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• The Canadian Patients’ Remedy for Health Care: Go to America!

  Posted February 9th, 2010 at 3:00pm in Health Care, Ongoing Priorities with 0 comments

  One common assertion among the left is that other industrialized nations, such as Canada, achieved great success in health care within their collectivist framework. This, then, begs the question: why is the head of an east coast Canadian province coming to the United States for medical treatment? Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams is seeking heart surgery in [...] More

• Outside the Beltway: Americans Angry, But Also Engaged

  Posted February 9th, 2010 at 11:59am in Ongoing Priorities with 2 comments

  Yesterday’s Rasmussen poll reveals what anyone who has been watching the news for the past year already knows — Americans are angry. They are angry at their government and its failures to provide solutions to the current problems. According to today’s poll, 75% of likely voters are “at least somewhat angry at the government’s current [...] More

• The House and Senate Cloakroom: February 8 – 12, 2010

  Posted February 7th, 2010 at 12:00pm in Ongoing Priorities with 3 comments

  The House passed and sent to the President a $1.9 trillion dollar debt limit increase. More

• Who Profits from the Death Tax? Estate Planning Lawyers.

  Posted February 6th, 2010 at 9:30am in Enterprise and Free Markets, Ongoing Priorities with 12 comments

  If you ask attorney Harold Apolinsky who really profits from the death tax, he’ll tell you, “I think I do, as an estate planning lawyer,” but then he will tell you why the tax needs to be permanently repealed. According to Apolinsky, the death tax (or estate tax, as it is also known) taxes the transfer [...] More

• Playing the Numbers Game With Terrorism

  Posted February 5th, 2010 at 5:08pm in Ongoing Priorities, Protect America with 4 comments

  The Obama Administration’s preference to treat terrorists as mere criminals, and not as hybrid enemy combatants to be tried in military commissions, has been made crystal clear. The Administration boasts that the United States has successfully prosecuted hundreds of terrorists in federal court in the past, and as such, we should continue to use federal [...] More

• Remembering Reagan’s Legacy and Applying It Today

  Posted February 5th, 2010 at 9:04am in Ongoing Priorities with 11 comments

  Tomorrow, Feb. 6, is the 99th anniversary of the birth of Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States. Although it has been 21 years since President Reagan completed his second term and left the White House, he still remains a figure of great interest to many Americans, including a large number of young [...] More

• Why China is Not an Economic Threat to the United States

  Posted February 3rd, 2010 at 8:00pm in Enterprise and Free Markets, Ongoing Priorities with 16 comments

  Recent reports of China’s economic growth contrasted with the U.S. economic downturn have left Americans increasingly concerned that China is becoming a new superpower, controls American finances and will surpass the United States as the world’s leading power. The reality is that the fundamentals of the American economy are stronger than [...] More

• In Their Own Words: Spending Our Way Out of the Recession

  Posted February 3rd, 2010 at 1:30pm in Ongoing Priorities with 3 comments

  House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) was quoted in The Hill earlier this week discussing the country's economic outlook. Despite the President's recent efforts to talk about savings, Rep. Clyburn took a different tack, saying that "wouldn't help alleviate the recession." He added, "We're not going to save our way out of this recession. We've got to spend our way out of this recession, and I think most economists know that." More

• In the Green Room: Scott Brown Strategist Robert Willington

  Posted February 3rd, 2010 at 10:00am in Ongoing Priorities with 1 comments

  In the wake of the historic election of Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown, observers have expressed interest in the strategy behind his online campaign. Three members of the Scott Brown team visited The Heritage Foundation yesterday to talk about the campaign's incredible success. Afterwards, we sat down with Robert, one of the chief architects of their web strategy. More

• Can U.S. Senators Be Recalled?

  Posted February 2nd, 2010 at 11:05pm in First Principles, Ongoing Priorities with 33 comments

  In Arizona, Louisiana and a few other states, well-meaning citizens would like to recall their U.S senators. Fair enough. But while this opinion represents a commendable movement to make Congress more accountable for its actions, it tramples on the U.S. Constitution and undermines the rule of law. Contrary to popular Web sites, the recall of [...] More