VIDEO: Senator Tom Coburn on the “Debt Bomb”

“The problem isn’t that we haven’t agreed, the problem is that we’ve agreed way to much,” explained Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) in a recent interview with The Heritage Foundation. “Otherwise we wouldn’t have trillion dollar deficits, $16 trillion in debt, and unfunded liabilities of $113-131 trillion.” Senator Coburn visited The Heritage Foundation this week to […]

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Baghdad Nuclear Talks

Iran Declares ‘Impasse’ in Nuclear Talks

Iran on Thursday rejected the proposal from the P5+1 in talks over its controversial nuclear program. Tehran and the P5+1 – the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany – were in the second day of talks in Baghdad seeking to resolve international concerns over Iran’s nuclear program. The P5+1 plan reportedly […]

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U.N. World Tourism Organization: Confirming Embarrassing U.N. Clichés

Robert Mugabe The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), created in 1970 and based in Madrid, identifies itself as the “United Nations agency responsible for the promotion of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism.” It announced last year that Zambia and Zimbabwe jointly “won the bid” to host the 20th session of the UNWTO General […]

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American Restoration: The Role of Private Equity

Making something busted luster again. That’s the basic premise of an innovative television show called American Restoration featured on the History Channel. On the show, people bring their worn, rusted, creaky old stuff from America’s past—stuff like an old Dodge pickup truck, an old Chicago police phone box, or an old slot machine, to Rick […]

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Heritage Interns Bring Conservative Principles to Life: Jesse M. Crosson on Entrepreneurship

Each semester, we bring together more than 60 young leaders from across the country to participate in our internship program in DC. They are given the opportunity of practical experience working on policy research, marketing, and business, to training on marketing, blogging, and public speaking.  Combine trips to the Pentagon, National Archives, and Mount Vernon with […]

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