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Entries for 'Heritage Foundation'
Friday, September 23, 2011 |
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No CLASS: Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program Imploding
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:43 AM :: 4953 Views :: National News, Ethics
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...federal health experts told them via email that CLASS would result in an "insurance death spiral." Congress passed it anyway....
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Thursday, September 22, 2011 |
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Nonprofits Targeted: Obama Bill Cuts Deduction for Charitable Giving
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:33 PM :: 6643 Views :: National News, Ethics
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President Obama proposes to pay for his $447 billion jobs bill mainly by limiting tax deductions for wealthy Americans. Unfortunately, if enacted, this policy will likely dampen charitable giving....
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Thursday, September 22, 2011 |
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Obama Falling Short on Israel
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:03 PM :: 8120 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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The President's words yesterday come after nearly three years of being weak on Israel, failing to condemn those who threaten the country's existence, and failing to draw a distinction between a freedom-loving nation and those who seek to wipe it off the map.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011 |
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The Obama Investigations
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:59 AM :: 4470 Views :: National News, Ethics
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The Obama Administration is smack in the middle of several growing scandals: the Operation Fast and Furious gun-running debacle and the crony capitalism wrongdoing involving Solyndra and LightSquared.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011 |
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$1.5 Trillion in New Taxes
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:49 PM :: 4009 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Two years ago, as the United States was coming out of the last recession, President Obama was asked how raising taxes on anyone would help with the economy. The President's answer? "Normally you don't raise taxes in a recession, which is why we haven't, and why we've instead cut taxes."
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Monday, September 19, 2011 |
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Obama Announcing Plan for $1.5T in New Taxes
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:46 PM :: 4460 Views :: National News, Ethics
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It's a "glut the beast" strategy the President has employed before--increase spending as much as possible, and then argue that the only answer to the massive deficits is to increase taxes.
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Friday, September 16, 2011 |
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Solyndra Scandal Ends Green Jobs Myth
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:27 PM :: 5463 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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"[W]e can see the positive impacts [of the stimulus] right here at Solyndra." -- Barack Obama
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Thursday, September 15, 2011 |
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The Tale of Two Jobs Plans
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:40 PM :: 4053 Views :: National News, Ethics
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It's been one week since President Barack Obama announced his latest "stimulus" plan, and despite a cross-country road show aimed at selling his proposals to the American people, the commander in chief is finding that his message of more taxes and spending isn't hitting home.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011 |
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John Yoo: Confronting Terror The Best Way We Can
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:28 PM :: 4867 Views :: National News, Ethics
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While opinions about America's post–9/11 policies come and go, facts remain: The U.S. has thwarted 40 terrorist plots through an aggressive and prioritized plan of offense to protect America. That is not a plan to abandon now, in an age of increasingly high-tech terrorism.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011 |
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Surprising Facts about America's Poor
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:33 PM :: 4657 Views :: National News, Ethics
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What President Obama didn't tell America as he was pleading for more spending--and what the Census Bureau didn't report--is what it really means to be poor in America.
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Monday, September 12, 2011 |
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Heritage: Preserve the Constitution, Now More Than Ever
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:51 PM :: 4045 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Heritage’s Preserve the Constitution Series will feature the nation’s most respected judges, legal scholars, and policy analysts as they discuss how to combat these attacks on the rule of law and the Constitution.
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Sunday, September 11, 2011 |
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Remembering 9/11 - Never Quit
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:38 PM :: 4020 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Thanks to important policies put into place after 9/11, America has been able to thwart at least 41 publicly known terrorist attacks....
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Friday, September 9, 2011 |
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More 'Stimulus' from President Obama
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:11 PM :: 5187 Views :: National News, Ethics
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...last night in a speech to a joint session of Congress, the President demanded that it spend another $450 billion on more of the same "stimulus" that has left America with zero job growth and continued economic stagnation.
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Thursday, September 8, 2011 |
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Five Ways to Create New Jobs in America
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:26 PM :: 4194 Views :: National News, Ethics
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The good news is that there is another way, and there are things the President can do to pave the way for businesses to create new jobs.
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011 |
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Four Ways Obama Has Blocked Job Growth
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:02 PM :: 4240 Views :: National News, Ethics
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... the four major measures Obama has taken to prevent job growth in America ....
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011 |
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Jobs Plan: More Government Spending
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:48 AM :: 3748 Views :: National News, Ethics
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... for many on the left, it's the only way they can think of to get the economy moving again, and they think some sort of new New Deal should be included in President Obama’s much-touted jobs speech on Thursday....
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Monday, September 5, 2011 |
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A Jobless Labor Day
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:35 PM :: 4034 Views :: National News, Ethics
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For 14 million unemployed Americans and their families, this Labor Day will not be a happy one....
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Friday, September 2, 2011 |
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Zero New Jobs in America
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:20 PM :: 4082 Views :: National News, Ethics
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... for the first time since 1945, no new jobs were created—Zero....
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Thursday, September 1, 2011 |
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Food Regulators Out of Control
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:48 AM :: 3732 Views :: National News, Ethics
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...four federal agencies known as the Interagency Working Group (IWG) have delivered a plan to drastically censor food advertisers with products deemed to be “too high” in sodium, sugar, or fat that cater to any viewing audience between the ages of two and 11. These advertisers would lose key slots during some of America’s most popular shows, like American Idol, America’s Got Talent, and Glee....
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011 |
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The Fast and Furious Scandal Continues
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:09 PM :: 7494 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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A U.S. government gun-trafficking investigation gone horribly wrong has resulted in the death of a U.S. Border Patrol officer, some 2,000 firearms in the hands of criminals, and the dismissal of a 24-year veteran law enforcement official. This is the story of Fast and Furious....
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011 |
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The Unemployment Empty Promise
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:27 AM :: 4349 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Sometime next week—we don't quite know when—President Barack Obama is due to announce his latest jobs plan ....
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Monday, August 29, 2011 |
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The Right Strategy to Fight Terrorism
By Heritage Foundation @ 7:33 PM :: 7692 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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...Since September 11, 2001, at least 40 Islamist-inspired terror plots aimed at the United States have been thwarted....
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Monday, August 29, 2011 |
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Lessons from Hurricane Irene
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:40 AM :: 4676 Views :: National News, Ethics
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As the effects of the storm continue with "epic" flooding being reported in Vermont, pundits and politicians alike are already calculating its implications on government policy....
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Thursday, August 25, 2011 |
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More Bad News for the Obama Economy
By Heritage Foundation @ 7:57 PM :: 4963 Views :: National News, Ethics
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...Americans' confidence in the economy is sitting at its lowest point since March 2009, and in every state in the country, a vast majority of Americans see the economy as getting worse. Meanwhile, the number of people claiming new jobless benefits rose again last week....
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011 |
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East Coast EQ: When Catastrophe Strikes
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:29 AM :: 4863 Views :: National News, Ethics
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...the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is becoming distracted by responding to routine natural disasters instead of preparing for catastrophic natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions....
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011 |
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NYT Slams "Green Jobs" Pipe Dream
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:59 PM :: 7939 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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On Friday, the NY Times printed a harsh assessment of the state of the "green" economy—including a conclusion that the President's promise to create five million green jobs over 10 years has proven to be nothing more than "a pipe dream"....
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Monday, August 22, 2011 |
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Heritage: What's Next in Libya
By Heritage Foundation @ 9:11 PM :: 6955 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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The Administration’s short-sighted effort to score a quick and easy military victory over Qadhafi’s regime failed to end the threat to civilians in “days not weeks,” as President Barack Obama promised. The administration now must scramble to develop and implement a long term strategy for a post-Qadhafi Libya.
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Saturday, August 20, 2011 |
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China Threatening U.S. Space Superiority
By Heritage Foundation @ 4:54 PM :: 7109 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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...as NASA sends its shuttles to museums, China is making great strides in its space program—with preparations under way for the launch of a Chinese spacelab in the next few weeks....
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Thursday, August 18, 2011 |
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Hertiage: Never Quit
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:26 PM :: 7047 Views :: National News, Ethics, World News, Family
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We must remember how we stood as a nation with a shared purpose and intensity on September 12, 2001 and in the days following. That collective and eternal vigilance is still essential. Never quit.
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011 |
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The Spending Threat to Our National Defense
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:48 PM :: 5544 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta held a joint press event in Washington in which they cautioned that U.S. debt is jeopardizing America's ability to ensure national security and preserve its interests abroad.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011 |
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Obama's Tour of Denial and Blame
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:34 PM :: 4158 Views :: National News, Ethics
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The President's tour began yesterday in Cannon Falls, Minnesota, where in one breath he pointed his finger at Washington's broken politics and in the next he blamed "a string of bad luck ... "
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Monday, August 15, 2011 |
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A Devastating Blow to Obamacare
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:39 PM :: 4218 Views :: National News, Ethics
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With its ruling, the court affirmed the principle that the Constitution means what it says—Congress does not have unfettered power to force the American people to comply with any and all dictates it creates.
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Friday, August 12, 2011 |
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President Obama Sticks to Stimulus Script
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:41 PM :: 4152 Views :: National News, Ethics
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In the 1993 comedy Dave, a small-town presidential impersonator is called on to pretend to be the actual President of the United States when the commander in chief takes ill. Dave steps into the White House, takes his new role too far, and with wide-eyed innocence promises America, "I'm initiating a program to try to find a decent job for every American who wants one."
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Friday, August 12, 2011 |
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11th Circuit Rules Obamacare Individual Mandate Unconstitutional
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:10 PM :: 4433 Views :: National News, Ethics
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This afternoon, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta ruled that the individual mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), more commonly known as Obamacare, is unconstitutional.
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Thursday, August 11, 2011 |
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The EMP Threat to US Security
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:58 PM :: 4481 Views :: National News, Ethics
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First, the electromagnetic shock can disrupt electrical devices. The second effect is similar to lightning—a power surge that would burn circuits and immobilize electronic components and systems. The third is a pulse effect that flows through electricity transmission lines, damaging distribution centers and fusing power lines.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011 |
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Wisconsin Holds the Line
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:12 PM :: 5869 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Yesterday in Wisconsin, Democrats tried to recall six GOP senators in an attempt to gain a foothold in the state's legislature—they lost in four of the races, failing to regain a majority in the state senate. Those losses came despite a $14 million effort waged by unions and liberal groups from across the country, including the AFL-CIO, UAW, AFSCME, MoveOn.org, Teamsters, UFCW, NEA, SEIU, and People for the American Way.
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Tuesday, August 9, 2011 |
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Schools Failing: Obama Admin to grant NCLB Waivers to States
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:12 PM :: 6426 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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"With the new school year fast approaching and still no bill to reform the federal education law known as No Child Left Behind, the Obama administration will provide a process for states to seek relief from key provisions of the law, provided that they are willing to embrace education reform."
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Monday, August 8, 2011 |
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It's the Spending
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:45 PM :: 3664 Views :: National News, Ethics
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...the spending reductions in the deal negotiated by President Obama to raise the debt ceiling were inadequate, and S&P reacted as we predicted....
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Friday, August 5, 2011 |
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The White House Does Not Create Jobs
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:22 AM :: 3824 Views :: National News, Ethics
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At yesterday's press briefing, White House spokesman Jay Carney admitted: "The White House does not create jobs." As the Examiner's senior political columnist Timothy P. Carney (no relation) later noted, conservatives should greet this statement as "a true and long-awaited admission of government's limits."
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Thursday, August 4, 2011 |
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Blame the Washington Bureaucracy for High Gas Prices
By Heritage Foundation @ 4:09 PM :: 4354 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Americans are paying more for gasoline today than they were six weeks ago when President Obama released 30 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. In the Gulf of Mexico, meanwhile, 10 drilling rigs -- more than one-third of the fleet -- have left on Obama’s watch.
This incomprehensible energy policy is not only costing Americans more money at the pump. Bureaucratic delays in Washington are also stunting job growth and adding to the budget deficit.
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011 |
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Debt: Our Work Has Only Begun
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:29 AM :: 4097 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Americans are disappointed. They are disappointed that the debate over our debt limit was about the needs of politicians instead of the needs of the country. They are disappointed with a broken government that refuses to fix itself. And they are disappointed that the Budget Control Act that passed the House last night and is likely to pass the Senate today does not make the transformative changes this nation requires.
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Monday, August 1, 2011 |
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Debt: Liberals Force Choice Between Economic and National Security
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:24 AM :: 4106 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Put the security of the nation at risk or raise taxes. This is the sour "deal" liberal lawmakers are offering in exchange for insufficient spending cuts, according to reports of this weekend's debt negotiations in Washington....
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Friday, July 29, 2011 |
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Struggle to Solve Debt Limit Crisis Goes On
By Heritage Foundation @ 7:16 PM :: 4619 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Even if the Boehner bill passed and became law, America would continue its downward spiral into a fiscal abyss with no end in sight....
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Thursday, July 28, 2011 |
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The Obama EPA's Brave New Future
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:33 PM :: 4788 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Say goodbye to cars and trucks as you know them. Say hello to a brave new future ushered in by the Environmental Protection Agency. It's one where the federal government reshapes a major U.S. industry by administrative fiat, all in pursuit of a policy goal that will cost money, jobs, and lives—all to satisfy the left's environmentalist factions while dishing out taxpayer dollars to an Obama-favored unionized industry.
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 |
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Red Tape Rising: A 2011 Mid-Year Report
By Heritage Foundation @ 9:58 AM :: 5637 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Do you heat your home? Light your rooms? Buy and cook food? Watch TV? If the answer is "yes," then you've fallen under federal regulation. And you're paying for it, too. Gattuso and Katz explain how every product imaginable costs more because of regulations....
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011 |
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Reid’s Sleight-of-Hand Debt Ceiling Plan Guts Military
By Heritage Foundation @ 8:48 AM :: 5422 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D–NV) introduced legislation to raise the debt ceiling this week. In evaluating his plans for future government spending, it becomes clear that budgeting for prudent defense is considered just another line item.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 |
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Debt: America Needs a Better Solution
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:25 AM :: 4508 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Americans tuning in last night to watch President Barack Obama's primetime address from the East Room of the White House might have thought they stumbled upon yet another re-run from the networks.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011 |
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Obama's Dangerous Debt Ceiling Strategy
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:59 AM :: 4849 Views :: National News, Ethics
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[T]here's a certain element of waiting for the markets to weigh in and show Congress that they have to get serious here...You see the Administration almost kind of, almost daring the markets to respond, yesterday saying that the Congress had to act by 4:00 yesterday afternoon before the Asian markets started to open.
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Friday, July 22, 2011 |
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Unhappy Anniversaries, President Obama
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:43 PM :: 5027 Views :: National News, Ethics
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Yesterday marked the first anniversary of the Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Protection Act, Obamacare is just over one year old, it has been more than 800 days since the Democrat-controlled Senate passed a budget, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened its doors on Thursday--the first new federal agency in nearly a decade. You'll notice that no one is celebrating any of them.
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Thursday, July 21, 2011 |
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Heritage: The Fight We're In
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:38 AM :: 5758 Views :: Taxes
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On one side are those who have come to realize it would be madness to let the political class borrow more without imposing a serious check on government spending. They have produced budgets and now an actual legislative plan to get things under control.
On the other, you find those who consider more spending, taxing, and borrowing a royal prerogative. They have produced nothing but rhetoric and empty promises and have pushed this debate to the brink.
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