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President Obama’s decision to make nice with Cuba’s repressive, anti-American regime creates a great number of losers. Topping the list, of course, are the people of Cuba. They are starting from a bad place, lacking fundamental freedoms. And Obama negotiated no promises from the Castro brothers to ease up on the repression. That leaves Cubans…
Americans have seen the future, and they don’t much like it. The Sony hack reminds us that everything online is vulnerable. Worse, malicious digital acts can be a bridge to the real world with threats of blackmail, extortion and physical violence. We are not safe in our own cyber homes. That’s not the holiday message…
It was 40 years ago this month that two of President Gerald Ford’s top White House advisers, Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld, gathered for a steak dinner at the Two Continents restaurant in Washington with Wall Street Journal editorial writer Jude Wanniski and Arthur Laffer, former chief economist at the Office of Management and Budget….
The day after Republicans won the largest majority in the House of Representatives in almost 100 years and won a significant majority in the Senate, our liberal activist president claimed to hear the voices of all the people who didn’t vote. It was another example of stunning obstinacy from this president. It seemed Democrats were…
After a dramatic session that stretched into early Monday, Ukrainian lawmakers finally passed a budget bill amid concerns over its International Monetary Fund lending line and flat-lined economy. The bill takes modest but important steps to reduce energy subsidies and move toward a balanced budget. Advisors convinced the Ukrainian president that some short-term pain is…
“Planes, Trains and Automobiles” is not just the name of Steve Martin and John Candy’s 1987 everything-goes-wrong comedy film. It’s also the prospective casualty list of the foundation-led anti-fossil-fuel campaign called the Divest-Invest movement. The new crusade “responds to climate change by urging universities, churches, pension funds and other big institutional investors” to destroy petroleum…
Republicans don’t need to come up with a list of 2015 New Year’s resolutions. The promises they made on the campaign trail in 2014 will do just fine. Repealing Obamacare, securing the border and putting a stop to President Obama’s unconstitutional executive actions come to mind as promises that should be kept. But like many…
Did you make a New Year’s resolution to read more in 2015? Heritage Foundation experts put together this list of recommendations that will give you plenty of ideas for which books to tackle first. Military and National Security 1) “The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin…
When we asked you to share your New Year's resolutions, I wasn't expecting such heartfelt responses—but you proved me wrong. Many of you are ready to take on 2015 with love, grace and humility. Some want to get the country back on track. Others hope to pray more, lose weight and simply live better. One thing is…
The past few years have seen the rise in “disruptive” tech startups playing a game of almost pure arbitrage, taking advantage of market inefficiencies to benefit consumers. Car services such as Uber and Lyft connect anyone with a smartphone directly to drivers, shortcutting the traditional street-hailing model. Uber is now valued at more than $40…
U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen of the Southern District of Texas has scheduled a hearing for Jan. 9 on the request for an injunction filed by 25 states against President Obama’s immigration amnesty plan. In a nationally televised speech on Nov. 20, Obama announced (and began implementing) the executive actions. The original lawsuit was filed on Dec. 3,…
Read any women’s magazine in the United States and you’ll see bitter complaints over women’s inequality in this country. Men and women have different jobs, roles, desires and needs, but no law prohibits one sex from obtaining the same opportunity or experiences as the other—aside from women serving on the front lines of combat. The…
Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting doesn’t consider herself a feminist. “The Big Bang Theory” star danced around the question in a new interview. “Is it bad if I say no?” she told Redbook magazine. “It’s not really something I think about.” Then she elaborated: Things are different now, and I know a lot of the work that paved…
With the president and Congress out of town, Washington, D.C. is very quiet during the holidays, without the long lines one normally sees at museums and capitol attractions. So it was a good time last week to take my family to see a wonderful exhibit at the Library of Congress, jointly sponsored by the Federalist…
Instagram isn’t just for preteens and Justin Bieber anymore. Politicians all over the nation have embraced the photo-posting app to better engage with their constituents, give their followers an inside look to life as a senator … or president of the United States. As more politicos join the Instagram revolution, more photos pop up revealing…
The mainstream media too often still doesn’t get it. Appearing on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends” this morning, Daily Signal senior contributor Genevieve Wood discussed the most biased and outrageous media moments of 2014.
1. The ad that reminded you to thank the soldier in your life — and drink a beer. On Jan. 8, Army 1st Lt. Chuck Nadd left his eight-month mission in Afghanistan to come home. He knew he’d be greeted by his girlfriend. But he didn’t know his hometown — and Budweiser cameras — were…
When you hear the words “miracle birth” around Christmastime, you might think of one particular birth—the one that happened more than 2,000 years ago in Bethlehem involving a virgin mother named Mary. There was no medicine or surgery involved, but there was a lot of hope, love and miraculous intervention. And while none can rival Jesus, there have been many…
It is no secret that the Catholic Church teaches that birth control, abortion and in vitro fertilization are morally wrong. It is also no secret that many Americans who self-identify as Catholic also see no moral problem with these things. While regulated, these things are legal throughout the United States. But can a Catholic diocese…
The U.S. Justice Department and the Obama administration have lost their first battle in the war over the president’s plan to provide “deferred action,” or amnesty, to almost 5 million illegal aliens. When the judge for a Pennsylvania federal district court held on Dec. 16 that President Obama’s “Executive Action is unconstitutional because it violates the…