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• 5 Myths About White House Immigration Reform

  Posted February 5th, 2010 at 11:00am in Protect America with 31 comments

  1. There will be lots of positive measures in the bill that conservatives will support. That does not matter. A massive amnesty will overwhelm all the positive affects of visa reforms, added security workplace enforcement , and even establishing temporary worker programs. That is exactly what happened when the same approach was tried in 1986. 2. The [...] More

• Morning Bell: When Did the American People Elect Eric Holder Commander in Chief?

  Posted February 4th, 2010 at 9:24am in Protect America with 10 comments

  Following weeks of strong bipartisan criticism of their handling of terror trials and detainees, Attorney General Eric Holder released a letter yesterday defending the Obama administration’s criminal justice system approach to prosecuting the war against al-Qaeda. Defending his administration’s handling of the Flight 253 terrorist, Holder wrote: “I made the decision to charge Mr. Abdulmutallab with federal [...] More

• Immigration Amnesty Bill—Will it Rise From Grave?

  Posted February 1st, 2010 at 5:45pm in Protect America with 12 comments

  In another affirmation of the truism, “You can’t fool all of the people all of the time,” President Obama’s base has noticed that his promise to push through an amnesty bill looks pretty hollow. “Thirty-seven words,” writes Ruben Navarrette Jr for CNN, “In this week’s State of the Union address — which was more [...] More

• Morning Bell: The State of Our Union

  Posted January 26th, 2010 at 7:59am in Ongoing Priorities with 109 comments

  The President of the United States tomorrow will inform the Congress on the State of our Union, as he is constitutionally mandated to do. The past 12 months have seen our country head down a dangerous course, and The Heritage Foundation can only hope that the President will use this time of reflection, coming on [...] More

• Unionizing TSA Is A Security Mistake

  Posted January 5th, 2010 at 12:37pm in Enterprise and Free Markets, Protect America with 15 comments

  Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) has placed a hold on President Obama’s nominee for Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Erroll Southers. Since the attempted underwear bombing, many pundits have attacked DeMint for this on the grounds that the agency needs permanent leadership. DeMint should ignore these criticisms: his actions have protected American travelers. Current law [...] More

• Time To Focus On Threats, Not Launching Political Amnesty Fight

  Posted December 31st, 2009 at 10:13am in Protect America with 14 comments

  As if the Obama Administration and DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano didn’t have enough tough issues to handle with the total failure of the post-9/11 system to keep a terrorist with a bomb off our airplanes, the LA Times reports that the Obama Administration is more committed than ever to push for amnesty in 2010. That [...] More

• The Obstructionism of the Left

  Posted December 21st, 2009 at 1:56pm in Health Care with 27 comments

  Over the past few days, as Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) pushed ahead on the most partisan piece of significant legislation in the Senate’s storied history, political leaders on the left have sought to blame Republicans for the failure to achieve passage sooner. President Obama’s political consultant in the West Wing, David Axelrod, said as [...] More

• Guest Blogger: Rep. Olson (R-TX) on Afghanistan Strategy & Karzai’s Ability to Lead

  Posted December 9th, 2009 at 1:04pm in Protect America with 2 comments

  Last weekend, I headed to Afghanistan with some of my colleagues to view firsthand the conditions on the ground as a follow up to the new strategy outlined by President Obama. We met with our troops and senior military officials and, from my perspective there is a lot of positive momentum coming from them. The morale [...] More

• Pakistan Must Act Decisively against Lashkar-e-Tayyiba

  Posted December 9th, 2009 at 12:00pm in American Leadership, Protect America with 0 comments

  A recent alleged terrorist plot that was cracked here in the U.S. shows that the Pakistan-based terrorist group the Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) is closely connected to al-Qaeda and is part of a global terrorist syndicate that threatens not only India, but also Western democracies in general. In October, U.S. authorities in Chicago arrested David Coleman [...] More

• Victory or Defeat: Obama Is Now ‘the Decider’

  Posted November 30th, 2009 at 2:22pm in American Leadership with 1 comments

  President Obama has finally made a decision on Afghanistan, which he will communicate to an anxious nation tomorrow night. The White House announcement no doubt has already fueled many kitchen-table conversations during this Thanksgiving weekend, maybe even heated debates. For the sake of our national security, let’s hope most families have concluded that abandoning Afghanistan [...] More