Trade Deficit Worry Warts Ignore $26 TRILLION in Foreign Investment
The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) recently reported that job-creating foreign investment in the United States is approaching $26 trillion. In the first quarter… Read More
Climate Change: White House Confuses Myths with Realities
Heather Zichal, deputy assistant to the President for energy and climate change, took to the White House blog to defend the Administration’s climate-change plan in… Read More
Can You Opt Out of Your Union Dues?
I joined the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1245 as a high school student in New Jersey. Having to pay union dues in… Read More
Obamacare Impact: Another Insurer Leaves California Market
The Los Angeles Times reports this morning on another disturbing Obamacare-related development in California: The nation’s largest health insurer, UnitedHealth Group Inc., is leaving California’s… Read More
Tales of the Red Tape #40: The USDA Rabbit Police
There’s no good way to deliver this disturbing bit of news except to come right out with it: Marty the Magician and others in the… Read More
Iran, North Korea Pose Greater Nuclear Threat Than Russia
Iran’s nuclear energy chief, Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani, declared Friday that the country will continue uranium enrichment for energy, though most outsiders suspect it will be used… Read More
EconomyNews
Sequestration? What Sequestration?
President Obama claimed that millions of Americans would suffer if Congress failed to prevent the $85 billion in automatic budget cuts known ominously as “sequestration.”… Read More
SocietyNews
DeMint: Do Traditional Marriage Supporters Deserve to Be Treated with Dignity?
Some people can’t seem to understand why anyone would support marriage as the union of a man and a woman. Indeed, Justice Anthony Kennedy argued… Read More
Snowden Asylum Request: Another Blow to Obama’s Russia “Reset” Policy
Last Sunday, a Russian consular official confirmed that former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden asked for political asylum in Russia. Snowden’s defection, announced… Read More
D.C. Police to Scalpers: One Strike and You’re Jailed
Ordering the police to arrest every lawbreaker, no matter how trivial the offense or harmless the offender, appeals to legislators who want to appear “tough… Read More
Obamacare’s ACO Conundrum
Over the weekend, Bloomberg reported on the latest challenge to Obamacare: hospitals leaving one of the law’s signature attempts to contain health costs: Almost a… Read More
Baucus–Hatch “Blank Slate” Tax Reform a Positive Step but Too Narrowly Focused
Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee Max Baucus (D–MT) and Ranking Member Senator Orrin Hatch (R–UT) recently proposed a “blank-slate” approach to tax reform. This… Read More
Climate Change: Lessons Learned from Around the World
If it ain’t broke, the government will break it for you. That seems to be the lesson to draw from other nations that have implemented… Read More
News
How Presidents Carter and Obama Both Missed the Mark on Defense
As Congress enters its final review of the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act, the U.S. is once again facing the threat of a hollow military…. Read More
Obamacare Shocker: Premiums Could Double
This morning’s Wall Street Journal published its own analysis of premiums under Obamacare, and its conclusions will prompt shock—rate shock—among those who need to buy… Read More
Morning Bell: 5 Immigration Questions for Members of Congress
It’s July 4 week, which means Members of Congress are at home in their districts. As you head to your nearest town hall meeting, take… Read More
The Farm Bill Failed. Now What? House Conservatives Weigh In
The U.S. House’s rejection of the nearly trillion-dollar “farm” bill has prompted talk on Capitol Hill of separating the legislation into two parts: agriculture programs… Read More
LawNews
California Marriage Case: It’s Not Over Yet
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in Hollingsworth v. Perry, finding that the official proponents of California’s Proposition 8 (which defined marriage… Read More
D.C. Metro to “Phantom Planter”: Stop Planting Flowers, Or Else!
“It’s sort of beyond the scope of what you would imagine some private citizen would do,” said Washington, D.C., Metro spokesman Dan Stessel of Henry… Read More
National Employee Freedom Week: Informing Workers of Their Rights
Rob Brough and John Cress are public school teachers in Pennsylvania. When they wanted to quit their teachers union because of its increasing politicization, they… Read More
Catch Jim DeMint on “Meet the Press” This Sunday
Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint will appear on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” this Sunday to review the week’s top news stories. In addition to… Read More
Health CareNews
Hobby Lobby Wins Major Victory Against Obamacare Mandate
Late this afternoon, a federal court granted a major victory to the Green family and Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., issuing the company a temporary restraining… Read More
Most Americans Oppose an Internet Sales Tax
Imagine being forced to collect sales tax for a state government where your business has no presence or facing audits from a state that is… Read More
Russia’s Advantage: No Reason to Follow Obama’s Lead in Nuclear Arms Reductions
After President Obama made another pledge to reduce nuclear arms in Berlin last week, the underlying message seems to be that, if the United States… Read More
Grounded: Budget Concerns Create “No-Fly Zone” for U.S. Military
As a result of defense budget instability, the Air Force is trying to figure out how to maintain current operations with fewer resources. It’s not… Read More
Edward Snowden Dodges Cybersecurity Regulations
Edward Snowden, the leaker of the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance programs, was reportedly able to smuggle thousands of classified documents out of the NSA… Read More
Ayotte on America’s Tragic Lack of Purpose in the World
At a time when Washington has almost nothing to say about national defense, Senator Kelly Ayotte (R–NH) recently delivered a major address on America’s state… Read More
American Public Still Doesn’t Like Obamacare
Despite declarations made by advocates that Obamacare is the “law of the land,” a new Gallup poll shows that a majority of Americans still disapprove… Read More
Farm Bill: The House of Second Chances
The farm bill died in the House—but could it live again? House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) is reportedly pushing to split up the old… Read More
SocietyNews
“Women Deliver” Fails to Deliver for Women’s Basic Needs
Women Deliver hosted its third annual conference last month as part of its effort to achieve the targets set forth in the United Nations’ Millennium… Read More
