In an exclusive interview with The Foundry, Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-La.) said he’s open to running for president in 2016, but he first wants conservatives to win the war of ideas and win at the ballot box this year. The Foundry’s Genevieve Wood sat down with Jindal at The Heritage Foundation’s Resource Bank meeting in […]
(CNSNews.com) – House Speaker John Boehner will not be attending aweekend retreat hosted byThe Republican Mainstreet Partnership PAC— whose goal is to elect moderate GOP candidates and protect Republican incumbents from Tea Party challengers — because of a scheduling conflict, a GOP aide told CNSNews.com. But Boehner’s top two lieutenants, Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) […]
Yesterday, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 4302, a bill preventing a 24 percent cut in what physicians are paid under Medicare for 12 months. It’s the annual “doc fix” dance. On the bill’s merits, Heritage health scholar Robert Moffit gave careful review of the legislation yesterday. Essentially, The Heritage Foundation would give the legislation […]
NEW ORLEANS — Under the direction of Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal, Louisiana has enacted reforms to education, ethics, health care and taxes, generating buzz about Jindal’s future and making Louisiana a case study in policy solutions. Tonight, Jindal will deliver the keynote address at The Heritage Foundation’s 37th annual Resource Bank, taking place in the […]
Photo: Sean Gardner/Getty Images As the date for the oral arguments in the Supreme Court case over the Health and Human Services mandate nears, Newt Gingrich is concerned that Americans could be on the cusp of a significant loss of religious liberty. “I think we’re in grave danger of losing our liberty and losing our […]
(CNSNews.com) – Senator Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), a potential presidential contender in 2016, said the Republican Party needs a “big tent” that embraces centuries-old “American values” to succeed, adding that the GOP “should continue to defend life and that we should continue to defend traditional marriage.” Cruz made his remarks during a Mar. 18 interview with […]
Senator Rand Paul (Credit: Benjamin Myers) For the second year in a row, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) won the straw poll of attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Paul secured 31 percent of the vote. “The fight for liberty continues, and we must continue to stand up and say: We’re free and no one, […]
Media distortions and “lies” clouded public understanding of an Arizona measure that would have clarified religious liberty protections for business owners, not allowed them to discriminate rampantly against gays and lesbians, The Heritage Foundation’s Ryan T. Anderson told The Foundry in an interview yesterday. “For about two weeks you got a nonstop barrage of lies […]
Spencer Platt/Getty Images Apparently newly elected New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio didn’t get the memo from President Obama today about being your Brother’s Keeper. De Blasio is blocking four charter schools – run by the Success Academy charter school network – from opening or expanding, rolling back an offer made to the charter […]
REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton The Justice Department’s choice of one of President Obama’s campaign donors to investigate improper targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service throws the fairness and independence of that probe into question, a Heritage Foundation legal analyst testified today before a House subcommittee. That designated investigator, Barbara Kay Bosserman of Justice’s Civil […]
