Morning Bell: The Protectionist Threat of Another Great Depression
A financial bubble fueled by easy money and loose credit bursts. Unemployment shoots up, and gross domestic product falls sharply. Some in the U.S. Congress… Read More
A financial bubble fueled by easy money and loose credit bursts. Unemployment shoots up, and gross domestic product falls sharply. Some in the U.S. Congress… Read More
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Heads of state from across the developing world arrived in New York last week for the annual United Nations meetings. Heading up the agenda this… Read More
Each week, The Heritage Foundation features one of its more than 250,000 Facebook Fans on its “Featured Fan” page. This week’s fan is Karin Agness,… Read More
Currently 3.4 million Americans seniors covered by Medicare find themselves in a giant “doughnut hole,” but despite the tasty terminology, there’s nothing sweet about it…. Read More
Before concluding that today’s New York Times article on Taliban outreach to Karzai means that an Afghan settlement is on the horizon, consider today’s other… Read More
NBC News is on Day Two of its week-long series Education Nation. You cannot turn on any of the NBC family of networks (MSNBC, CNBC,… Read More
The inability of Congress to stop the Obama tax hikes is already having a real, negative impact on the U.S. economy. Businesses are delaying hiring… Read More
It’s 2010, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at the American school system. Technological advances that we all take for granted in our homes,… Read More
Scott Rasmussen, President of Rasmussen Reports, a widely respected polling company. For years, Rasmussen polling has helped legislators, business leaders, and the general public gain… Read More
With the expiration of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts fast approaching, the debate over whether to extend the cuts, and for whom, has taken… Read More
It was only fitting that Stephen Colbert, host of a comedy faux news show, testified before Congress in character and make-up regarding the treatment of… Read More
A quality education in America shouldn’t come down to a lottery ball. But that’s exactly how life plays out for many low-income families seeking an… Read More
Friday’s testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights by Christopher Coates — a career Justice Department lawyer and supervisor — knocked down the Potemkin… Read More
House Republicans released a “Pledge to America” last week detailing legislative proposals for the next Congress to address the nation’s challenges with deficits, health care… Read More
There’s been a lot of misinformation when it comes to the new health care law—but not in the way Obamacare supporters have been claiming. We… Read More
It should anger black Americans that, for decades, government at all levels has denied black parents and their children the opportunity to pursue a quality… Read More
Heads of state and global leaders gathered at the U.N. this week to bemoan a lack of progress on meeting many of the targets for… Read More
While Colombia’s new president Manuel Santos was at the United Nations today, he received welcomed news: Colombia’s military had located and attacked a camp belonging… Read More
This morning on the Today Show, host Matt Lauer sat down with President Obama to discuss his Administration’s policies on school reform. Toward the end… Read More
Would the discovery that, every day, nearly 6 million youths in America are immersed in abusive environments create a shock wave and a call to… Read More
House Cloakroom: September 27 – October 1, 2010 Analysis: The House will be in its final week of action before recessing until after the election…. Read More
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Newark Mayor Cory Booker appeared on the Oprah show last Friday to accept a $100 million gift from Facebook… Read More
My fellow conservatives, The stakes couldn’t be higher for our nation at this moment. In the coming months, Americans will help choose which direction our… Read More
National attention has been focused on education reform at unheard-of levels in the last weeks, with the release of the new documentary “Waiting for Superman”… Read More
Two of the most prominent “safety net” hospitals in Massachusetts are facing sizable budget gaps again this year, and are turning to the feds to… Read More
On the anniversary of September 11, students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign joined with Americans across the country in holding an observance of the tragedy that… Read More
Yesterday marks six months since the passage of Obamacare. Here’s a quick review of what’s happened since then and what we have learned about the… Read More
House Republicans should be commended for offering an alternative vision for America’s future, in their Pledge to America. It is an important element in moving… Read More
Today, the much-talked-about film Waiting for Superman will make its premier. The movie, produced by David Guggenheim, reveals the gridlock created by school district bureaucracy,… Read More
The probability of cap and trade becoming law rapidly diminished as more and more people saw it for what it truly is: a national energy… Read More
