After the Heritage Foundation discovered that the Obama administration effectively gutted the work requirements that were central to the Welfare Reform Act of 1996, the Obama campaign has been on the defensive. Bill Clinton criticized Obama but then walked backed
Voter ID laws have emerged as a major dispute in the months before the 2012 election, pitting the Obama administration against a growing number of states seeking to ensure the integrity of their elections. Two states, South Carolina and Texas,
“Legitimate Voters Blocked by Photo ID Laws” read the headline of a July 10 Associated Press article. Sounds pretty damning. It turns out, though, that the article lacked key information about two Indiana voters that might have changed the whole
Ronald Reagan famously quipped that liberals waged a war on poverty and poverty won. One major reason for this is because liberals double and triple down on policies that empower bureaucrats and the establishment elite while creating a vicious cycle
The New York Times previewed a study on Monday that was later made public by the genealogy site, Ancestry.com, that suggests but does in no way definitely proves that Obama may be “descended from one of the first documented African
In 1978, Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote in National Review: “It is almost universally recognized that the West shows all the world a way to successful economic development.” He then added a cautionary note: “Many people living in the West are dissatisfied
On Friday, The Hill reported that the House Rules Committee would consider a rule for the farm bill, which was passed on Tuesday by the House Agriculture Committee. The House will most likely vote on the one-year extension of the
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel blasted Chick-Fil-A CEO Dan Cathy’s divulgement in a recent interview that he was against same sex marriage. Emanuel blasted Cathy, saying that his values “aren’t Chicago’s values” and agreed with Alderman Joe Moreno’s vow to block
On July 5, Breitbart News reported on the Justice Department hiring the “explicitly partisan Democratic data company” Catalist to provide data on registered voters in Texas who supposedly lack photo ID to justify its opposition to the state’s voter ID
***UPDATE: The Romney campaign responds to VP Biden’s statement (see that below): “Today, the race for the highest office in our land was diminished to a sad level when the Vice President of the United States used an anonymous and
You’re watching a cable news show one night and see some of the GOP freshmen House members, part of the 2010 “shellacking” President Obama experienced, telling the audience that the nation needs smaller government, free markets, less spending, and greater
(AP) US poverty on track to rise to highest since 1960sBy HOPE YENAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe ranks of America’s poor are on track to climb to levels unseen in nearly half a century, erasing gains from the war on poverty in the
News that a group of influential conservative governors had joined together to support legislation that would allow their states to collect sales taxes from online purchases has set off a debate amongst conservatives about the “right” position on this issue
Liberals are still lavishing praise on the Occupy movement, months after it dissipated. The most recent example came Monday from Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, who proclaimed Occupy “will always merit praise for placing inequality at the center of our
We are told that one of the most “popular” features of the president’s signature “ObamaTax” health insurance law is one that prevents health insurance companies from denying coverage to those with pre-existing conditions. We are told that the ObamaTax will
Early Wednesday morning, the House Agriculture Committee leadership passed its version of a five-year farm bill to replace the one that expires on September 30, 2012. The bill, which “saves” $35 billion over ten years – $11 billion more than
President Barack Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today released an official policy directive rewriting the welfare reform law of 1996. According to an analysis by The Heritage Foundation the official policy directive “guts the federal work requirements that
On Monday afternoon, as President Obama announced his support for a tax increase that would affect nearly 900,000 small businesses, the Associated Press tweeted the following tweet and story to implicate Republicans as “roadblocks” to business: Republicans often tout themselves as ‘pro-business.’ Yet conservatives
In a June 29 interview with NECN’s Jim Braude on the BroadSide television program, Elizabeth Warren (shown above in this 1950s photograph sitting next to her mother) claimed that her mother’s Native American heritage continued to divide her father’s family
Another odious United Nations treaty may soon come before President Obama–and he is reportedly quite eager to sign onto this one even though it conflicts with our Constitution’s Second Amendment rights. It may also turn over to the U.N. the
A reader at Professor William Jacobson’s Legal Insurrection blog has offered convincing evidence that Elizabeth Warren’s husband, Bruce Mann, also contributed a plagiarized recipe to the infamous Pow Wow Chow cookbook. Subtitled A Collection of Recipes from Families of the
The hack job that TNT’s “Rizzoli & Isles” recently did on fracking seems all too typical of the way Hollywood covers most political issues. One side is presented, and if data is used, it is usually of the junk science
The American Heritage College Dictionary says the noun “savages” can be applied to individuals who are “primitive or uncivilized” and those who are “brutal, fierce or vicious.” In director Oliver Stone’s new film, two types of people are identified as
The “Fortnight for Freedom,” a national campaign led by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), concluded on July 4th with a closing mass held at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C. The campaign, designed
The Supreme Court’s landmark–and controversial–ruling on President Barack Obama’s signature health care legislation last week has expectedly stirred passions and inspired widely varying opinions concerning the court’s 5-4 decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act’s core mandates. Heritage’s Robert Alt and
