Chart of the Week: Tax Revenues Devoured by Entitlements

The looming unsustainability of the big three entitlement spending programs—Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security—is not inevitable, but in order to avoid the catastrophic effects of consuming every bit of tax revenue in just one generation, reform is a necessity. Take a look at Medicare, the largest portion of the projected entitlement expense by the year […]

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HHS Mandate “Serious” Threat to Religious Liberty (VIDEO)

Are the concerns of religious employers about a mandate from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) simply a matter of getting “all worked up over nothing,” a new video asks, as the Obama Administration suggests? John Stonestreet, national director of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, puts the question to Jennifer Marshall, Heritage’s […]

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Heritage Intern Wins CNN Competition to Report on Convention

Next week, Alex Anderson, who interned with Heritage’s Young Leaders Program this summer, will be joining two other CNN iReporters for an all-expenses-paid trip to Tampa, Florida, to cover the Republican National Convention. Anderson, who is a rising junior at Hillsdale College in broadcast journalism, was the only college student chosen to cover the RNC. […]

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CBO Appears Immune to Embarrassment

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its latest concocted quarterly estimate on President Obama’s failed stimulus. CBO’s findings are as preposterous as its 11 previous studies of the stimulus, discussed here, here, and here. The story doesn’t change, because CBO’s faulty analysis doesn’t change. Each time CBO does an estimate, it is begging the […]

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Wait Out the War in Syria

by Daniel Pipes The Washington Times August 21, 2012 WT title: “Stay Out of Syria: Intervention Is a Trap” Bashar al-Assad’s wretched presence in the Presidential Palace of Damascus may, contrary to Western assumptions, do more good than harm. His murderous, terroristic, and pro-Tehran regime is also non-ideological and relatively secular; it staves off anarchy, […]

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Australia’s ‘Cynical’ Morality Shelters Nazis

Nazi and other war criminals have been allowed to live comfortably in Australia due to “fickle and cynical” government morality, a Jewish community leader alleged, according to the The Sydney Morning Herald. “There has been a gross distortion of decency, allowing fugitives to take the places of refugees,” Jeremy Jones, director of international affairs for […]

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Israel Objects to Egypt’s Sinai Military Buildup Since It’s a Violation of Treaty

Israel Objects to Egypt’s Sinai Military Buildup August 21, 2012 13:40 by Pesach Benson Everything you need to know about today’s coverage of Israel and the Mideast. Join the Israel Daily News Stream on Facebook. Today’s Top Stories: 1. After Reuters reported that Egypt planned to send tanks and aircraft into the Sinai to fight jihadis, […]

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