Ethics

There are plenty of things to be thankful for this week, and this year as well....

Happy Thanksgiving from The Heritage Foundation! As we celebrate and give thanks today, we invite you to read President Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation below....

...today NOAA Fisheries announced two actions to protect false killer whales in the Pacific Islands....

...because Hawaii link its system to the federal revenue code by adopting various federal definitions of income or various federal deductions and credits....

Government unions know that Congress is looking for ways to nip and tuck the federal budget, and they’re counting on being left out of the deal.

If unions are trying to be more popular with the American people, they’re doing it wrong.

HART will sign a full funding grant agreement with the FTA to provide $1,550,000,000 for the Oahu rail project, according to a Congressional notification sent to the Senate Committee on Appropriations....

The shale-oil boom can help the United States surpass Saudi Arabia as the largest oil supplier by 2020, according to the International Energy Agency....

Two relatively new services are facilitating a market for medical services — with price and quality competition, as well as transparency....

• Senate: Cybersecurity – Cloture
• Senate: Sportsmen’s Access to Federal Land – Cloture
• House: Russia Trade Relations, Human Rights Oversight – Passage

In 2010, the five states with the lowest antibiotic use in the nation were Alaska, Hawaii, California, Oregon, and Washington....

Today, five public policy organizations including The Heritage Foundation are presenting their plans to first slam on the brakes before driving off the cliff, and then to reverse course and tackle our massive spending challenges ....

“Investigations have shown that DOE officials intentionally stalled numerous applicants’ reviews in order to force them out of business and protect favored players”

The subsidies for insurance through the newly established state-based exchanges also increased....

... adjusted to reflect geographic differences in housing costs ....

Large changes to both taxes and spending are scheduled to take place at the end of the year unless Congress acts....

James Donovan on CSUF campus November 28, 2012....

Today, hearings begin in the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the House and Senate Intelligence Committees ....

He fell at his apartment in Rockville, Md ... taken to the Bethesda Naval Hospital

...his practice focused on product liability, toxic tort, and environmental cost recovery litigation....

...the federal government has had 13 breaches and failures of its own cybersecurity just in the last six months....

One way the Obama administration chose to deal with the pressing health care crisis was a massive expansion of Medicaid....

Obama must quickly come to an agreement with lawmakers on the "fiscal cliff," a combination of spending cuts and tax increases that pose a threat to the fragile economic recovery....

Electric vehicles are doing poorly in the car market because automakers are unable to lower their prices....

are six major flaws in ObamaCare. They are so serious that the Democrats are going to have to perform major surgery on the legislation in the next few years....

From No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waivers to school choice, education policy will surely heat up in the coming months.

Wind project impacts “may be worse than climate change,” says UK Environment Minister....

The lame-duck session begins today, with retiring and defeated Members of Congress coming back to Washington ... Congress has 16 working days scheduled between now and the end of the year, though it could add more....

For nearly 100 years, America has been celebrating on November 11. Originally it was to remember the end of the First World War that was supposed to be the one that would end them all. Sadly, this was not the case....

...many of the health care law’s serious effects were delayed until after the election. Ten of its 18 new tax hikes have yet to kick in....

"...create a pathway for those that are here...."

A federal grand jury in Honolulu yesterday indicted Marc Hubbardage 44, of North Carolina and Sean Barriero, age 44, of Miami....

“We the People” tell the government what to do; it doesn't tell us.

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...further examination finds that women make 93 cents -- not 82 cents -- on a man's dollar, after accounting for all college majors and occupation....

One vote could decide both the immediate election and the course of constitutional law for decades to come....

Abercrombie and Louie were just dreaming of easy money ...

...teachers' numbers increased 252 percent while staffing and administration experienced a growth of 702 percent....

Crony capitalism describes an economic system in which the profitability of firms in a market economy is dependent on political connections....

After three years of hyper-regulation, the Obama Administration has noticeably slowed its rulemaking in recent months.... 

At $22,394, Hawaii's adjusted average income figure is more than $7,000 below that of the next lowest state....(we're 39% lower than Mississippi and 56% lower than Alaska)

Hawaii looted its catastrophe fund to "balance" the budget and doubled down by taking borrowed money to replenish it....

"It's happening. Romney winning independents, safe Obama states no longer safe, female gap closing. Obama is in trouble."

There are some striking similarities between the private student loan market and subprime mortgage industry....

On this Halloween, a truly frightening specter is looming....

$1436.40 per household per year is currently being paid into Hawaii government employees pensions—third highest in the nation. Table 4 (pg. 48) shows that an additional $1288 per household is needed ....

The United States is experiencing a revolution in oil and gas....

Rather than pretending that the damage of tax increases is limited to “rich” people, it makes sense to look at overall economic effects, either nationally or within each state....

Particularly hard hit is the defense industry, which employs millions of Americans. The Pentagon is set to lose nearly $55 billion....

Retired Judge Charles Woods descibes meeting Pres Obama, V Pres Biden and Sec'y Clinton....