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Entries for 'Heritage Foundation'
Tuesday, March 11, 2014 |
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Tell Us Your Common Core Stories
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:21 PM :: 3416 Views :: Education K-12
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The Obama Administration has incentivized states to accept national education standards—called Common Core—with billions in federal grants and waivers from the onerous provisions of No Child Left Behind....
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Monday, March 10, 2014 |
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Who's Watching You Online?
By Heritage Foundation @ 5:36 AM :: 4224 Views :: National News
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“Exploiting social networks for military and intelligence purposes is a global game”
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Friday, March 7, 2014 |
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Two Quotes That Show the Absurdity of Obamacare
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:39 PM :: 3715 Views :: Health Care
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You just don’t understand how much better Obamacare is going to make your life; you’re afraid of change. It’s okay, he wants you to know; he understands....
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Thursday, March 6, 2014 |
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How Many Jobs Are Threatened by the EPA in YOUR District?
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:37 PM :: 5858 Views :: Environment, Labor, Small Business
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Average of more than 770 jobs losses per congressional district....
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 |
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Happy 225th Birthday, U.S. Constitution!
By Heritage Foundation @ 8:54 PM :: 3600 Views :: National News
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It was 225 years ago that the Constitution officially came into effect, when members of Congress were sworn in for the first time in New York City....
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 |
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A Quick Guide to Obama's 2015 Budget
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:06 PM :: 3874 Views :: National News
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...Heritage experts dive into President Obama’s new budget proposal....
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014 |
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Only One of These Makes the Country Work
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:32 AM :: 3802 Views :: National News
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“America’s greatness is found in its individuals, not in the collective....”
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Monday, March 3, 2014 |
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Gov. Bobby Jindal: America, We Can Do Better
By Heritage Foundation @ 9:11 AM :: 4134 Views :: National News
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In Washington, facts can sometimes be stubborn things. I guess that’s why some media pundits thought my comments at a governors’ association meeting last Monday—which highlighted the slow growth and failed economic policies of our President—impolitic or impolite.....
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Friday, February 28, 2014 |
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Heritage Foundation: Hawaii HOPE Probation Potentially Worthwhile
By Heritage Foundation @ 4:51 PM :: 5132 Views :: Justice Reinvestment
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The federal and state governments should look to this program as a potentially valuable criminal justice reform....
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Friday, February 28, 2014 |
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Questions You're Asking About Cakes, Gays, and Religious Freedom
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:59 AM :: 5211 Views :: Family, First Amendment
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...individuals have declined to bake cakes or take photos for same-sex wedding ceremonies—and government has punished them....
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Thursday, February 27, 2014 |
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3 Ways to Make April 15 Less Painful
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:02 PM :: 3687 Views :: Taxes
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“The tax code stables in Washington haven’t been cleaned out since 1986.” And it shows....
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014 |
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Are You Being Represented?
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:02 PM :: 4383 Views :: National News
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Do the hot topics in Washington reflect your concerns about the country?
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014 |
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Obamacare's Dumping Ground
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:11 AM :: 4531 Views :: Health Care
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If President Obama—or anyone else—is expecting that Medicaid will be Obamacare’s salvation, look elsewhere....
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Monday, February 24, 2014 |
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The Protesters' Cry for Freedom
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:32 AM :: 5191 Views :: World News
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The leader of the free world has been largely invisible as Ukrainian demonstrators are ruthlessly picked off by government snipers....
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Friday, February 21, 2014 |
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Inside the IRS Corruption Scandal
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:07 PM :: 5268 Views :: Taxes, TEA Party
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IRS officials admitted that groups with conservative leanings, especially with the words “tea party” or “patriot” in their names, had been targeted....
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Thursday, February 20, 2014 |
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The Problem with Giving America a Raise
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:29 PM :: 4355 Views :: Labor, Small Business
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The CBO estimated that the wage hike Obama and his allies champion would cost 500,000 jobs....
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014 |
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She Dreamed Obamacare Was Harmless
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:24 PM :: 4196 Views :: Health Care, Labor
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Shhh…keep quiet, or you’ll wake Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius....
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014 |
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Jones Act Blocks NJ Emergency Road Salt Shipment
By Heritage Foundation @ 5:47 PM :: 3738 Views :: Jones Act
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The only thing that we’ve been able to define as an American flag vessel would take us a month to get the salt here....
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014 |
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How to Free the Housing Market from Government—and Lower Your Mortgage Payments
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:50 AM :: 3893 Views :: National News
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"...send me legislation that protects taxpayers from footing the bill for a housing crisis ever again...."
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Monday, February 17, 2014 |
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When Presidents Upheld the Law
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:37 PM :: 4110 Views :: National News
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What a contrast to President Barack Obama’s “I can do whatever I want” attitude ....
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Friday, February 14, 2014 |
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7 Times Obama Ignored the Law to Impose His Executive Will
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:55 AM :: 3746 Views :: National News
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"The biggest problems that we’re facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that’s what I intend to reverse when I’m President of the United States of America." -- Sen Barack Obama, 2008
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Thursday, February 13, 2014 |
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If Only a Snow Shovel Could Dig Us Out of This
By Heritage Foundation @ 6:15 AM :: 3650 Views :: National News
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Obama, after less than five years in office, has already increased the debt limit by more than any other president in U.S. history....
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014 |
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Congress Is Giving Obama a Blank Check
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:30 AM :: 3839 Views :: National News
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Congress got tired of fighting. So now they’re working toward doing away with the debt limit altogether....
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Tuesday, February 11, 2014 |
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Obamacare Is So Great, We Just Can't Wait for You to… Oh.
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:21 AM :: 3269 Views :: Health Care
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Hurting workers doesn’t play well in an election year.....
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Monday, February 10, 2014 |
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Stuck in Congressional "Groundhog Day"
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:40 PM :: 3761 Views :: National News
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This happens multiple times a year now with Congress on the debt limit, which we just hit again on Saturday....
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Friday, February 7, 2014 |
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You Can't Trust Washington on Immigration
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:45 PM :: 3845 Views :: National News
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President Obama can’t be trusted to enforce U.S. laws—and that makes many lawmakers hesitant to pass new immigration laws....
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Thursday, February 6, 2014 |
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Bam! We're Already Hitting the Debt Ceiling Again
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:14 PM :: 4028 Views :: National News
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By the end of the week, we’ll be hitting the debt ceiling again.....
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Wednesday, February 5, 2014 |
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Explosive Report: How Obamacare Will Drive People Out of the Workforce
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:05 PM :: 4710 Views :: National News, Health Care
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...the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released a new estimate: Obamacare will cause the equivalent of 2.3 million people to stop working.....
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014 |
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"I Don't Know How President Obama Thinks That He's Helping Us"
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:11 PM :: 4702 Views :: National News, Health Care
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“Was it the biggest mistake of your presidency to tell the nation over and over, ‘If you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance’?”
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Monday, February 3, 2014 |
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C'mon, Obama, Join the Energy Boom
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:26 PM :: 3384 Views :: Energy
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An energy project that would be good for the U.S economy, can be built without taxpayer help, and would have little to no environmental impact?
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Friday, January 31, 2014 |
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Immigration Plan: Trust Obama?
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:28 AM :: 4153 Views :: National News
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House Republicans say they are ready to move forward with an immigration reform plan....
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Thursday, January 30, 2014 |
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What Congress Did While You Were Talking About the State of the Union
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:32 PM :: 4117 Views :: Agriculture
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Congress is very fond of two things: throwing a bunch of stuff into one bill and rushing bills through while Americans are focused on other news....
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014 |
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The President Won't Be Needing You
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:40 AM :: 4345 Views :: National News
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President Obama says this is a “year of action”—and last night he made it very clear whose action he was talking about....
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014 |
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SOTU: 7 Things It's Not Too Late For
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:53 AM :: 4069 Views :: National News
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1. Save Americans from skyrocketing energy bills....
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Monday, January 27, 2014 |
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Is Your Child in the Right School?
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:42 AM :: 3915 Views :: Education K-12
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...Lisa Stevens wasn’t satisfied with her child’s school. Then she heard about charter schools and discovered she could get a group of people together and start one....
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Friday, January 24, 2014 |
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Should We Raise the Minimum Wage?
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:58 AM :: 4719 Views :: Labor, Small Business
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Would this actually help the entry-level workers it is supposed to help? ....
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Thursday, January 23, 2014 |
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Why They Marched, in Their Own Words
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:06 PM :: 5881 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Health Care
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...even Americans who oppose abortion may be forced to support it—through Obamacare....
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014 |
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19 Beautiful Reminders Why Americans March for Life Today
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:58 PM :: 4610 Views :: Life
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Today, tens of thousands of people from around the country will gather in Washington to brave the cold for a cause they believe in....
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014 |
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These Words from Obama Are Frightening -- and Revealing
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:04 AM :: 3316 Views :: Military
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...in the real world, war doesn’t end until both sides stop fighting....
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Monday, January 20, 2014 |
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How MLK's Faith Influenced His Public Life
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:30 PM :: 5275 Views :: First Amendment, Religion
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King explained that “just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco Roman world, so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town.”
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Friday, January 17, 2014 |
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Why Did the Benghazi Story Change?
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:23 PM :: 7351 Views :: National News, World News, Military
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An explosive intelligence report made public this week revealed that officials knew it was a terrorist attack that killed four Americans on September 11, 2012—and they knew right away....
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Thursday, January 16, 2014 |
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How Congress Gets Away with Spending THIS Much Money
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:26 PM :: 3664 Views :: National News
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The relatively small, district-level pork projects are dwarfed, however, by the entitlement programs that are actually sucking away our money year after year....
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014 |
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Government Failures Congress Wants You to Fund This Year
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:02 PM :: 3554 Views :: National News
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Here are a few big failures that need to be eliminated or seriously reformed—but instead are getting millions (or billions) of dollars....
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014 |
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Index of Economic Freedom: US Drops to 12th
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:37 PM :: 3849 Views :: National News
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When President Obama took office, the U.S. was ranked 6th. Now it is 12th.
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Monday, January 13, 2014 |
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Share One of These to Let the President Know You Haven't Forgotten
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:31 PM :: 3297 Views :: Health Care
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In 2009, President Obama threatened those who criticized Obamacare: “If you misrepresent what’s in this plan, we will call you out.”
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Friday, January 10, 2014 |
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Members of Congress Won't Read This Bill
By Heritage Foundation @ 9:20 AM :: 4069 Views :: National News
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Any day now, Congress is likely to release the trillion-dollar Trojan horse that is the spending bill for 2014....
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Thursday, January 9, 2014 |
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3 Things You Don't Need Robert Gates's Book to Know
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:22 PM :: 3275 Views :: Military
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“You don’t need a book from the former Secretary of Defense to know that many of the decisions Obama made during Gates’s watch were a disaster.”
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014 |
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How to Fight Poverty -- and Win
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:37 PM :: 3704 Views :: National News
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President Johnson launched the War on Poverty on Jan. 8, 1964....
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Tuesday, January 7, 2014 |
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2014: Obamacare Puts Down Roots for the Long Haul
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:42 AM :: 3181 Views :: Health Care
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Obamacare creates a new entitlement program while expanding another.....
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Monday, January 6, 2014 |
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The National Debt in One Picture
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:26 PM :: 3608 Views :: National News
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Congress is beginning its new year with a budget deal that busts right through “caps” it was supposed to have on spending....
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