Thursday, April 22, 2010 By Matt Cover, Staff Writer House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (CNSNews.com) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called a Capitol Hill press conference Wednesday to unveil new light fixtures in the House cafeteria. The light fixtures cost $140,000 and will take almost 10 years to pay off in saved energy. […]
Posted by Erick Erickson “[T]he Heritage Foundation [is] now a very dangerous beast.” Behind the subscriber firewall at the Wall Street Journal, Ed Feulner and Michael Needham just launched a major assault against the left that has many on the left soiling their collectivist selves today. The sleeping giant that is the Heritage Foundation has […]
Commentary by Steve Rothman April 7 (Bloomberg) — The argument that American military aid to Israel is damaging to the U.S. is not only erroneous, it hurts the national security interests of this country and threatens the survival of Israel. U.S. support for Israel is essential, not only for Israel’s national security, but for America’s. […]
By Charlie Reese Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits? Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we […]
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The Fed’s Last Hurrah By Peter Schiff During the 1990s, inflationary Federal Reserve policy fueled a tech stock bubble. When that bubble burst, the Fed inflated a larger one in real estate. Now that the real estate bubble has burst, the Fed is inflating the biggest bubble of them all – a bubble in government. […]
Would President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency really force Americans to pay a tax on “rainwater runoff” from homes and small businesses? You bet they would. In fact, the EPA, under radical environmentalist Lisa Jackson, is proposing regulations to do just that. Take a look at the EPA’s own Federal Register filing, where the EPA generally describes the initiative it’s […]
Banks. Auto companies. Health care. What will Washington take over next? The Internet, if they can get away with it. In fact, extreme left-wing ideologues and their allies at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are now considering a direct frontal assault on the Internet, reclassifying it as an old-fashioned regulated monopoly, like the Ma Bell-era […]
March 30, 2010 | By Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D. President Obama this morning cited The Heritage Foundation’s research in an attempt to sell his health care package as a “middle of the road, centrist approach.” We take great exception to this misuse of our work and abuse of our name. This is but the latest act in […]
Posted by Erick Erickson Last night Mitch McConnell said the mantra for the GOP in 2010 would be “repeal and replace.” There is a problem with this mantra — some in the Republican caucus actually mean they just want to redo what has been done and substitute some portions. Others want to repeal the whole […]
