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Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Tell Us Your Common Core Stories
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:21 PM :: 3416 Views :: Education K-12

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
Who's Watching You Online?
By Heritage Foundation @ 5:36 AM :: 4223 Views :: National News
“Exploiting social networks for military and intelligence purposes is a global game”
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Friday, March 7, 2014
Two Quotes That Show the Absurdity of Obamacare
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:39 PM :: 3715 Views :: Health Care

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
How Many Jobs Are Threatened by the EPA in YOUR District?
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:37 PM :: 5857 Views :: Environment, Labor, Small Business

Average of more than 770 jobs losses per congressional district....

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Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Happy 225th Birthday, U.S. Constitution!
By Heritage Foundation @ 8:54 PM :: 3600 Views :: National News

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
A Quick Guide to Obama's 2015 Budget
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:06 PM :: 3874 Views :: National News

...Heritage experts dive into President Obama’s new budget proposal....

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Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Only One of These Makes the Country Work
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:32 AM :: 3802 Views :: National News

“America’s greatness is found in its individuals, not in the collective....”

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Monday, March 3, 2014
Gov. Bobby Jindal: America, We Can Do Better
By Heritage Foundation @ 9:11 AM :: 4134 Views :: National News

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
Heritage Foundation: Hawaii HOPE Probation Potentially Worthwhile
By Heritage Foundation @ 4:51 PM :: 5132 Views :: Justice Reinvestment
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
Questions You're Asking About Cakes, Gays, and Religious Freedom
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:59 AM :: 5210 Views :: Family, First Amendment

...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
3 Ways to Make April 15 Less Painful
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:02 PM :: 3687 Views :: Taxes

“The tax code stables in Washington haven’t been cleaned out since 1986.” And it shows....

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Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Are You Being Represented?
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:02 PM :: 4383 Views :: National News
Do the hot topics in Washington reflect your concerns about the country?
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Obamacare's Dumping Ground
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:11 AM :: 4531 Views :: Health Care

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
The Protesters' Cry for Freedom
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:32 AM :: 5191 Views :: World News

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
Inside the IRS Corruption Scandal
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:07 PM :: 5268 Views :: Taxes, TEA Party

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
The Problem with Giving America a Raise
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:29 PM :: 4355 Views :: Labor, Small Business
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
She Dreamed Obamacare Was Harmless
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:24 PM :: 4196 Views :: Health Care, Labor

Shhh…keep quiet, or you’ll wake Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius....

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Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Jones Act Blocks NJ Emergency Road Salt Shipment
By Heritage Foundation @ 5:47 PM :: 3738 Views :: Jones Act

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
How to Free the Housing Market from Government—and Lower Your Mortgage Payments
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:50 AM :: 3893 Views :: National News

"...send me legislation that protects taxpayers from footing the bill for a housing crisis ever again...."

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Monday, February 17, 2014
When Presidents Upheld the Law
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:37 PM :: 4110 Views :: National News

What a contrast to President Barack Obama’s “I can do whatever I want” attitude ....

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Friday, February 14, 2014
7 Times Obama Ignored the Law to Impose His Executive Will
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:55 AM :: 3746 Views :: National News

"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
If Only a Snow Shovel Could Dig Us Out of This
By Heritage Foundation @ 6:15 AM :: 3650 Views :: National News

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
Congress Is Giving Obama a Blank Check
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:30 AM :: 3838 Views :: National News

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
Obamacare Is So Great, We Just Can't Wait for You to… Oh.
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:21 AM :: 3269 Views :: Health Care

Hurting workers doesn’t play well in an election year.....

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Monday, February 10, 2014
Stuck in Congressional "Groundhog Day"
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:40 PM :: 3761 Views :: National News

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
You Can't Trust Washington on Immigration
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:45 PM :: 3845 Views :: National News

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
Bam! We're Already Hitting the Debt Ceiling Again
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:14 PM :: 4028 Views :: National News

By the end of the week, we’ll be hitting the debt ceiling again.....

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Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Explosive Report: How Obamacare Will Drive People Out of the Workforce
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:05 PM :: 4710 Views :: National News, Health Care

...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
"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
“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
C'mon, Obama, Join the Energy Boom
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:26 PM :: 3384 Views :: Energy
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
Immigration Plan: Trust Obama?
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:28 AM :: 4153 Views :: National News

House Republicans say they are ready to move forward with an immigration reform plan....

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Thursday, January 30, 2014
What Congress Did While You Were Talking About the State of the Union
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:32 PM :: 4116 Views :: Agriculture

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
The President Won't Be Needing You
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:40 AM :: 4345 Views :: National News

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
SOTU: 7 Things It's Not Too Late For
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:53 AM :: 4069 Views :: National News
1. Save Americans from skyrocketing energy bills....
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Monday, January 27, 2014
Is Your Child in the Right School?
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:42 AM :: 3915 Views :: Education K-12

...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
Should We Raise the Minimum Wage?
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:58 AM :: 4719 Views :: Labor, Small Business

Would this actually help the entry-level workers it is supposed to help? ....

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Thursday, January 23, 2014
Why They Marched, in Their Own Words
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:06 PM :: 5880 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Health Care

...even Americans who oppose abortion may be forced to support it—through Obamacare....

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Wednesday, January 22, 2014
19 Beautiful Reminders Why Americans March for Life Today
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:58 PM :: 4610 Views :: Life

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
These Words from Obama Are Frightening -- and Revealing
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:04 AM :: 3316 Views :: Military

...in the real world, war doesn’t end until both sides stop fighting....

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Monday, January 20, 2014
How MLK's Faith Influenced His Public Life
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:30 PM :: 5274 Views :: First Amendment, Religion
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
Why Did the Benghazi Story Change?
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:23 PM :: 7351 Views :: National News, World News, Military

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
How Congress Gets Away with Spending THIS Much Money
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:26 PM :: 3664 Views :: National News

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
Government Failures Congress Wants You to Fund This Year
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:02 PM :: 3554 Views :: National News

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
Index of Economic Freedom: US Drops to 12th
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:37 PM :: 3849 Views :: National News
When President Obama took office, the U.S. was ranked 6th. Now it is 12th.
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Monday, January 13, 2014
Share One of These to Let the President Know You Haven't Forgotten
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:31 PM :: 3297 Views :: Health Care
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
Members of Congress Won't Read This Bill
By Heritage Foundation @ 9:20 AM :: 4069 Views :: National News

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
3 Things You Don't Need Robert Gates's Book to Know
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:22 PM :: 3275 Views :: Military
“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
How to Fight Poverty -- and Win
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:37 PM :: 3704 Views :: National News

President Johnson launched the War on Poverty on Jan. 8, 1964....

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Tuesday, January 7, 2014
2014: Obamacare Puts Down Roots for the Long Haul
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:42 AM :: 3181 Views :: Health Care

Obamacare creates a new entitlement program while expanding another.....

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Monday, January 6, 2014
The National Debt in One Picture
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:26 PM :: 3608 Views :: National News

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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