Fathers feared unbridled, direct democracy. The Senate is supposed… Read More
More Than 40 Percent of Americans Are on Some Government Program
How many Americans depend on a government program for a basic (or not so basic) need? According to recently released Census Bureau data and Heritage… Read More
Armour v. Indianapolis: “Money Down the Sewer”
Not many cases involving the financing of municipal sewer construction projects are likely to raise issues that might interest the Supreme Court (or anyone else… Read More
Popcorn and Bullets
ABC’s Jake Tapper recently ran Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to the ground on the issue of the automatic defense cuts that will impact on… Read More
Time to Return ARPA-E to Its Original Mission
Despite having a budget for only a few years, the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) is quickly becoming a microcosm of the larger problems associated… Read More
Georgia’s Defense Reforms Are an Example for NATO
Georgians live in a dangerous neighborhood. This is obvious to anyone looking at a map of the Caucasus. Iran is its neighbor to the south…. Read More
Iran Targets U.S. Diplomats for Terrorist Attacks
While the Obama Administration remains wedded to the diplomatic engagement of Iran, Iran remains wedded to terrorism, including plots against U.S. diplomats. The Washington Post… Read More
The Ban on Big Drinks: New York Supersizes the Nanny State
Yesterday’s proposal by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to limit sugary drinks in the Big Apple left a sour taste in the mouths of… Read More
PODCAST: Trial of Doctor Who Helped U.S. Locate bin Laden
In this week’s Heritage in Focus, listen to expert Lisa Curtis discuss the trial of Dr. Shakil Afridi, the doctor who helped the U.S. track down… Read More
Gov. Romney on Defense Spending and US Foreign Policy
Three years ago today at the United States Navy Memorial former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney delivered his first extended speech setting forth his vision on… Read More
The Tyranny of Conservative Cliches
In his latest book, The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas, Jonah Goldberg argues that liberals hide their ideology behind… Read More
Court Strikes Down The Defense of Marriage Act
Today, a unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held unconstitutional a provision of the federal Defense of Marriage Act… Read More
The Private-Sector Space Challenge to China
The SpaceX Dragon capsule has returned to Earth after delivering nearly a half-ton of supplies in the first purely commercial replenishment mission to the International… Read More
CBO Stimulus Report Begs the Question
Imagine I told you that if you were to spin around in place 1,000 times really, really fast in the opposite direction to the earth’s… Read More
New Regulation Forces Private Insurers to Advertise Obamacare
Obamacare’s medical loss ratio (MLR) provision began this year and requires insurers in the individual and small-group markets to spend 80 percent of premiums—85 percent… Read More
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VIDEO: Navy Faces Readiness Crisis as More Ships Unprepared for Combat
The year was 1979. America’s military had emerged from the Vietnam War earlier in the decade and was now facing sizable and significant budget cuts…. Read More
Pakistan Takes Short-sighted Approach to Relations with the U.S.
Pakistani military officials took serious offense at the U.S. unilateral raid in their country last May to eliminate the world’s most wanted terrorist. With last… Read More
ExxonMobil Promotes Administration’s Effort to Nationalize Education
Oil giant ExxonMobil is promoting the Obama administration’s controversial national education standards push through television ads and a dedicated page on its website. To date,… Read More
More States Receive Strings-Attached NCLB Waivers
Yesterday, the Obama Administration announced that eight more states will receive waivers to opt out of the onerous provisions of No Child Left Behind (NCLB)…. Read More
Isn’t It Time to Outlaw Gendercide?
Think sex-selective abortions—known as gendercide—happen only in China? Wrong. This week, Live Action films produced an undercover video of a Texas Planned Parenthood employee explaining… Read More
Obama Insults Poland Again
President Obama has a long track record of insulting the Poles. In 2010 he chose to play golf on the day of the funeral of the Polish… Read More
DOJ Hack Emphasizes the Need for Smart Cybersecurity Action
Last week, the U.S. Justice Department acknowledged that its Bureau of Justice Statistics website had been hacked. The hacker group Anonymous claimed credit for the… Read More
