Businessman Faces Backlash After Appearing on Obama’s Enemies List
Frank VanderSloot grew up a poor kid in rural Idaho. His father made $300 a month. His clothes came from the Salvation Army. Yet through… Read More
Obama Awards Medal of Freedom to Democratic Socialists of America Chair
President Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday to Dolores Huerta, an 82-year-old labor activist and co-founder of the United Farm Workers union…. Read More
The Next StuxNet?
The Russian security firm Kaspersky Labs has released a report on a new, sophisticated malware variety called FLAME. It has been found on various targets… Read More
Lawmakers Probe Fast-Track Approval for Connected Green Companies
Congressional investigators are probing potential cronyism in a pair of federal green energy programs, including the Energy Department loan program that guaranteed a $535 million… Read More
A Homeland Security View of Readiness
In the past, readiness simply meant the status of U.S. military might. Today, however, national security readiness requires a much broader definition that includes not… Read More
Don’t Strengthen NCLB—Allow States to Escape It
Mitt Romney’s education agenda, released last week, has been receiving accolades for its bold vision to expand school choice dramatically (although as we noted earlier,… Read More
Federal Cyber Woes Continue
Last week, Heritage published a listing of cybersecurity breaches affecting federal government systems from 2004 to the present. The listing is already out of date…. Read More
Morning Bell: Pictures of America’s Medicare Mess
Earlier this month, President Barack Obama sat down with world leaders at the G8 summit and bragged about his track record of supposed good governance… Read More
Morning Bell: Making Memorial Day Make a Difference
As part of my teaching duties at West Point, I took cadets on a study tour of the World War II battlefields in Normandy, France…. Read More
Liberals Plan Propaganda Campaign to Sway Media After Obamacare Ruling
A month before the Supreme Court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of Obamacare, liberal supporters are already planning an aggressive propaganda campaign to… Read More
Top Five Ways Obamacare Crushes the Middle Class
President Obama has repeatedly claimed that he is “going to keep on fighting for what matters to middle class families.” Well, in this “fight,” the… Read More
Missile Defense: Problems with an Assurance to Russia
In today’s Wall Street Journal, Steven Pifer responded to Senator Jon Kyl’s (R–AZ) op-ed that argued that President Obama should refuse to provide written assurances… Read More
Morning Bell: Believe it. Obama’s A Big Spender.
There are some things that are so apparent that they’re not even worth mentioning. What goes up must come down. The earth is round. President… Read More
VIDEO: Senator Tom Coburn on the “Debt Bomb”
“The problem isn’t that we haven’t agreed, the problem is that we’ve agreed way too much,” explained Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) in a recent interview… Read More
The Carney Kool-Aid and Obama’s Fiscal Fantasyland
It’s hardly rare for politicians in Washington to say things that make one wonder what color the sky is in their world. Vice President… Read More
Federal Watchdog: DOE Didn’t Assess Financial Health of Subsidized Firms
The Energy Department’s inspector general released a report recently highlighting the lack of financial oversight in the Department’s electric vehicle funding program. The report underscores… Read More
The Truth about President Obama’s Skyrocketing Spending
Spending has skyrocketed under President Obama, but of late some are claiming that the opposite is true. Case in point: MarketWatch columnist Rex Nutting wrote,… Read More
What U.S. Civilian and Military Leaders Are Saying About Defense Cuts
Under current law, the U.S. Department of Defense faces significant spending cuts over the next 10 years—cuts that America’s civilian and military leaders have candidly… Read More
Leahy Lectures Chief Justice on Obamacare
It’s not every day that a member of one branch of the federal government tries to be the boss of the leader of a separate… Read More
Romney’s Education Agenda: With a Few Edits, It Could Be Great
Mitt Romney yesterday released his plan to reform America’s ailing education system. It goes big on school choice and parental empowerment and calls for increased… Read More
Setting Obama’s “Great Fiscal Restraint Record” Straight
The Obama Administration is piggybacking on claims made by MarketWatch’s Rex Nutting that Obama has not gone on the spending spree everyone thinks he has… Read More
What College Graduates Really Need: A Job
Today, the Senate is once again slated to take up the issue of college loan interest rates. President Obama has made this issue a big… Read More
Morning Bell: Obama’s Blockbuster Secrets
Deep in the cover of night in the town of Abbottabad, Pakistan, a team of Navy SEALs descended from helicopters, breached the compound of terrorist… Read More
Obama Continues to Deny D.C. Children Educational Opportunity
President Obama’s latest budget request was completely rejected by Congress, failing to receive even a single vote. Yet Obama’s budget—universally rejected by Congress—is taking educational… Read More
Loophole Guts TANF Work Requirements
Last week, the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Resources held a hearing addressing an obscure regulatory loophole, known as “excess MOE,” that is… Read More
National Guard Facing Cuts That Would Hurt Domestic Readiness
The American people in many cases do not recognize the incredible value of one of the crown jewels of the nation: the National Guard. Most… Read More
Family Fact of the Week: A Graduation Message: Academic Success Begins at Home
This spring, parents and grandparents throughout the nation will be misting up as the chords of “Pomp and Circumstance” play and the children and grandchildren… Read More
Clean Energy Standard: Significant Costs, Insignificant Benefits
In its pitch for a federal clean energy standard (CES), The Washington Post’s editorial board asks, “Will America do anything significant to slow climate change?”… Read More
The Difference Between a Courageous Budget and a Dangerous One
Despite all the talk of “austerity,” little has been done to stem the tide of the United States’ ever growing debt. The little that has… Read More
The California Conundrum: New, Costly High-Speed Rail vs. Massive Budget Deficit
What do $16 billion and $68.4 billion have in common, other than the fact that each of these figures dwarfs JPMorgan Chase’s recent loss? The… Read More
