Assessing Britain’s Procurement Problems
Last week, we noted that a set of slides summing up an internal report from Britain’s Ministry of Defense on defense procurement that had been… Read More
Last week, we noted that a set of slides summing up an internal report from Britain’s Ministry of Defense on defense procurement that had been… Read More
Meeting with his counterparts from Mexico and Canada earlier this month, President Barack Obama said that he expected the Democratic-controlled Congress, after completing work on… Read More
“Nobody is talking about reducing Medicare benefits,” says President Obama…except the lawmakers on Capitol Hill who have proposed to cut roughly $150 billion from the… Read More
In today’s New York Times, Senator Webb makes his case for a new American policy on Burma. For someone so closely identified with opposition to… Read More
In his original budget proposal, President Obama envisioned a cap-and-trade program that would raise hundreds of billions of dollars by selling emissions credits to businesses…. Read More
Yesterday, President Obama announced his intention to nominate Ben Bernanke to a second four-year term as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Bernanke’s tenure coincided… Read More
David Leonhardt reports in today’s New York Times: You might think, then, that a central goal of health reform would be to offer people more… Read More
WASHINGTON, AUG. 26, 2009—Heritage Foundation President Ed Feulner today issued the following statement on the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy: Even in Washington, it’s possible… Read More
The Obama Administration’s claims that General Motors — the federally-owned auto manufacturer — is independent from political entanglements is once again being tested, this time… Read More
Earlier this may, Attorney General Eric Holder testified before the House Judiciary Committee. He was questioned by former California Attorney General and Congressman Dan Lungren… Read More
As the debate over the “public option” for health care heats up, a new attempt to ridicule those with concerns over government provision of services… Read More
Ruben Navarrette has a thoughtful op-ed in today’s USA Today that tries to dissect the problem with immigration and border security reform. What we are… Read More
Defending mounting job losses despite his administration’s $787 billion stimulus package, Vice President Joe Biden told ABC News George Stephanopoulos last month: “The truth is,… Read More
Oklahoma’s lone Democratic Congressman, Dan Boren, opposes any law that leads to a government-run health care system. Moreover, should a health bill pass he pledges… Read More
Last week, in our inaugural Cap and Trade Calamities, we laid out the exorbitant costs the Waxman-Markey cap and tax bill would impose on your… Read More
Versions of single payer systems have been tried in Maine and Tennessee already. Results were disastrous. No wonder, then, that the informed citizens at Rep…. Read More
The New York Times has a front-page story today on China outrunning the U.S. in producing solar panels. The high profile is due to the… Read More
Rather than debate the substance, the White House is in full campaign mode in order to label any opposition to its government-heavy health reform agenda… Read More
Yesterday we linked to analysis from Naval Postgraduate School Associate Professor David Henderson detailing how the Obama administration’s Cash for Clunkers program destroys, on average,… Read More
The Obama administration’s bailout of General Motors and Chrysler has already reached a staggering $110 billion. But even that is not enough money to undue… Read More
If you thought Cash for Clunkers was terrible public policy, just wait till you hear the latest from Massachusetts: Federal economic stimulus cash was handed… Read More
In June of 2008, while campaigning for the election of President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder promised the leftist American Constitutional Society: “We owe… Read More
Don’t look now, but the FCC is back in business. For some nine months the Federal Communications Commission had been operating with no permanent chairman,… Read More
Rather than debate the substance, the White House is in full campaign mode in order to label any opposition to its government-heavy health reform agenda… Read More
D.C. School Choice Supporters Protest Education Secretary Duncan This morning, Education Secretary Arne Duncan held a joint press conference at a school in Washington, DC… Read More
According to a report this afternoon from The Washington Post, Attorney General Eric Holder has decided to appoint a prosecutor to re-examine whether there is… Read More
We’ve already identified some possible constitutional issues Obamacare raises including whether the delegation of power to the “Health Choices Commissioner” violates the separation of powers… Read More
We’ve poked fun at the proliferation of czars under the Obama administration, but we lost track of how many he’s actually created. Now PJTV has… Read More
That’s what David Schoenbrod and Richard B. Stewart call Waxman-Markey in their Wall Street Journal op-ed today: As a candidate for president in April 2008,… Read More
The Obama administration’s Cash for Clunkers program is supposed to run through 8 PM tonight, but as the Wall Street Journal reports, dealers across the… Read More
