Missiles on London Rooftops: Overreaction or Good Practice?
In what the Associated Press and the Washington Post Online are calling a “shocking” revelation, the British Ministry of Defense was considering emplacing a surface-to-air… Read More
Biden’s Agitprop Approach to Foreign Policy
Vice President Joe Biden’s speech in New York last week reflected the fact that the Obama Administration’s foreign policy record and the Obama Doctrine is… Read More
Chart of the Week: Entitlement Spending Will Nearly Double by 2050
President Obama has called Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget “an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country,” but as this week’s chart illustrates, if… Read More
A Year after Osama bin Laden’s Death: Al-Qaeda Alive and Kicking
Nearly a year ago, America did the world a favor and killed Osama bin Laden. Now the Obama Administration is taking credit for al-Qaeda’s defeat…. Read More
Side Effects: The $8.35 Billion Attempt to Fool Seniors
A new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) shows that a demonstration program created by the Obama Administration in Medicare Advantage (MA) is primarily… Read More
Horror of North Korea’s Prison Camps Revealed by Escapee
Deep inside the darkness of North Korea—a totalitarian state from which little news escapes—as many as 200,000 citizens are suffering in the regime’s forced labor… Read More
VIDEO: Rep. Gowdy’s Religious Liberty Lesson for Secretary Sebelius
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius made yet another embarrassing admission about the lack of constitutional analysis that went into the… Read More
Washington Tries to Play Rich Uncle Sam on Taxpayers’ Backs
In 2007, Congress halved the federal student loan rate to 3.4 percent but triggered the rates to increase to 6.8 in 2012. Now, Washington policymakers… Read More
Union Says Right-to-Work Makes Us Slaves
Is it slavery for union workers to work alongside nonunion workers? The International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) filed a lawsuit claiming that Indiana’s right-to-work… Read More
Happening Now: Online Chat on Protecting America
Next week is the start of Heritage’s fourth annual Protect America Month. Protect America Month is the month where we highlight the need for a… Read More
The Rest of the Story on Student Loans
President Obama is busy crossing the country and appealing to young Americans on the issue of student loans. He’s warning them of the possibility of… Read More
VIDEO: EPA Official Compares Agency Enforcement to Roman Crucifixions
A video surfaced on Wednesday showing a regional administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency comparing his agency’s philosophy with respect to regulation of oil and… Read More
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Family Fact of the Week: Marriage Protects Women and Children from Violence
New government data (PDF) reveals a continuing trend of declining marriage rates. More women have never been married, and cohabitation rates have increased steadily. And… Read More
Of Course Higher Taxes Slow Growth
In The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, Peter Diamond and Emmanuel Saez present a rambling defense of higher taxes on the rich to fund an… Read More
Is the War on Terror Over? Are Islamists Now ‘Legitimate’?
There’s a bunch of good news coming from one senior official in the State Department. According to this unnamed source, “the war on terror is… Read More
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Violence Against Women Bill Fails to Address Fraud
The Senate is poised to consider S. 1925 this week, the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Despite the law’s good intentions, more… Read More
College (Loan) Football: The Looming Interest Rate Hike
Over the weekend, President Obama urged Congress to prevent a pending interest rate hike on student loans. While he argued that failure to keep interest… Read More
Marriage Debate Moves to North Carolina
According to the Alliance Defense Fund, “Sixty-three million Americans have voted on marriage, and in 31 out of 31 states they have protected marriage as… Read More
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U.S. Nods to India’s Closing Missile Gap with China
India’s successful test of the Agni-V, a nuclear-capable long-range missile, is a major step forward for New Delhi in attaining nuclear deterrence against regional rival… Read More
Medicare Trustees to America: A Bleak Future Without Real Reform
On September 8, 2011—well after the enactment of Obamacare—President Obama told Congress: “Millions of Americans rely on Medicare in their retirement. And millions more will… Read More
Why States Should Hop Off the National Standards Bandwagon
When “states signed on to common core standards, they did not realize…that they were transferring control of the school curriculum to the federal government,” said… Read More
From Russia with Hate: Anti-Americanism Rampant in Putin’s Kremlin
If you sup with the Russian government, you’d better bring a long spoon. While some U.S.–Russian cooperation appears to be happening on the surface, behind… Read More
Why Won’t the Euro Crisis Just Go Away?
The European euro/debt/growth/banking/identity crisis is entering its third year. With so many summits, toasts, tense conference calls, and self-congratulatory pronouncements of ultimate success by Europe’s… Read More
Regrets on the Left: Democrats Second-Guessing Obamacare
Earlier this week we learned that former Obama Administration official Elizabeth Warren is calling for a repeal of one of Obamacare’s many taxes, and today… Read More
Now Online: The Heritage Guide to the Constitution
The Constitution made a comeback these past few years. In 2009, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D–CA) replied to a question about the constitutionality of Obamacare… Read More
Argentina, and Obama, Make Us Want to Cry
Standing before a mural of Eva Peron Duarte (wife of Argentina’s legendary strongman Juan Domingo Peron and the “first lady of populism”) Argentina’s recently re-elected… Read More
Chairman Conrad’s Embarrassing Quasi-Budget
The Senate Budget Committee stretched a few definitions in announcing yesterday’s “Mark-Up of the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2013.” Turns out… Read More
Enlargement: No Longer a NATO Priority?
Next month NATO leaders will meet in Chicago for the heads of state and government summit. The agenda will primarily focus on Afghanistan but also… Read More
Online Chat on the Constitution
How well do you think you know the Constitution? If you’ve ever wanted to learn more about it, now is your chance. Heritage just launched… Read More
All Workers–Including Union Workers–Should Be Able to Achieve Rewards
The Brooklyn Hospital Center wanted to reward its best nurses, so it honored high-performing nurses with a breakfast and gave them $100 gift cards. Unfortunately,… Read More
