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Conn Carroll

Conn Carroll is the Assistant Director for The Heritage Foundation's Strategic Communications and he serves as editor of The Foundry, the think tank's rapid-response policy blog.

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• Obama’s “Reset” Button Quickly Changing to “Panic”

  Posted February 9th, 2010 at 5:30pm in American Leadership with 0 comments

  Given Iran’s well established pattern of behavior (and Russia’s, and China’s) we were highly skeptical about President Barack Obama’s “Reset Button” approach to U.S. diplomacy. And now it seems that the failure of Obama administration’s Iranian engagement strategy is about to shift the focus of U.S. diplomacy from “reset” to “panic.” Reuters reports: The United States wants [...] More

• Morning Bell: Snow Slows Obama’s Second Stimulus

  Posted February 9th, 2010 at 9:52am in Enterprise and Free Markets with 30 comments

  The snowstorms that have already dumped over two feet of snow on the nation’s Capitol and that are threatening to dump another 12 to 16 inches, have ground the legislative process to a halt. But that might not be such a bad thing. Senate Democrats had hoped they could pass President Barack Obama’s second stimulus today, [...] More

• Morning Bell: A Six-Hour Infomercial Can’t Save Obamacare

  Posted February 8th, 2010 at 9:46am in Health Care with 79 comments

  Right before the Super Bowl, President Barack Obama spoke about health care reform with CBS News’ Katie Couric: “I want to come back and have a large meeting, Republicans and Democrats, to go through systematically all the best ideas that are out there and move it forward.” According to aides, the President envisions a half-day meeting [...] More

• Budget 2011: Past Deficits vs. Obama’s Deficits in Pictures

  Posted February 5th, 2010 at 12:24pm in Energy and Environment with 3 comments

  Releasing his budget this Monday, President Barack Obama told the American people: We won’t be able to bring down this deficit overnight, given that the recovery is still taking hold and families across the country still need help. … Just as it would be a terrible mistake to borrow against our children’s future to pay our [...] More

• Morning Bell: Second Stimulus, Same as the First

  Posted February 5th, 2010 at 9:46am in Enterprise and Free Markets with 40 comments

  When President Barack Obama was sworn into office, the U.S. economy employed 134.6 million people and the unemployment rate stood at 7.6%. In response to growing job losses, President Obama passed an $862 billion stimulus plan that his economic experts promised would help the United States employ at least 138.6 million people by 2010. Reality has [...] More

• The Public Option Threat Still Buried in the Senate Bill

  Posted February 4th, 2010 at 3:45pm in Health Care with 1 comments

  Most Americans now believe that major health care legislation will not pass this year. But as Heritage Vice President Stuart Butler explains in The New England Journal Medicine one seemingly minor proposal in the Senate health care bill could end up having huge repercussions for our entire health care system: The Senate legislation contains strong [...] 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

• Morning Bell: The President’s Permanent Political Slush Fund

  Posted February 3rd, 2010 at 9:32am in Enterprise and Free Markets with 46 comments

  After suffering major electoral and legislative defeats last month, President Barack Obama took to the campaign trail in Nashua, New Hampshire, pitching his administration’s latest new plan to lower our nation’s double digit unemployment rate. This time, the President hopes to do for small businesses what Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac did for home mortgages. Specifically, [...] More

• Welcome and Get Well Soon!

  Posted February 2nd, 2010 at 2:00pm in Health Care with 0 comments

  The United States health care system is not nearly as free market and consumer driven as it should be. And while government continues to slowly takeover our health care system, and Obamacare would fast-forward that development, the U.S. system is still more free than the Canadian “single-payer” system. And how is government run health care [...] More

• Morning Bell: A Budget for a European Welfare State

  Posted February 2nd, 2010 at 9:25am in Ongoing Priorities with 43 comments

  Last Friday, President Barack Obama accepted an invitation from House Republicans to speak and answer questions at the Republican House Issues Conference. During the Q&A period, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) pressed the President: The spending bills that you’ve signed into law, the domestic discretionary spending has been increased by 84 percent. You now want to [...] More