This afternoon, Gov. Chris Christie reversed course and announced that New Jersey would expand the state’s Medicaid program in conjunction with ObamaCare. The health law originally required states to expand eligibility for Medicaid, a shared federal-state program, but the Supreme
In Virginia, the Fairfax Democratic Party is gloating over the effective removal of voter integrity advocate Hans von Spakovsky from the electoral board of the largest county in the state. As the end of von Spakovsky’s current term on the
On November 8, 2007, then Senator Chuck Hagel spoke to the Center for Strategic and International studies Commission on Smart Power. The topic was about U.S.-Iran relations. “None of us in public office today, the Administration, Congress or Presidential candidates,
Canadian Financial Post editor Terence Corcoran recently suggested that President Barack Obama may be preparing a deal to approve the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast in exchange for a carbon tax. “I see new taxes coming
If Democrats and Terry McAuliffe are going to make an issue out of Ken Cuccinelli’s new book, in which he states (surprise!) his unabashedly conservative opinions, then turnabout is fair play. McAuliffe’s own book, What a Party! My Life Among Democrats:
In his Tuesday State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama promised, “Let me repeat–nothing I’m proposing tonight should increase our deficit by a single dime.” That line quickly proved to be typical political rhetoric, as he spent the rest
This is how the left manufactures an education crisis: “Study after study shows that the sooner a child begins learning, the better he or she does down the road. But today, fewer than 3 in 10 four year-olds are enrolled
While President Obama prepares to tell Americans that every dollar of spending by the federal government is vital – or, more realistically, while he prepares to lie about cutting spending while actually jacking it up to record rates – Breitbart
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has issued a statement indicating its rejection of the latest HHS mandate proposal by the Obama administration. Cardinal Timothy Dolan, head of the USCCB, wrote, “We will not cease from our effort to
One of the world’s premiere environmentalists, credited as a founder of the green movement, is fighting plans to erect wind turbines in his own village. Professor James Lovelock, 93, is renowned for having created the “Gaia Theory” and becoming one
Heritage Foundation: A book event- While the Left likes to pretend that they oppose bullying with all their heart and soul, Ben Shapiro, editor-at-large of Breitbart.com, argues that in reality the Left is the greatest purveyor of bullying in modern
At your next gathering of conservatives, ask a simple question: “What is the conservative strategy for restoring legitimate constitutional government in America?” While you are at it, ask your fellow conservatives to name a single conservative initiative that has
After doling out 80% of the Department of Energy (DOE) loan program’s $20.5 billion to President Barack Obama’s top donors, taking three months to plug a hole during the worst marine oil spill in American history, and failing to achieve
The man who oversaw the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, ex-CIA director Leon Panetta, vouched for “Zero Dark Thirty,” calling it a “good movie” even though the tale of the biggest manhunt in history had to be simplified for
With the economy on the rocks, unemployment up to 7.9 percent again, 8.5 million more Americans outside the labor force now than there were in January 2009, and gas prices set to jump, the US Senate is placing its laserlike
It’s National School Choice Week and Heritage has a timely reminder that school choice works: students who participate in the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (DCOSP)–a private school voucher program for low-income K-12 students–graduate at significantly higher rates than their peers,
National School Choice Week, a grass roots effort that hopes to raise the nation’s awareness of the benefits of school choice, is hosting its first nationwide whistle-stop train tour from Jan. 25th — Feb. 2nd. Over 3,500 events have been independently
Israelis across the spectrum are coalescing behind the recognition that they don’t have a partner for peace; finally even those on the Left are seeing the grim reality of Arab intransigence. Just as Arab countries across the Middle East have
By HRVOJE HRANJSKIAssociated PressMANILA, PhilippinesAll 79 officers and crew of a U.S. Navy minesweeper stuck on a coral reef in the central Philippines have left the ship two days after efforts to free the vessel failed, the Navy said Saturday.
National Rifle Association President David Keene on The Heritage Foundation’s Istook Live, broadcast Jan. 17, 2013
Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling is selling the blood-stained sock he wore during the 2004 World Series. (AP) Schilling’s bloody sock going up for auctionPROVIDENCE, R.I. His video game company in bankruptcy, Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt
Efforts to eliminate pork and offset spending from the Hurricane Sandy relief package failed Tuesday night, as President Barack Obama and Democrats declared victory for an aid bill that will total over $60 billion. Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) sponsored an
Remember equivalence relations? If A = B, and B=C, then A=C? Let’s illustrate how Jewish Democrats do their own twisted version when it comes to Barack Obama, Chuck Hagel, and Israel. Barack Obama is infallible. Barack Obama loves Israel. Therefore
Promised Land, the new anti-fracking film starring Matt Damon, may have more difficulty polarizing opinion against fracking than environmentalists would have thought. Fracking, the process that shoots water, sand and chemicals into shale-rock formations to force out oil and gas,
By MIKE IVESAssociated PressHANOI, VietnamNghiem Ngoc Thuy has been slinging coffees to thirsty Vietnamese for 20 years in her colonial-style villa with peeling shutters, and she and her customers aren’t too worried that the imminent arrival of U.S. giant Starbucks
