Trade Agreements Can Advance Economic Freedom

Kenichiro Seki/ZUMA Press/Newscom The United States is currently engaged in Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations designed to reduce barriers to international trade and investment. The latest text from these negotiations shows how trade agreements, if properly designed and implemented, help advance economic freedom around the world. Among other things, the draft text calls for: No […]

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Energy Secretary Nominee Faces Tough Natural Gas Decision

Rick Friedman/Polaris/Newscom If confirmed as the next Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary, Dr. Ernest Moniz will take over an agency that has increasingly injected itself into making investment decisions with taxpayer money that would be more efficiently made by the private sector. The Heritage Foundation disagrees with many of the policy recommendations Dr. Moniz has […]

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New GAO Report on Weapons Acquisitions Fundamentally Skewed

Newscom On March 28, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its annual assessment of the performance of the Department of Defense (DOD) in purchasing specific new weapons in a cost-efficient manner and reducing the overall cost to the taxpayers of a wide variety of weapons purchases. This year’s assessment was generally more positive regarding the […]

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Defeat Homofascism

Hunt for the word “homophobia” – purportedly a fear of homosexuality – and Merriam-Webster, the ADL, Wikipedia, Oxford Dictionary, The Free Dictionary, the Reference Dictionary and others are ready to provide help. But look for “homofascism” – the use of homosexuality to bludgeon and batter the religious rights of Christians and others – and the […]

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Larry Arnn: Reclaim First Principles

Americans must choose whether they will continue to allow government to erode liberty, or reclaim the first principles that have made America great. Heritage’s longtime president, Ed Feulner, who retired this week, succeeded in leaving the nation a legacy of arming citizens to defend those principles. Now, Americans must renew their defense of liberty. That’s […]

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Who Is Kim Jong-un? (VIDEO)

No one really knows what North Korea’s leader is thinking. Heritage’s Bruce Klingner, senior research fellow in the Asian Studies Center, was interviewed on ABC’s World News about Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s mysterious dictator. “Very little is known about someone whose finger is on a nuclear button,” said Klingner, former head of the CIA’s Korea […]

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Court of Appeals to Lawyers: Truth Matters – And We Mean It

Walter Choroszewski Stock Connection Worldwide/Newscom The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently sent a strong message to lawyers: Do your homework before you make assertions in court, or the court may impose sanctions against you. The court’s action should make less-than-careful lawyers think twice before they make unsupported securities fraud claims in […]

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