From Heritage Newspapers: On Senior Day 2011, more than 100 University of Michigan Law School grads walked out on a speech by Ohio Senator Rob Portman. Last Year, President Obama spoke to the University of Michigan. He criticized “poisonous” rhetoric
Unfortunately, sometimes the most important news doesn’t always make the headlines it should. While Osama bin Laden may have contemplated attacking America’s train system before his demise, the Obama administration, particularly the E.P.A., have been orchestrating a train wreck of
The U.S. House took another whack this week at defunding Obamacare–although the Senate and White House are poised to protect the funding. They took a good swing, but didn’t get a hit. This week the House by 238-183 passed HR
Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) speaking to a Latino internet news service launches into a condescending reproach to his fellow senator from Florida. The ethnic implication of Reid’s remarks bring to mind his statement from the 2010 election when he declared
Nothing is free. You pay a price for everything. Anything of value is worth working for. These are the values my father tried to beat into my thick skull…with varying degrees of success. Once, still in high school, I approached
David Kreutzer of Heritage has a great item up on The Foundry, on WaPo’s remarkable (it was WaPo!) exposé of the miracle Chinese bullet trains actually leaving a trail of, well, leaving fiscal and other wreckage in their wake. He
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. A terrorist explosion in Marrakesh, Morocco, kills 14 people Marrakesh, Morocco, bombing An explosion, the suspected work of a suicide bomber, took the lives of 14 people in a popular cafe in a cultural
Andrew Breitbart was in Washington last week to promote his new book, “Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World!” He visited The Heritage Foundation to talk about the Democrat-Media Complex, his conversion to conservatism, how the Clarence Thomas
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[youtube 2GCcVtpWVQc] Before his speech at The Heritage Foundation last week to discuss his new book, Andrew Breitbart sat down with us to discuss the power of the media and the continued influence of the Tea Party. Throughout the book,
Today, the Palestinians celebrated “Passover” by once again desecrating the Tomb of the Biblical Joseph, as they have done three times before. A group of Breslov Hassidim’s regular twilight visit to Palestinian controlled Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus came to a
First, he won the health care debate handily. President Obama had no answer to Paul Ryan’s charge that ObamaCare double-counted the $500 billion “savings” it had cut from Medicare to spend elsewhere. Later, even Obama’s own head of Health and
From Accuracy in Media‘s Allie Duzett: As Accuracy in Media has documented, The New York Times has a strong history of defending unions and union bosses. An article published on April 12, 2011, followed this Times tradition by glorifying union
Today, in 2006, Gov. Mitt Romney signed into law RomneyCare, his health care ‘reform’ plan. It provided the foundation for ObamaCare. Romney drew from the guidance of the ‘conservative’ Heritage Foundation to enact an individual mandate, backed by the power
House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) has proposed a budget for grown-ups. Washington’s big spenders have responded with the tired clichés we expect from defenders of big government: “Pulling the rug out from under seniors,” says Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI).
From The Wall Street Journal: Our budget, which we call The Path to Prosperity, is very different. For starters, it cuts $6.2 trillion in spending from the president’s budget over the next 10 years, reduces the debt as a percentage
What would you think if George Soros were organizing his fellow anti-American, globalist, neo-Marxist “thought leaders,” in pursuit of globally governed banking and finance, in a second Bretton Woods conference? Would you consider that their goals include dragging American influence
It’s budget time again. And Democrats are once again taking down and dusting off all their human shields and straw people, in order to convince those Americans, who are still unable to think for themselves, that they will die if
[audio: http://newledger.com/podcasts/CoffeeandMarkets0331110.mp3] Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson is joined by Rory Cooper to discus a possible deal in the House to avoid a government shutdown. Then Pejman Yousefzadeh talks
Compared to President Obama’s other initiatives, the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program barely registers on the government’s balance sheet. Yet the $7,500 scholarships for poor children are apparently still too costly for a White House beholden to Big Labor. [youtube rEySpQDdf_o]
Last week, while passing through Sin City (aka Washington, DC), I had the opportunity to attend a screening of Atlas Shrugged, Part One at the Heritage Foundation. As one whose life took a remarkable turn nearly two decades ago, in
Last week, while passing through Sin City (aka Washington, DC), I had the opportunity to attend a screening of Atlas Shrugged, Part One at the Heritage Foundation. As one whose life took a remarkable turn nearly two decades ago, in
On March 23rd we went to the Atlas Shrugged movie premiere at the Heritage Foundation in Washington DC. Afterward we were able to catch up with producer Harmon Kaslow and several people who attended the premiere. Here is what they
Fascinating profile of Charles and David Koch in The Weekly Standard: A few years ago Richard Fink told Charles and David [Koch] to prepare for the worst. The brothers were raising their political profile, Fink said, and that would come
On March 23rd we went to the Atlas Shrugged movie premiere at the Heritage Foundation in Washington DC. Afterward we were able to catch up with producer Harmon Kaslow and several people who attended the premiere. Here is what they
