Baucus Continues Losing Streak with Energy Tax Reform Draft
Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee Max Baucus (D–MT) released a draft bill to reform the way the tax code treats energy. This latest draft… Read More
Humility: An Unlikely Biography of America’s Greatest Virtue
If you want to assess the state of humility among politicians today, just think about how often you hear leaders admit that they are wrong… Read More
Two Charter Schools That Are Preserving the American Dream
In addition to a good education, strong social relationships are also essential for a child’s upward economic mobility. The Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) and… Read More
Union Integrity Act Protects Whistle-Blowers
Last year, four truck drivers talked to federal investigators about safety problems at Gaines Motor Lines. A week later, they were fired. Now the Department… Read More
Benghazi: Let Eyewitnesses Tell the Whole Story
As Congress laboriously extracts eyewitness accounts of the Benghazi terrorist attack, unexplained aspects of the tragedy are becoming clearer. Important case in point: the reports… Read More
H.R. 3766 Wrong Approach to Global Commercial Nuclear Growth
Last week Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R–FL) introduced H.R. 3766, resurrecting the supposed “gold standard” for commercial nuclear trade. However, the bill discourages the very behavior… Read More
Jeh Johnson Confirmed: What’s Next for the DHS Secretary
President Obama’s nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Jeh Johnson, has been confirmed by the Senate in a final vote of 78–16…. Read More
Revisionist History: Absolving Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
A newly released book, The Mortgage Wars, aims to rewrite history and absolve Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac of having any part in the financial… Read More
Pajamas, Cocoa, and Health Care: How Obama Wants You to Spend Christmas
How do you plan to spend the cold days of December? Organizing for Action, President Obama’s campaign arm, thinks Americans should be spreading the merry… Read More
The Government Can Now Force You to Bake a Cake
An administrative law judge in Denver, Colorado—a state that constitutionally defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman in 2006—has declared that… Read More
4 Obamacare Supporters Face Reality After Losing Their Health Care Plans
Meet Catherine, Valentina, Martin, and Peggy. They lost their insurance because of Obamacare, are struggling to afford new options, and the President’s “fix” isn’t giving… Read More
President, First Lady Turn to Moms for Help Selling Obamacare
The Obama Administration is circling back to a strategy it has tried since May and most recently in November to get more uninsured adults into… Read More
What the Government Got You This Year (in Pictures)
Today, the Senate is set to pass the new U.S. budget deal in all its spend-tastic glory. Lawmakers have hemmed and hawed about making any… Read More
Polygamy, Sister Wives, and the Slippery Slope
Late last week, a federal judge in Utah struck down part of the state’s law that criminalizes polygamy. The challenge was brought by Kody Brown… Read More
Washington Post: Obama Administration Slowed Red Tape to Avoid 2012 Election Backlash
Last fall, Heritage Foundation analysts noted an eerie silence coming from Obama regulatory agencies. The production of new rules, which until then had been in… Read More
As Navy Fleet Shrinks, Obama Administration Diverts Funds to Biofuels
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus continued to push for his “green fleet” this week, yet again championing an initiative that wastes millions of taxpayer dollars while… Read More
Ecuador: Chevron Trial Illustrates Poor Investment Climate
Press coverage of the just-concluded testimony phase of a racketeering trial in a New York federal court provides an excellent recent illustration of the behind-the-scenes… Read More
How the EPA Plans to Kill Jobs and Reduce Your Income
How’s your heating bill? If you feel like you’re not paying enough, you’re in luck. President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is pushing new regulations… Read More
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Don’t Look to Hollywood for the Truth About Interpol
This week on the big screen, martial arts master Jason Statham tangles with James Franco in Homefront. Statham’s on-screen backstory? He’s a British Interpol agent… Read More
Obamacare Navigators Encourage Fraud, Not Safe with Private Information, Report Warns
Some Obamacare navigators—taxpayer-funded workers who were meant to help Americans wade through the insurance exchanges and buy health insurance—have been giving Americans misinformation and in… Read More
NDAA Detainee Provisions Road Map to Closing Gitmo?
The combined House/Senate agreement on the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has two key terrorist-detainee-related provisions worth highlighting. Section 1039 requires the Attorney General,… Read More
The Ryan–Murray Budget Deal: Unnecessary Pain for Americans
The controversial budget deal reached by Representative Paul Ryan (R–WI) and Senator Patty Murray (D–WA) has been criticized by experts on both sides of the… Read More
China’s Growing Navy
China’s declaration of an air defense identification zone over Japanese-administered waters in the East China Sea and confrontation with an American guided missile cruiser is… Read More
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Some Good, Some Bad in FY2014 National Defense Authorization Act
The FY2014 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which specifies the budget for the Department of Defense, does address some of the top 10 issues that… Read More
Russian “Spy Stations”: A Clear and Present Danger?
CIA and Pentagon officials have expressed concern that Russia’s efforts to place satellite positioning monitors throughout America pose a direct threat to U.S. national security,… Read More
Spending Caps Have Worked, but Ryan-Murray Budget Would Lift Them
In terms of cutting government spending, the Budget Control Act’s spending caps and sequestration have been an unparalleled success story in recent years. And yet,… Read More
How to Help Uninsured Americans
Two of the problems Obamacare promised to solve were getting coverage for people with pre-existing conditions and helping the uninsured get coverage. Last week, we… Read More
Iran Now Unhindered in Obtaining Nuclear Weapons, Experts Warn
The nuclear deal the Obama Administration negotiated with Iran is flawed by the premature easing of sanctions in return for easily reversed Iranian pledges that… Read More
Heritage Speakers Shaking Up College Campuses
To change this country, we must first change the conversation within the younger generation. Through Heritage’s Young Leaders Program (YLP), Heritage speakers are visiting college… Read More
Why Conservatives Don’t Like the Ryan-Murray Budget Deal
Next week, the Senate will consider the Ryan-Murray budget deal — a spending plan that disappoints conservatives and believers in a limited government that manages… Read More
