EconomyNews
Government Regulation Threatens 119-Year-Old Family Cigar Business
J.C. Newman Cigar Co. is one of a kind, literally. Founded in 1895 by Julius Caesar Newman, a Hungarian immigrant, the Tampa-based family business is… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Teens Need Summer Jobs. Too Bad There Aren’t Many.
School’s out, and I’m terrified my two teenage boys won’t get a job this summer and will sit around watching TV, playing computer games or… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Obama Isn’t Prepared to Face Security Challenges
Flip through the latest National Security Strategy and the Pentagon‘s Quadrennial Defense Review — these are the documents describing how President Obama envisions using foreign… Read More
LawCommentary
Obama’s Continuous Executive Orders
June’s Supreme Court ruling limiting President Obama’s authority to make recess appointments is a victory for constitutional government. But before Americans celebrate too much, they… Read More
EnergyCommentary
What Obama Has Wrong on Climate Change
President Barack Obama again sought to make the case to the American people for “dealing with the rapidly growing threat of climate change” last month,… Read More
EconomyNews
Schumer Plans to ‘Pressure’ House to Save Export-Import Bank
Advocates of pulling the plug on the Export-Import Bank are girding to resist what they see as a “blatantly partisan maneuver” in the Senate to… Read More
EconomyNews
Federal Officials Propose 8-Foot Fences to Protect Endangered Mice
SANTA FE NATIONAL FOREST, N.M.—For more than a century, the Lucero family has grazed livestock in the majestic landscape near Fenton Lakein the Santa Fe… Read More
Health CareNews
Nevada Woman Dies After Suing Over Delayed Obamacare Coverage
A woman with a brain tumor who sued Nevada’s Obamacare exchange contractor for delayed coverage died earlier this week. Linda Rolain was among 150 Nevadans… Read More
SocietyCommentary
University President Calls Law Requiring Study of Constitution ‘Archaic’
University of South Carolina president Harris Pastides is refusing to comply with a state law that requires all public universities to teach students about America’s… Read More
EducationCommentary
How Teacher Tenure Hurts Students
“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program,” quipped Milton Friedman. The same could be said of teachers with tenure. Last year, just two… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The Religious Liberty Law That Protected Hobby Lobby From Government Coercion
This week an important religious– liberty law did what it was supposed to do. In Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA)… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Why We Must Get Rid of the Export-Import Bank
When the U.S. Chamber of Commerce aligns with a disciple of Fidel Castro and hires a working-class hero to lobby Congress, when a liberal economist… Read More
SecurityCommentary
The Obama Administration Must Change Course on the Middle East
The past weeks have brought an avalanche of disasters for the United States in the wider Middle East. Unless the Obama administration changes course, the… Read More
SecurityCommentary
The U.S. Needs to Stop the ISIS Pipeline
Foreign fighters—outsiders recruited or who volunteer to fight in another country for somebody else’s cause—are nothing new. What’s new is that they have become a… Read More
SocietyCommentary
On Independence Day, Americans Are Feeling Less Free
In recent years Americans have been feeling less satisfied with their amount of freedom. In fact, Gallup recently released a poll that reveals this trend…. Read More
SecurityCommentary
Internet’s Independence Up for Grabs This July 4
Today, Americans observe Independence Day, in which we celebrate not just our separation from King George and Great Britain, but the affirmation of what Jefferson… Read More
SocietyNews
Richard M. Scaife, Newspaper Publisher and Heritage Foundation Trustee, Dies at 82
Richard M. Scaife, philanthropist to conservative causes and publisher of Tribune-Review Publishing, Co., died Friday at the age of 82. Scaife, an early supporter of The Heritage… Read More
EconomyNews
Iowa Banned Most Fireworks 76 Years Ago. Now One Lawmaker Is Trying to Change That.
Jerri Andersen wasn’t impressed by the Fourth of July fireworks display at her local Hy-Vee in Urbandale, Iowa. “Of course, it’s not their fault,” she… Read More
SocietyCommentary
How One Immigrant Escaped Tyranny to Achieve the American Dream
Virginia Prodan, a Dallas immigration attorney, escaped Communist Romania and was granted political asylum by the United States. She immediately fell in love with the… Read More
LawNews
Obama Administration Circumvents Congress, Faces Backlash Over Native Hawaiians Proposal
HONOLULU—A proposal by the Obama administration to create a new relationship with ethnic Hawaiians may have backfired. The U.S. Department of Interior is holding a… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Memo to Krugman: Unchecked Liberalism Creates Economic Mayhem
Paul Krugman of the New York Times took a shot at economist Arthur Laffer and others who advise governors around the country to cut taxes… Read More
SocietyCommentary
We Need More Beyonces and Jay-Zs
Americans are no stranger to these words from the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…”… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Virtuous Citizens Power the American Dream
Nowadays in polite society, we rarely hear anyone talk about strength of character, virtues or greatness. To discuss these matters would require making “value judgments,”… Read More
SocietyNews
‘We Have Not Forgotten’: Presidents on the Fourth of July
In a letter to his wife Abigail the day before the American colonies publicly justified their independence from Great Britain, John Adams predicted the occasion would be… Read More
SecurityCommentary
The War on America’s Independence
They called it the Declaration of Independence, but what Jefferson, Adams and the other Founders actually did 238 years ago today was separate the United… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Never Forget the Gift of Freedom
The persistent march of terrorists and tyrants around the globe gives us reason to reflect on the precious gift of freedom we have been given… Read More
EnergyCommentary
EPA Harasses Americans
Just in time for the Fourth of July, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it has added a new regulatory weapon to its arsenal…. Read More
SocietyCommentary
Cartoon: Obama Administration’s Record at the Supreme Court
There was no love lost between President Obama and and the Supreme Court as it handed down two major defeats for the administration in its… Read More
EconomyCommentary
Poll: Is the United States Still the Land of the Free?
As Americans prepare to celebrate Independence Day, a Gallup poll finds a growing number of people questioning whether our country remains the land of the… Read More
SocietyNews
1,100 Illegal Immigrants Are Living at an Oklahoma Army Base. Why Can’t This Congressman Visit?
Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Okla., was denied access July 1 to the Department of Health and Human Services facility at Fort Sill, Okla., which houses more than 1,100… Read More
