Do Americans have a right to government-run health care? Is it “the consent of the governed” to be forced to obey the dictates of unelected bureaucrats? Does religious liberty allow our government to impose a secular culture? These are among great questions of the day to which Americans ought to apply the guiding principles of our nation’s founding, Matthew Spalding, a constitutional scholar at The Heritage Foundation, argues in his new book “We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future.” Spalding is sure to talk about “We …
Why Government Still Doesn’t Have the Solutions Political irony has experienced a profound illustration in the early days of the Obama administration. Seldom has a president rendered such thoughtful tribute to a predecessor whose values his every legislative effort was certain to undermine. Case in point: Two events on Capitol Hill during the first week of June 2009 were coordinated to honor the life and legacy of Ronald Reagan. At a signing ceremony in the White House Diplomatic Room, President Obama authorized a centennial commission to plan for the former …
The Heritage Foundation never has been more important than it is today, especially in raising up “the next generation of conservative leaders,” says the first new chairman of the Board of Trustees since Bill Clinton ended George H.W. Bush’s residency at the White House. The founders of the think tank, Heritage Chairman Thomas A. Saunders III recalls, “realized there was a void of conservative thought in America in the aftermath of the policies of the New Deal and the Great Society.”
NAME: Rich Galen OCCUPATION: Writer, Political Pundit, Public Relations Advisor, Philosopher HOMETOWN: Alexandria, VA Rich Galen is the author of MULLINGS, a three-day-a-week column, which reaches some 400,000 people per month and is considered required reading by senior reporters and operatives on both sides of the aisle. He began writing MULLINGS in 1998 when he served as Executive Director of GOPAC. Prior to that stint, he served as press secretary to Dan Quayle, when he was a Congressman and a U.S. Senator; and to Newt Gingrich when Gingrich was House …
Heritage President Ed Feulner addresses members of The Heritage Foundation’s President’s Club about the current state of the conservative movement. Click here to read Feulner’s speech. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lWdQ5j_HoA[/youtube]
