But We Thought All Economists Loved This Stimulus Plan?
A little while ago, Vice President Joe Biden had the audacity to say, “Every economist, as I’ve said, from conservative to liberal, acknowledges that direct… Read More
A little while ago, Vice President Joe Biden had the audacity to say, “Every economist, as I’ve said, from conservative to liberal, acknowledges that direct… Read More
Hardly any Washington policymaker is worrying about inflation right now. Who blames them? The economy continues to contract; prices are falling, not rising; and, President… Read More
Congressional conferees reportedly stripped the $50 billion energy loan guarantee authorization from the final version of the stimulus package. Although most emissions-free sources would have… Read More
While campaigning for passage of his economic stimulus plan at the Caterpillar, Inc. plant in East Peoria, Illinois, yesterday President Barack Obama again claimed that… Read More
This afternoon Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) and Representative Trent Franks (R-AZ) introduced a joint resolution to maintain defense spending at 4 percent of our nation’s… Read More
Today, Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) stood up for all Americans — and yes all conservatives — who value limited government and transparent leadership. In withdrawing… Read More
“So my whole goal over the next four years,” President Barack Obama said Monday night at the end of his first prime-time White House news… Read More
Nuclear energy provides the United States with 20 percent of its electricity, but none to Utah. If the state legislature gets their wish, it could… Read More
As the world honors Abraham Lincoln on the 200th anniversary of his birth, it’s worth recalling one of the less well-remembered moments of his career:… Read More
Dick Turpin from Dallas writes: There are two types of people in America today: those who remember the Carter years those who are going to… Read More
The Drive By Media loves to paint conservatives as intolerant bigots any time we point out that illegal immigration costs American taxpayers trillions of dollars…. Read More
The anticipated vote in the House of Representatives on the “stimulus” bill has been delayed, and will not occur today as scheduled. Reasons for the… Read More
All of the major news outlets are reporting that the stimulus bill voted out of conference committee last night has a meager $789 billion price… Read More
Some select quotes from today’s news that don’t necessarily inspire confidence in the Stimulus bill: “[Senate Democrats] don’t know everything that’s in the bill,” said… Read More
The United States Congress is about to pass the largest single-year increase in domestic federal spending since World War II. Despite the fact that neither… Read More
On February 12, 2009, The Heritage Foundation celebrates the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. Our sixteenth President was one of our history’s greatest statesmen, and… Read More
Israel’s elections yesterday sent a mixed message. On the one hand the centrist Kadima party managed to squeak by with a narrow victory over the… Read More
In what has been an unusually and welcoming warm week in the District and with that comes the “What’s so bad about global warming?” or… Read More
Remember when those on the left kept saying it would be the end of American democracy as we know it if the military had the… Read More
“First of all, when I hear that from folks who presided over a doubling of the national debt, then, you know, I just want them… Read More
As Members of Congress push their liberal agenda on America disguised as “stimulus”, it may surprise them that President Ronald Reagan saw this exact scenario… Read More
L. Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center and nephew of the late National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr., visited Heritage last week… Read More
Whatever agreement comes out of the House-Senate conference on President Barack Obama’s Trillion Dollar Debt Plan is completely irrelevant. Whatever spending that Sens. Susan Collins… Read More
From the beginning we’ve warned you that President Barack Obama’s Trillion Dollar Debt Plan will not stimulate the economy, but will instead permanently expand the… Read More
During his first press conference this Monday President Barack Obama said: Look, I would love not to have to spend money right now. This notion… Read More
Great story by the Washington Post today on the false choice President Barack Obama is trying to sell to the American people: President Obama likes… Read More
In three of the last four years, Congress has combined all the outstanding appropriations bills into one large omnibus bill. Each omnibus bill was ridiculed… Read More
Yesterday in Tehran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took up President Barack Obama’s oft-repeated invitation to engage in direct talks with the United States. President Ahmadinejad… Read More
Senator Schumer (D-NY) believes that Americans are happy to have Members of Congress add a billion here, and a billion there into spending bills, without… Read More
That seems to be sentiment coming from Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Ken Salazar: President Obama is shelving a plan announced… Read More
