Energy News
Energy Production = Deficit Reduction
Today, the House Natural Resources Committee released its list of recommendations to the deficit reduction super committee. Their recommendations would go a long way to… Read More
What Do Marriage and Family Have to Do with Economic Growth?
What do marriage and family have to do with economic growth? A lot, in fact. According to a new international report, there are multiple links between… Read More
IRS’s Difficulty Collecting Obamacare Tanning Tax Is a Troubling Sign
President Obama is fond of saying he hasn’t raised anyone’s taxes. How soon he forgets the $500 billion tax hike in his health care law…. Read More
SecurityNews
Foreign Affairs, Anyone? Department of State Reaches Out to Americans
In its never-ending efforts to be hip, the U.S. State Department last week launched a new Web site called “Discover Diplomacy.” It has video clips,… Read More
Senate No Child Left Behind Proposal: More Big Government for Schools
Last Tuesday, Senator Tom Harkin (D–IA) introduced a much-anticipated proposal to rewrite No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and has announced that committee markup on the… Read More
Morning Bell: 1,000 Days Under President Obama
Today marks the 1,000th day of Barack Obama’s presidency, and unfortunately for America, those days have been marked by deeper deficits, lost jobs, prolonged unemployment,… Read More
Senate Cloakroom: October 17 – October 21
Senate Cloakroom: October 17 – October 21 Analysis: This week the Senate will move to a large appropriations bill which will wrap several individual appropriations… Read More
Quality of Light, Quality of Life
The soon-to-be-effective ban on traditional incandescent light bulbs creates more concerns than just the forceful shift of market shares; it also raises questions regarding individual… Read More
Obamacare’s CLASS Act Collapses; White House Pulls Plug
The Obama Administration notified Congress today that the CLASS Act — Obamacare’s long-term care insurance plan — is flawed, unsustainable, and unable to go forward…. Read More
Freer Trade, Greater Prosperity
Some critics of free trade say that trade agreements just help the “rich” get richer while making the “poor” poorer, but in fact, free trade… Read More
Movie Review: Beyond Hoop Dreams for ‘Mighty Macs’
All things considered, “The Mighty Macs” contains most of the elements of a typical sports movie: motivational characters, a group of misfits, impossible odds, and,… Read More
Why the New FTAs Should Be Embraced
It started almost five years ago with free trade agreements (FTAs) reached between the Bush Administration and the governments of Peru, Colombia, Panama, and South… Read More
Illinois Shows that Taxing and Spending Has Consequences
In January 2011, newly elected Illinois governor Pat Quinn imposed a 67% income tax increase on citizens and a sharp increase in the corporate tax rate… Read More
What We’ve Learned About Terror Trials From the Underwear Bomber
It was supposed to be the second full day in federal court for Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. The so-called “Christmas Day bomber” aka “The Underwear Bomber” faced… Read More
Heritage Presents Luce Award to Former Vice President Cheney
Former Vice President Richard B. Cheney, already enjoying a season of public reflection on more than four decades of service to the nation, last night… Read More
Morning Bell: Why Obamacare Might Cost You a Job
Back in February 2010, when Congress was still debating the Obamacare legislation, then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) proclaimed to America that the law… Read More
Poor Sales or Economic Uncertainty Preventing Stronger Recovery?
Various organizations and media outlets have attempted to refute the notion that government policy is creating uncertainty and hindering economic growth. However, when properly analyzed,… Read More
Egypt: The Military’s Chaotic Approach to Democratic Transition
Nine months ago, Egyptians were protesting in Tahrir Square, calling for former president Hosni Mubarak to step down from office. Today, Egyptians are demanding that… Read More
Morning Bell: Jobs Plan Fails, but Obama Doesn’t Get the Message
When President Barack Obama began his Midwest “jobs tour” in August, he set out to campaign for the passage of a yet-to-be-released plan to turn around… Read More
Steve Jobs and America’s Entrepreneurial Spirit
The recent passing of Steve Jobs, while sad, is a good reminder that the freedom to innovate is, after all, one of the things that… Read More
News
World Waking Up to Iran’s Religious Persecution
Today, an Iranian Christian pastor’s life hangs in the balance as he sits in a prison in Iran. Yousef Nadarkhani was handed a death sentence… Read More
PODCAST: New Debit Card Fees Thanks to the Durbin Amendment
In this week’s Heritage in Focus, regulatory fellow Diane Katz discusses a provision in the regulatory reform bill, also known as Dodd-Frank, that is leading… Read More
Iran, Mexican Zetas, and the Southern Terror Express
A persistent threat scenario against the U.S. has been foreign terrorist organizations—acting independently or in cooperation with violent transnational criminal organizations, and perhaps backed by… Read More
NY Congressman Spurns Constituents’ ‘Occupy’ Protest Concerns
The “Occupy Wall Street” protests have been a thorn in the side of a number of lower-Manhattan businesses. But the U.S. congressman who represents the… Read More
Missile Defense Budget on the Chopping Block Already
The missile defense budget has been on the chopping block ever since the Obama Administration took office. In 2009, President Obama proposed $1.6 billion in… Read More
Tymoshenko Verdict May Push Ukraine Toward Russia
Today, a regional court in Kyiv has found Yuliya Tymoshenko, Ukraine’s former prime minister and leading opposition figure, guilty of “abuse of office” stemming from… Read More
SocietyNews
Court Hears Case on Religious Freedom, Sexual Orientation Nondiscrimination Policies
Last week a federal appeals court heard arguments in an important religious freedom case known as Ward v. Wilbanks. The case illustrates how sexual orientation… Read More
Morning Bell: Obama’s Failure to Confront the Iranian Threat
Yesterday, America learned that Iran conspired to launch a terrorist attack in Washington, D.C., with a planned assassination of the Saudi ambassador and bomb attacks on the… Read More
United States Thwarts Iranian Terrorist Plot
U.S. authorities announced today that they disrupted an Iranian plan to commit a “significant terrorist act in the United States,” making it the forty-second thwarted… Read More
Obama Economy: Wall Street to Lose 10,000 Securities Jobs
Just last week, America learned that September was yet another bad month for the Obama economy, with the unemployment rate remaining flat at 9.1 percent…. Read More
