Today is a pivotal day in the immigration debate: House Republicans are meeting to hash out their path. Pressure is coming from all sides. The Senate passed the Gang of Eight’s “comprehensive” plan, and three groups on the right are urging the House to act. President Obama is meeting today with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. […]
Each time we get news from Pravda through Mr. Xavier Lerma, it comes as no surprise that Russia is now leading the world in laughing at the United States and the very weak “leaders” we now have! Russia has all but called Barack Obama a phony and a liar, but some of the people in […]
Newscom As a statesman, an author, and a friend of the United States, Winston Churchill was regularly called upon to offer his sentiments on the meaning of the Fourth of July. In his remarks over the years, as Lewis E. Lehrman points out, he emphasized a similar theme: Though the Declaration of Independence signaled the […]
Today marks the anniversary of the first published post of The Conservative Papers appearing on the web. On July 7, 2009, The Conservative Papers came to fruition. With over 6,500 posts along with a growing library of content, we are slowly expanding our presence on the Internet and social networks. We originally created this website […]
Freedom’s future can turn on the actions of one. One hundred and fifty years ago, the fate of America was decided at Gettysburg. For three days, Union and Confederate armies fought the decisive battle of the Civil War. On the second day of the struggle, General Robert E. Lee ordered his troops to sweep behind […]
The liberal media and President Obama tout Abraham Lincoln as an icon for their progressive agenda, but Rich Lowry, editor of National Review, believes otherwise. Lowry sat down with Heritage to talk about his new book, Lincoln Unbound, and explained why he thinks Lincoln’s life exemplifies conservative principles. “If you just take what he believed and what he said […]
Hollingsworth v. Perry Plaintiffs Kris Perry and Sandy Stier (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom) On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in Hollingsworth v. Perry, finding that the official proponents of California’s Proposition 8 (which defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman) lacked standing to defend the law in court. Throwing […]
Morning Glories (CHRISTINE DeLESSIO KRT/Newscom) “It’s sort of beyond the scope of what you would imagine some private citizen would do,” said Washington, D.C., Metro spokesman Dan Stessel of Henry Docter’s activities. Indeed. It’s not often that a husband, father of two, part-time lawyer, children’s book author, and collage artist finds time to plant flowers […]
Late this afternoon, a federal court granted a major victory to the Green family and Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., issuing the company a temporary restraining order to the coercive Obamacare mandate that requires employers to provide coverage of abortion-inducing drugs. The ruling comes just one day after a lengthy opinion of the full U.S. Court […]
Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint will appear on NBC’s “Meet the Press” this Sunday, June 30, at 9:00 a.m. He will discuss the immigration reform bill that passed the Senate on Thursday, the negative effects it would have on the American people, and alternatives Congress could take. Senator DeMint will also examine the recent Supreme […]
