Sandbagged at the Summit of the Americas
On April 13–15, President Obama participated in what will likely be the last Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia. It showed that contemporary gatherings… Read More
North America’s Leaderless Summit
At the April 2 meeting of North American leaders—President Felipe Calderon of Mexico, Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada, and President Obama—the U.S. President was… Read More
News
One Group’s Strategy to Derail Oil Pipelines, Raise Energy Prices
Details of a large non-profit’s plans to combat the Keystone XL pipeline have surfaced, and offer some insight into the strategies and tactics of groups… Read More
Chart of the Week: How Countries Compare on Economic Freedom
Heritage and the Wall Street Journal released the 2012 Index of Economic Freedom on Thursday, ranking 179 countries on 10 benchmarks that gauge their economic… Read More
Sen. McConnell: Americans Don’t Approve of Anything Obama Has Done
In an exclusive interview with The Heritage Foundation, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) sharply criticized President Obama for engaging in class warfare and accused… 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
Canada Under Attack by Environmental Extremists
It seems that Canada, America’s friendly neighbor to the north (and beloved by the left for its universal health care system) has a new enemy… Read More
Conservative Party Wins Big in Canada
While the world was watching the news coming out of Pakistan about Osama bin Laden, closer to home voters in Canada went to the polls… Read More
Not Dead Yet: Predictions of Religion’s Extinction Miss the Mark
In 1966, God was pronounced dead. More recently, it was determined that God is back. But now a team of researchers has put him on… Read More
G-20: Obama Keeps Talking, But The World Has Stopped Listening
Although Canada’s taxpayers were forced to spend one billion dollars for security at the G-20 Summit in Toronto last weekend, more than 600 people were… Read More
Canada: A Key Ally in Cybersecurity
Canada is one of America’s greatest allies and its largest trading partner. Yet within a split second, it could freeze US financial systems, disable key… Read More
Canadian Government to Reimburse Citizens for Damage Done by G-20!
A page on the Canadian Government’s G-20 Toronto Summit website promises payments to citizens “to mitigate adverse financial consequences” as a result of the meeting… Read More
Canada Advances in the World Cup of Economic Freedom
While many parts of the globe celebrate the 2010 World Cup, Canada is quietly showing off its competitive edge in another world cup by advancing… Read More
Lessons from Canada: Stay Away from Nationalized Medicine
The United States isn’t the only country in North America grappling with the fiscal problems caused by an aging population and mounting federal deficits—Canada faces… Read More
Time to Reverse Canada’s Sharp Competitive Edge against the U.S.
Early this year, the 2010 Index of Economic Freedom, the Heritage Foundation’s data driven policy guide, reported that our economy is no longer in the… Read More
The Road to Recovery: Restore Economic Liberty to America
At The Huffington Post Nelson Davis, Executive Producer of MAKING IT! Minority Success Stories, describes his recent discovery of The Heritage Foundation’s 2010 Index of… Read More
The Canadian Patients’ Remedy for Health Care: Go to America!
One common assertion among the left is that other industrialized nations, such as Canada, achieved great success in health care within their collectivist framework. This,… Read More
NAFTA Should Not Take the Fall for Mexico’s Failure to Reform
Participants at a recent conference in Washington blamed Mexico’s failure to achieve above-average economic growth in the past decade on the North American Free Trade… Read More
Welcome and Get Well Soon!
The United States health care system is not nearly as free market and consumer driven as it should be. And while government continues to slowly… Read More
Economic Freedom: The Key to Making Our Prosperity Enduring
The President asserted during a major speech in January: “One of the greatest contributions the United States can make to the world is to promote… Read More
The U.S. Isn’t as Free as It Used to Be
The United States is losing ground to its major competitors in the global marketplace, according to the 2010 Index of Economic Freedom released today by… Read More
But Where Will Americans Go When We Have Canadian Style Health Care?
According to new polling by Gallup done after President Barack Obama’s health care address, six in ten Americans say Obama’s proposal, if enacted, would not… Read More
How’s That Government-run Health Care Working Out Canada?
Last week we passed along the news that the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority is considering cutting more than 6,000 surgeries to make up for a… Read More
How’s That Government Run Health Care Working Out Canada?
The Vancouver Sun reports: Vancouver patients needing neurosurgery, treatment for vascular diseases and other medically necessary procedures can expect to wait longer for care, NDP… Read More
Video: Undercover in Canadian Health Care
This Pajamas TV video is on the longer side, but it’s a must-see for those following the health care debate. Watch as Steven Crowder goes… Read More
Where Will Americans Go If We Adopt Government-Run Health Care?
University of Michigan Flint economics and finance professor Mark Perry flags the following story in the Windsor Star: Between April 2007 and April of this… Read More
Buy Canadian
Considering how Big Labor has been forcing our government to treat them, the only surprise is that this didn’t happen sooner: WHISTLER, B.C. — Canadian… Read More
Tax Freedom Day Video: We are Never Really Free
Tax Freedom Day is the day in the year when we have earned enough income to pay our total tax bill for the year. It… Read More
The Great Right North
Instead of emulating California, maybe we should look north. The Cato Institute notes: Long derided by American conservatives as “socialist” and praised by the left… Read More
Questions for Secretary Napolitano: Is Canada Different Than Mexico?
DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano is tentatively scheduled to testify before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee about DHS immigration enforcement policies, tomorrow, May 6, 2009…. Read More
