Border of the Future
TUCSON, Ariz–Visiting the operations of “P-28”–the prototype of Homeland Security’s future “virtual fence” –with the Border Patrol made me more optimistic about the future of… Read More
TUCSON, Ariz–Visiting the operations of “P-28”–the prototype of Homeland Security’s future “virtual fence” –with the Border Patrol made me more optimistic about the future of… Read More
TUCSON, AZ: During my visit to the Tucson border area, I visited “P-28,” a test-bed of cameras, radar, and other sensors that cover 28 miles… Read More
TUCSON, AZ: Congress is not smarter than the Border Patrol. Congress was right to fund the Department Homeland Security’s request to build barriers along the… Read More
TUCSON, AZ: “Who are You?” That’s the question CBP agents worry about millions of times every day when people cross U.S. borders. During my visit… Read More
TUCSON, AZ: I’ve been blogging about my visit to the area around Nogales, Arizona, listing all the troubles caused by broken borders. Now, as Paul… Read More
TUCSON, AZ: Saving the environment starts at the nation’s edge. I saw plenty of evidence of that on my trip to the U.S/Mexico border area… Read More
TUCSON, ARIZ.—Here is what I found on visit to the border in Arizona—people die on the border because of lack of adequate security. It is… Read More
TUCSON, AZ: Folks in Washington think that they not only have all the answers, they think they don’t have to leave town to get them…. Read More
Hardly a supporter of the decision to remove Saddam Hussein, The Christian Science Monitor reports today on “guarded optimism” in Iraq. Howard La Franchi writes:… Read More
Yesterday, the New York Times shamelessly politicized Memorial Day by publishing an editorial attacking President Bush and Sen. John McCain for not supporting Sen. Jim… Read More
Our friends at the Evergreen Freedom Foundation have produced an excellent video tribute to the men and women of the U.S. military who have sacrificed… Read More
Odds are the President will veto the defense supplemental spending measure. Not only did Congress junk up the bill with lots of provisions that are… Read More
In a recent item on The Huffington Post, Bernard Finel argued that “analysts at the Heritage Foundation seem to want to politicize defense” policy by… Read More
New satellite images of a secret underground submarine base built by the Chinese and capable of hiding up to 20 nuclear submarines further stresses the… Read More
The virulently pro-amnesty Washington Post was in full spin mode today trying to make the best out of a new Manhattan Institute study on the… Read More
As Heritage’s Michael Franc documents again today, the Democratic party is rapidly becoming a party of rich cultural elites: Through May 1, the Democratic presidential… Read More
According to an article on The Hill, lobbyists are now targeting smaller immigration bills. This strategy is the smarter approach. The U.S. immigration system touches… Read More
Last week, House Armed Services’ Seapower Subcommittee Chairman Gene Taylor (D-Miss.) affirmed that he does not plan to include language in the FY 2009 defense… Read More
There is lots of news in the battle against transnational terrorism—a lot of it not good. AP wire stories highlight one of the conclusions in… Read More
The U.S. long anticipated an increase in violence as the winter snow melted, but the weekend assassination attempt on Afghan President Hamid Karzai underscores the… Read More
Unable to summon the courage to end funding for the Iraq war, liberals are now trying to blame Iraq for the current economic turmoil. We’ve… Read More
Liberals in Congress threatened earlier this month to to combine all federal government spending for the year into one massive appropriations bill. To avoid a… Read More
The Associated Press reports, “In unusually blunt terms, Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday challenged the Air Force, whose leaders are under fire on several fronts,… Read More
Earlier this month the New York Times reported: “It is not easy to draw a straight line from the slumping economy to the war in… Read More
Michael O’Hanlon’s brave support for the surge in Iraq has made him public enemy number one in the progressive blog circles. Whenever O’Hanlon comments on… Read More
We’ve already addressed Jospesh Stiglitz and his claims that the Iraq war will cost $3 trillion (except when it costs $5 trillion) a number of… Read More
Heritage Senior Research Fellow James Carafano wrote a piece for the Washington Post’s Think Tank Town feature today. Highlights include: “I’m in favor of immigration,”… Read More
During Gen. David Petraeus’ testimony this week, the anti-war movement tried their best to exaggerate the costs of security in Iraq. They trotted out Joseph… Read More
Today Gen. David Petraeus told the Senate today that the recent flare-up of violence across Iraq demonstrates that recent security improvements are “fragile and reversible.”… Read More
Today NATO leaders issued a statement calling on all NATO members to explore ways in which planned U.S. deployment of a missile defense system in… Read More
