Rep. Tom Price: Obama Needs to “Press the Reset Button”
President Obama’s refusal to balance the budget will soon leave Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security bankrupt. That’s according to Representative Tom Price (R-GA), who spoke at… Read More
State of the Union 2013: Heritage Experts’ Analysis
New Capabilities for the Military? During his speech tonight, President Obama, in a brief passage, pledged to provide the military with new capabilities. This pledge… Read More
Will President Obama Call for More Nuclear Arms Reductions?
President Obama will propose large-scale nuclear arms reductions worldwide in tonight’s State of the Union address, according to The New York Times. The White House,… Read More
WATCH: Rep. Tom Price Talks Balanced Budget at Bloggers Briefing
Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) joins us for today’s Bloggers Briefing. He’ll share his thoughts on the State of the Union, balancing the budget, and anything… Read More
Cybersecurity Executive Order Is a Mistake Every Way You Look at It
President Obama plans to issue his cybersecurity executive order on Wednesday, following his State of the Union address, according to The Hill. Based on drafts… Read More
Morning Bell: Obama’s Bogus State of the Union Promises
Tonight, the American people will be watching President Obama’s fifth State of the Union address. How has he done on his promises over the past… Read More
Ask Obama: Our Question for the State of the Union “Fireside Hangout”
After the State of the Union, President Obama is going to do a “Fireside Hangout.” He will answer “a selection of your top-voted questions” in… Read More
Obama Inauguration Speech: More Transportation “Investment”
President Obama hinted toward at least one aspect of his second-term agenda during yesterday’s inaugural address: more transportation “investment.” No surprise there. Obama’s past budget… Read More
Chart of the Week: Obama Tops Bush With More, Costlier Major Regulations
President Obama famously declared in this year’s State of the Union: “I’ve approved fewer regulations in the first three years of my presidency than my… Read More
Clean Energy: Cap and Trade Lite
In his State of the Union address last month, President Obama requested that Congress pass legislation mandating a national clean energy standard (CES). A CES… Read More
Chart of the Week: Top 1 Percent Paid 38 Percent of Federal Income Taxes
President Obama used his State of the Union address Tuesday to outline his idea of fairness. To put it simply, that means redistributing wealth by… Read More
Online Chat about Obama’s Economic Policies
President Obama unveiled a long list of economic policies during the State of the Union address that he wanted Congress to focus on this year…. Read More
Taliban’s Momentum Slowed but not “Broken,” Mr. President
During Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, President Obama largely glossed over the ongoing war in Afghanistan, where nearly 100,000 American soldiers are fighting… Read More
Trade, Tires, and Jobs
“Over a thousand Americans are working today because we stopped a surge in Chinese tires,” asserted President Obama in his State of the Union Address…. Read More
FACT CHECK: 10 Dubious Claims from Obama’s State of the Union
President Obama made a number of questionable statements in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Heritage experts took on some of the… Read More
Latin America Missing from the SOTU
Beneath the President’s bully pulpit in the House of Representatives last night must be a very thick carpet under which Barack Obama managed to sweep… Read More
PODCAST: State of the Union
In this week’s Heritage in Focus, Heritage director of communications, Rory Cooper, discusses the president’s State of the Union address. Click here to listen. What’s… Read More
Obama v. Obama: The President Takes Aim at Himself
Those who might have nodded off after the first hour of President Obama’s third State of the Union address were surely brought back to consciousness… Read More
Morning Bell: Obama’s State of Omission
Speaking last night from the U.S. Capitol, President Barack Obama described the state of the Union as he sees it — strong and getting stronger,… Read More
State of the Union: President Obama Glossed over Afghan War
In listening to the State of the Union, you would never know that the U.S. still has close to 100,000 troops fighting the Taliban in… Read More
The New Fairness
In his State of the Union, President Obama has once again donned the mantle of progressivism, but this time rather than the radical argument that… Read More
State of the Union 2012: Heritage Reaction Roundup
Before the Speech Begins – Emily Goff: Previewing tonight’s speech this past weekend, Mr. Obama said: “We can go in two directions. One is towards less… Read More
Morning Bell: State of Dysfunction
Tonight, Americans who tune in to the State of the Union will watch the work of a rhetorical master with a flair for illusion. President… Read More
News
Chart of the Week: Slow Job Growth Means a Slow Economic Recovery
President Obama will deliver his third State of the Union address on Tuesday night. According to a preview video released this weekend, the speech will… Read More
Green Jobs Cronyism and Cannibalism
To rephrase President Obama’s State of the Union theme: “This is our generation’s apparatchik moment.” Yes, he said “Sputnik” instead, but his actual agenda is… Read More
Message to the President: Expanding Medicaid Will Not Reduce Federal Spending
Last night in the State of the Union address, President Obama stated that “the only way to tackle our deficit is to cut excessive spending… Read More
The State of Medical Malpractice Reform in the Union
Forgive me if I seem skeptical of President Obama’s assertion last evening in his State of the Union address when he said that he was… Read More
Morning Bell: Losing the Future
Last night, in his State of the Union, President Barack Obama claimed, “We have to make America the best place on Earth to do business…. Read More
Reaction Roundup: Heritage Responds To The State Of The Union
Heritage members and fans are discussing President Barack Obama’s State of the Unions address at Twitter and Facebook right now. And here are just some… Read More
Speaker Boehner Honors School Choice
Parents across America who’d like to lift their children out of failing public schools can be grateful that the new leader of the House of… Read More
