Super Gimmick: How to Spend Non-Existent War ‘Savings’
In 1969, as President Nixon’s Domestic Policy Council sought ways to spend the forthcoming “peace dividend”—savings projected from the wind-down of the Vietnam War—council members… Read More
Delay, Baby, Delay: Obama Decision Puts Up to 200k Jobs on Hold
First, it was 20,000 jobs the Obama Administration delayed by punting a decision to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring 700,000 barrels of… Read More
Supercommittee Dithers on Tax Hikes – But Where are the Spending Cuts?
What’s a supercommittee to do? Total national debt just hit a new record at $15 trillion, an increase of approximately $700 billion since the Supercommittee’s… Read More
The Founders on War & Peace
Next Tuesday, the contenders for the GOP presidential nomination will square off in another debate, this time focused on foreign policy. If the last few… Read More
Obamacare Threatens Life and Liberty
The Supreme Court’s announcement on Monday that it will consider the constitutionality of some of Obamacare’s provisions, including the individual mandate, has reignited discussion of… Read More
“Right to Work” Headed to New Hampshire, Indiana?
Tuesday in South Bend, Indiana, Governor Mitch Daniels (R) faced a question that’s been bubbling to the surface in the Hoosier State: Is making Indiana… Read More
How Not to Advance a Balanced Budget Amendment
Congress this week finds itself in a predicament of its own making. To show how serious they are about solving America’s deepening fiscal crisis, Republicans… Read More
Exclusive Interview: Sen. Cornyn Says Obama Has ‘Given Up on Governing’
The debt-limit deal this summer guaranteed a vote on a Balanced Budget Amendment this year. As the House and Senate prepare to vote, there is… Read More
Kennedy Jr. Gets Taxpayer Cash for “Green” Company
Americans have heard all about how the Obama Administration gave a $535 million loan guarantee to the now-bankrupt solar company Solyndra, but details are emerging… Read More
New Poll: Americans Want Obamacare Repealed
Just as the Supreme Court has decided to take up the court cases challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare, a new Gallup poll shows that the… Read More
Devastating Defense Cuts Loom, Panetta Warns
What happens if the “super committee” fails to meet its target of $1.5 trillion in budget savings by Thanksgiving and sequestration is triggered? It would… Read More
Nine Companies Financed by Liberal VC Firm Get Taxpayer Backing
Scribe has reported extensively on the tendency of large government spending projects to reward the politically connected. It’s a virtual constant of federal interventions in… Read More
Canada: U.S. Delaying Pipelines Means We’ll Go Elsewhere
Canada exports almost all of its energy to the United States, but because of resistance from the Obama Administration to approving the construction of the… Read More
The Individual Mandate: A Step Closer, but the Fight Against Obamacare Must Continue
As expected, the Supreme Court has decided to take up the court cases challenging Obamacare’s individual mandate and the question of whether the whole law… Read More
Supercommittee: Maximize Nonsecurity Spending Cuts, Do Not Raise Taxes
The Heritage Foundation has consistently urged, and continues to urge, that the congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, known as the Supercommittee, “go big”… Read More
Guest Blog: China’s Space Program Threatens U.S. National Security
On November 2nd, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) completed a critical milestone in its young, yet ambitious, space program. China’s unmanned Shenzhou 8, which… Read More
It’s Not that Easy to “Bow Out” of Obamacare
Last week’s Des Moines Register’s editorial page takes a sardonic view of the majority of Americans (51 percent as of last week) who are opposed… Read More
Senate Lawmakers Launch Attack on Marriage
Last Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted on legislation that would repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). All 10 Democrats on the committee… Read More
Guest Blog: Rep. Ed Royce on the Small Business Lending Fund
The Small Business Lending Fund was cleverly named by its authors last Congress. Since its implementation, however, it would appear a more appropriate name would… Read More
Marriage: Indiana’s No. 1 Weapon Against Childhood Poverty
Children in Indiana born to single parents are more than six times more likely to live in poverty than children born to married parents. In… Read More
Reforming the Military Health Care System
A number of military and veterans groups are expressing concern over a letter that Senator John McCain (R–AZ) has sent to members of the congressional… Read More
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William F. Buckley: Conservatism’s Intellectual Godfather
Sixty years ago this November, a recent Yale graduate published a book that outraged the distinguished university’s administration and launched a young conservative’s career. The… Read More
PODCAST: Occupy Wall Street and Founding Principles
In this week’s Heritage in Focus, Julia Shaw discusses Occupy Wall Street. Click here to listen. Are there any similarities between Occupy Wall Street and… Read More
Obama Delays Keystone Pipeline: Delays Jobs and Energy, Too
The Obama Administration announced it would delay the construction of the $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline that would bring in more than 700,000 barrels of… Read More
Agricultural Marketing Fees: Not Just for Christmas Trees
Yesterday, after word got out (via a post here on the Foundry) regarding new “mandatory fees” on Christmas trees imposed by the Obama Department of… Read More
The State Department’s Turn-the-Other Cheek Policy
Expel U.S. ambassadors from your country, accuse the U.S. of plotting coups and trying to destabilize your country, and cozy up to Iran, and what… Read More
Surprise, Surprise: Yet Another Part of Obamacare Increases Premiums and Kills Jobs
Even without Obamacare, the United States faces rising health care costs and an economy struggling to recover from the recent downturn. Despite its supporters’ promises,… Read More
Leaked Emails Fuel Perception of Cronyism in Solyndra Loan
In a move that is sure to intensify the already testy exchanges between the White House and congressional investigators, the House Energy and Commerce Committee… Read More
Austerity Successes in Previous Downturns
The left continues to resist any suggestion of spending cuts right now. In their view, a depressed economy is no time to slash spending; that… Read More
