This year, President Obama proposed cutting $1.4 billion from the Missile Defense Agency budget in an effort to focus on “rogue state and theater missile… Read More
Dr. Craig Idso, is the founder and chairman of the Center for Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change. He addresses concerns about global warming… Read More
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“…and if I’m fortunate before we end this, I won’t have to read one of them.” Apparently Senator Reid is going to use the same… Read More
Announcing the nationalization of General Motors this Monday, President Barack Obama insisted, “What we are not doing — what I have no interest in doing… Read More
Today, the Senate could pass a Food and Drug Administration bill that would grant the agency new authority to regulate tobacco products. Slipped into that… Read More
Tomorrow at 6:10 AM EST, President Barack Obama will deliver a keynote address at Cairo University. If past experience is any guide, he will continue… Read More
By all appearances, North Korea’s Kim Jong-il is a dictator in a hurry. “North Korea has positioned its most sophisticated long-range ballistic missile at a… Read More
Dr. Wang Dan, the foremost student leader in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, joined Heritage’s Lee Edwards today in a conversation in our Allison auditorium…. Read More
As rumored for several weeks, a Chinese company is buying at least one piece of General Motors. GM will sell its Hummer brand to Sichuan… Read More
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When the Supreme Court decided the Heller case last year striking down the District of Columbia’s handgun ban, it recognized that the Second Amendment confers… Read More
Dr. Roy Spencer, a meteorologist at the University of Alabama and someone who works frequently with NASA’s science team, is the keynote speaker at lunch…. Read More
Earlier this year Secretary of Defense Robert Gates released a defense budget request that cut missile defense by $1.4 billion. But that was before Iran… Read More
Government control of General Motors is likely to throw the company into reverse gear rather than forward. By rewarding bad behavior with $50-billion, President Obama… Read More
The first panel at the Heartland Institute today brings together four of the world’s best scientists when it comes to climate change study. The first… Read More
Last week the Global Humanitarian Forum, led by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan released a report claiming that global warming is already killing 300,000 people… Read More
Yesterday, after President Barack Obama again insisted he did not want to run General Motors, we questioned just how reluctant a shareholder the Obama administration… Read More
And how much do they think we should spend? Heritage takes to the streets of DC to find out: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihsDfa-LUO4[/youtube] Find the facts, here.
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Do you remember Miguel Estrada? Back in 2001, Miguel Estrada was a nominee for the United Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. Unfortunately, Miguel… Read More
The Chicago-based Heartland Institute is hosting its Third International Conference on Climate Change and its second this year. The event, taking place in Washington DC,… Read More
The White House Council of of Economic Advisors is set to release a report this morning showing that slowing the growth of health care spending… Read More
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has truly outdone himself this time. He has managed to identify a single piece of legislation passed by President… Read More
This week the House is set to debate the “Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act of 2009” which would provide 4 weeks of PAID leave… Read More
In three words: Everything and nothing. Megan McCardle has more: GM’s main problem is not that the market is unreasonably unwilling to finance a potentially… Read More
Will the new majority owner of General Motors — the United States Government — take an active role in managing the firm as it struggles… Read More
It’s summer and that means gas prices are creeping up and although projections indicate we’re not headed toward $4-a-gallon gas; last summer was a fresh… Read More
Last month when the House Energy and Commerce Committee marked up the Waxman-Markey cap and trade bill we detailed how the legislation would inflict heavy… Read More
The following is the prepared text of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s June 1, 2009 speech at the United States Navy Memorial: Thank you, Senator… Read More
Last week we detailed the absurdity of the Obama administration’s claims that they could control health care costs by ADDING millions of America into government… Read More
At midday today, President Barack Obama will announce details of his administration’s $30.1 billion plan to restructure General Motors. Despite claiming that the administration “will… Read More
Earlier this week, Debbie McLucas, a supervisor at Kindred Hospital in Mansfield, Texas, was told she would have to take down a 3×5 American flag… Read More
