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Sunday, August 5, 2012
Rail, RTTT, Obamacare, 'Green' Energy: The Ulterior Motive
By Heritage Foundation @ 6:47 PM :: 8132 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics

"Disruptive technologies can putter around the margins … for years … But if they get better or cheaper, at some point they can suddenly take off, challenging the status quo."

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Friday, August 3, 2012
Has Any Administration Policy NOT Killed Jobs Lately?
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:59 PM :: 4068 Views :: National News, Ethics

According to the Labor Department's July jobs report, the unemployment rate ticked up to 8.3 percent, 12.8 million Americans are out of work, and 5.2 million have been out of work for at least a half a year....

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Thursday, August 2, 2012
Heritage: Can Conservatives Be Environmentalists?
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:49 PM :: 4045 Views :: National News, Ethics

Efforts to protect the environment in America have ignored the most powerful force for improving the environment: free people....

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Thursday, August 2, 2012
Wind PTC Already Phasing Out—for Certain
By Heritage Foundation @ 6:38 AM :: 3096 Views

Though the eligibility date has a sharp cutoff, the financial flows themselves do follow a phase-out pattern. Wind generation that is put in place by December 31 will receive the tax credit for next 10 years.

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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Obamacare's Anti-Religious Freedom Mandate Starts TODAY
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:45 PM :: 3995 Views :: National News, Ethics

Today signals the beginning of a season of impossible decisions for employers who, for reasons of conscience, have not been paying for abortion....

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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Friedman's Legacy of Fighting for School Choice for All
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:47 PM :: 4785 Views :: National News, Ethics

On the late Milton Friedman's 100th birthday today, his words are truer than ever: "There is no respect in which inhabitants of a low-income neighborhood are so disadvantaged as in the kind of schooling they can get for their children."

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Monday, July 30, 2012
Business Owners Battle Obamacare for Religious Freedom
By Heritage Foundation @ 4:33 AM :: 4767 Views :: National News, Ethics

...forcing nearly all employers to pay for abortion-inducing drugs, contraception, and sterilization services.  Beginning August 1, employers must amend their health insurance offerings to include these drugs and services. And if they don't? How about a fine of $100 per employee per day for non-compliance....

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Friday, July 27, 2012
Justice Department Blocks Voter ID at Every Turn
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:23 AM :: 5139 Views :: National News, Ethics

People seemingly voting after they've been dead for years. Drug kingpins buying votes from poor people to sway elections. Non-citizens being bussed to the polls and coached on how to vote....

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Thursday, July 26, 2012
Senate Votes to Raise Taxes on Small Businesses
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:28 PM :: 4769 Views :: National News, Ethics

Yesterday, the Senate narrowly voted (51-48) to raise taxes on 1.2 million small businesses, which will likely kill more than 700,000 jobs ....

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Thursday, July 26, 2012
Navy Pushes Biofuel Fleet Despite Concerns About Damage to Equipment
By Heritage Foundation @ 5:36 AM :: 6094 Views :: National News, Ethics

Biofuels may actually damage military equipment....

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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Obamacare: 10-20% of Employers to Drop Health Coverage
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:07 PM :: 3306 Views

Deloitte: almost one of out of 10 employers said they are going to drop coverage for their employees because of Obamacare, while another 10 percent said they "remain unsure"....

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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
The Green Graveyard of Taxpayer-Funded Failures
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:53 AM :: 5198 Views :: National News, Ethics

President Obama said in 2010 that "the true engine of economic growth will always be companies like Solyndra."

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Monday, July 23, 2012
States Should Wait Before Accepting Obamacare
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:08 PM :: 4188 Views :: National News, Ethics

The only ways to expand Medicaid are to raise taxes, cut other state programs, or slash health care providers' reimbursements in Medicaid even more....

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Friday, July 20, 2012
Dodd-Frank Financial Regulations Strangling Economy
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:15 PM :: 4602 Views :: National News, Ethics

Dodd–Frank does not end bailouts and taxpayer support for big banks....

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Thursday, July 19, 2012
Let's Be Honest About Outsourcing
By Heritage Foundation @ 6:28 PM :: 5214 Views :: National News, Ethics

The U.S. actually leads the world in manufacturing. Yes, you read that correctly. We produce 21 percent of global manufactured products, while China comes after at 15 percent....

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Wednesday, July 18, 2012
The End of Welfare Reform As We Know It
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:31 PM :: 4877 Views :: National News, Ethics

The Obama Administration made yet another end run around Congress last week—this time, to gut the successful welfare reform law of 1996....

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Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Harmful U.N. Sea Treaty Stalls in Senate
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:54 PM :: 10973 Views :: Energy, Environment, National News, Ethics, World News, Family

LOST would expose the U.S. to international environmental lawsuits [6] that would harm its environmental, economic, and military interests—including suits based on alleged U.S. contributions to global climate change....

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Monday, July 16, 2012
Obama Tells Entrepreneurs "You Didn't Build" Your Business
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:30 PM :: 5532 Views :: National News, Small Business

"Look, if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own. You didn't get there on your own. I'm always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart." -- Barack Obama

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Friday, July 13, 2012
Obama's Imperial Presidency Guts Welfare Reform
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:04 PM :: 5101 Views :: National News, Ethics

The new policy guts the federal work requirements that were the foundation of the Clinton-era reform ....

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Thursday, July 12, 2012
House Repeals Obamacare; What’s Next
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:23 PM :: 2235 Views

If Senators take a few simple actions, they can force a debate and recorded vote in the Senate this year....

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Thursday, July 12, 2012
Obama Fails to See "Serious Impact" of Hugo Chavez
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:34 PM :: 4150 Views :: World News

President Obama has been stumbling on the economy, and this week he added more proof of his weakness on foreign policy....

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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
House Votes to Repeal Obamacare
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:46 PM :: 6322 Views :: National News, Ethics

...this is only the second time the House will have voted to fully repeal the law....

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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Obama Embraces Taxmageddon
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:49 PM :: 2461 Views

"The last thing you want to do is to raise taxes in the middle of a recession, because that would just suck up—take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole." -- That was President Obama in 2009

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Monday, July 9, 2012
Rail: Transportation Secretary Wants Us to Be Like Communist China
By Heritage Foundation @ 4:19 PM :: 5994 Views :: National News, Ethics

China’s attempt at a high-speed rail network is fraught with corrupt officials, impossible costs, and deadly safety failures. But U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood wishes America would follow it as a model....

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Friday, July 6, 2012
Jobs, Unemployment Stuck
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:00 PM :: 5379 Views :: National News, Ethics

According to their projections, by now, unemployment should be at 5.5 percent. Instead, of course, it’s 8.2 percent—and has been above 8 percent for 41 straight months....

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Thursday, July 5, 2012
Governor Walker Breaks New Ground in Higher Ed
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:40 PM :: 3904 Views :: National News, Ethics

The problem of college affordability is recognized on both sides of the aisle, but sadly, most efforts to abate the problem - such as increasing federal subsidies - have only exacerbated it. 

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Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Does the Declaration of Independence Still Matter?
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:37 PM :: 4597 Views :: National News, Ethics

"all that Progressives ask or desire is permission…to interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian principle"

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Tuesday, July 3, 2012
The Energy Revolution and Its Discontents
By Heritage Foundation @ 4:24 PM :: 4282 Views :: National News, Ethics

A recent study by Harvard Research Fellow Leonardo Maugeri found that the United States' incredible shale reserves represent "the most important revolution in the oil sector in decades."

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Monday, July 2, 2012
Obamacare: Five Broken Promises
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:51 PM :: 4589 Views :: National News, Ethics

Obamacare ends Medicare as we know it, including severe physician reimbursement cuts ....

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Friday, June 29, 2012
Heritage: Join the Fight to Repeal Obamacare
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:09 PM :: 4624 Views :: National News, Ethics

This decision will energize freedom-loving Americans to once again take matters into their own hands....

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Thursday, June 28, 2012
Fast and Furious: The Events Leading to Eric Holder’s Contempt Vote
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:22 PM :: 4859 Views :: National News, Ethics

history and timeline of the operation and subsequent scandal....

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Thursday, June 28, 2012
Obamacare After the Court
By Heritage Foundation @ 5:16 AM :: 4841 Views :: National News, Ethics

The policy landscape will change dramatically after 10 a.m. today. If the Supreme Court does not strike down Obamacare in its entirety, Congress should move to repeal it....

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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Inouye, Akaka Vote Against Raises for Union Workers
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:08 PM :: 6588 Views :: National News, Ethics

The RAISE Act would lift the ceiling on unionized workers' wages by allowing employers to pay individual workers more—but not less—than the union contract specifies.

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Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Supreme Court Upholds Immigration Checks, but Administration Counters
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:35 PM :: 4683 Views :: National News, Ethics

"That means police statewide can immediately begin calling to check immigration status—but federal officials are likely to reject most of those calls," reports Stephen Dinan of The Washington Times.

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Monday, June 25, 2012
Protecting Religious Liberty from Obamacare
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:56 AM :: 4919 Views :: National News, Ethics

The Supreme Court will hand down its verdict on Obamacare this week, making it a timely occasion for Americans to show their support for religious freedom....

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Friday, June 22, 2012
Tax Credits for Wind Energy: There’s No Free Lunch
By Heritage Foundation @ 6:04 PM :: 4636 Views :: National News, Ethics

“the leading wind project developers and manufactures are canceling their plans for 2013 and wind development will grind to a halt due to the uncertainty of a PTC extension.… "

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Friday, June 22, 2012
Imperial Presidency
By Heritage Foundation @ 5:54 PM :: 5004 Views :: National News, Ethics

The President himself has admitted he doesn't have the authority to do this....

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Thursday, June 21, 2012
President Obama's Fast and Furious Scandal Grows
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:00 PM :: 4558 Views :: National News, Ethics

On the night of December 15, 2010, U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was shot and killed by an untraceable assault weapon that was deliberately handed to Mexican drug lords by U.S. officials ....

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Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Obama's War on Domestic Energy Production
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:27 PM :: 4329 Views :: National News, Ethics

Today, the Senate will vote on the fate of one of the most expensive regulations of all time....

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Tuesday, June 19, 2012
School Choice in D.C. Saved…For Now
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:04 AM :: 2210 Views

President Obama has begun "evolving" his positions on various policy issues as polls show him neck and neck with Mitt Romney. His latest about-face restores a popular school voucher program for needy children in Washington, D.C.—after he had yanked its funding....

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Monday, June 18, 2012
The Grecian Formula for Economic Decline
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:39 PM :: 4512 Views :: National News, Ethics

The President and his team have been blaming "European headwinds" for some of the U.S. economy's woes. But the truth is that the policies pursued by Washington and Athens are frighteningly similar....

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Friday, June 15, 2012
How Taxmageddon Will Impact You
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:53 PM :: 4390 Views :: National News, Ethics

"I've said that this is a make-or-break moment for the middle class, and I believe it," President Obama told an Ohio crowd yesterday. Indeed it is—because in a sluggish economy, American taxpayers are about to be clobbered by the largest tax increase in history....

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Thursday, June 14, 2012
The American Spirit
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:06 AM :: 4864 Views :: National News, Ethics

... today we have voices suggesting that America's best days are behind her ....

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Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Auto Bailout Was Really Just a UAW Bailout
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:52 PM :: 4884 Views :: National News, Ethics

President Obama told the United Auto Workers (UAW) in February not to listen to critics of the auto bailout who said union members "made out like bandits—that saving the auto industry was just about paying back the unions."

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Tuesday, June 12, 2012
New NLRB Rule Allows 'Union Cells'
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:33 PM :: 4755 Views :: National News, Ethics

...most employees will not get to vote; only shoe salesmen will cast ballots. Not all shoe salesmen, however. Only those selling women's shoes....

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Monday, June 11, 2012
The Private Sector is Not "Doing Fine"
By Heritage Foundation @ 3:12 PM :: 4452 Views :: National News, Ethics

...on Friday, President Barack Obama informed America that “the private sector is doing fine.” This, of course, was news to the 12.7 million people who are out of work....

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Friday, June 8, 2012
Paycheck Fairness Act: Jackpot Justice for Trial Lawyers
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:40 AM :: 4932 Views :: National News, Ethics

...the PFA allows employees to sue businesses that pay different workers different wages—even if those differences have nothing to do with the employees’ sex. These lawsuits can be brought for unlimited damages....

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Thursday, June 7, 2012
Dysfunctional Washington
By Heritage Foundation @ 4:31 PM :: 5114 Views :: National News, Ethics

Within one year of being elected, Governor Scott Walker (R) reformed the state's public sector pension system, eliminated a $3.6 billion budget deficit without raising taxes, saved taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, and helped create the conditions that have allowed Wisconsin's economy to grow again.... 

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Wednesday, June 6, 2012
A Historic Win for Reform in Wisconsin
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:40 PM :: 4528 Views :: National News, Ethics

The state of Wisconsin has once again lived up to its billing as a Midwestern incubator of Big Ideas....

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Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Changing America's Course
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:58 PM :: 4557 Views :: National News, Ethics

There's no way to predict how the 2012 elections will turn out. But it will be a turning point in American history....

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