Photo: Newscom Policy has consequences, and they’re often very predictable. For example, if you tax businesses more, they will be less likely to locate in your country. Heritage expert Curtis Dubay warned last fall that if Congress did not improve America’s punishing corporate tax situation, businesses — and jobs — would walk. Two big companies […]
Photo: AFP PHOTO/NICHOLAS KAMM/Getty Images While some predicted a harsh referendum on the President’s health care law, Sylvia Mathews Burwell’s first confirmation hearing to lead the Health and Human Services Department was free of congressional fireworks. Burwell, currently the director for the Office of Management and Budget, testified today before the Senate Health, Education, […]
Audience for ‘Irreplaceable’ gathers in Louisville, Ky. (Photo: Steve Watters via Twitter) Crowds packed out 723 theaters coast to coast as the movie “Irreplaceable” premiered last night to a total audience topping 97,000, Focus on the Family said. Many showings in the “one night only” event sold out – in Atlanta, Dallas, Miami, Seattle, St. […]
Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom Secretary of State John Kerry today refused to comply with a subpoena to appear before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on May 21. Kerry’s refusal is a far cry from his fulsome promises to cooperate with Congress made as he was taking over from Hillary Clinton. Again, the […]
Photo: Arco Images G/Newscom Massachusetts is the latest state to walk away from its online health insurance exchange. Officials announced today that Massachusetts Health Connector — the agency in charge of the state’s health exchange under President Obama’s Affordable Care Act — plans to abandon its website, the Boston Globe reported. The agency will buy […]
What’s worse than using taxpayer money for special interests and cronyism? Maybe sending taxpayer money to nations that aren’t the best friends of the United States. The Export-Import Bank does both. It loans money to foreign companies and governments to buy products from politically favored American companies. Hard-working Americans are backing these loans. This map […]
Kansas is 24th state to adopt private school choice. (Photo: Getty Images) School choice is blossoming in the Sunflower State this spring. Last week, Governor Sam Brownback (R) signed into law Kansas’ first school choice scholarship program—making it the 24th state to adopt private school choice. Corporations that contribute to scholarship-granting organizations (which provide vouchers […]
President Obama walks with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. (Photo: Pete Souza) Americans will get the answers they deserve to questions surrounding the Benghazi terrorist attack through creation of a special committee empowered to dig deep into the subject, House Speaker John Boehner announced today. In a formal statement, Boehner said: The administration’s withholding of […]
Photo: Zhou Ke/Newscom With much faster growth rates between 2011 and 2014, China is now being forecast to eclipse the United States as the world’s largest economy sometime this year. The U.S. has been the world’s largest economy since the 1870s when it overtook Great Britain. Before the current revisions were released this week, it […]
Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call As has been widely reported, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said the following at a speech in Ohio last week when talking about his colleagues and why they didn’t want to move on immigration reform: “Here’s the attitude: ‘Ohhh, don’t make me do this. Ohhh, this is too hard.’” Boehner […]
