Economic Freedom: Key to the 50 States’ Economic Recovery

Economic freedom, enhanced by limited government, is critical to economic dynamism and job creation, as documented in the Index of Economic Freedom, an annual cross-country policy analysis by The Heritage Foundation. The individual economies of our 50 states are no exception to that. The strongly positive linkage between economic freedom and economic dynamism holds true […]

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Europe Must Heed Defense Secretary Gates’ Warning on the Future of NATO

In his farewell address in Brussels, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates delivered a blunt warning to America’s European allies: there is the real possibility of “a dim, if not dismal future for the transatlantic alliance” unless NATO member states undertake a firm commitment to increase defence spending and make a bigger commitment to NATO operations. As […]

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Protect and Defend the U.S. Missile Defense

“The Obama administration continues to demonstrate its penchant for bargaining away missile defense,” write James Woolsey, chairman of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a former director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, and Rebeccah Heinrichs, an adjunct fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a former manager of the Congressional Missile […]

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More Denial & Lies from Palestinian Authority: “If I Forget Thee, Oh Jerusalem” First Said by Crusader (Video)

Continuing its policy of denying Jerusalem’s Jewish heritage the Palestinian Authority publicized the claims of an Arab researcher that the well-known ancient Hebrew psalm, “If I forget three, Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill,” is not Jewish at all, the Israeli research institute Palestininian Media Watch reports. [youtube jBlj2YMRtuQ nolink] Instead, Dr. Hayel Sanduqa insists the […]

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Youth Camps to Avoid this Summer: Hamas Summer Camps Train Next Generation of Terrorists

Hamas is reporting record turnouts for its summer camps for children in 2011. The ‘summer camps,’ combining Islamic indoctrination, paramilitary training, and social activities are set to begin again this year as United Nation’s summer camps, considered competition by Hamas, are being openly denigrated by jihadists. Children and adolescents are an important target demographic for […]

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White House Invites Gabonese Tyrant into the Oval Office

President Obama has kept at least one campaign promise: agreeing to meet with nefarious world leaders. Yesterday, President Ali Bongo Ondimba from Gabon added his name to the guest book at the White House. As director of Heritage’s Margaret Thatcher Center, Nile Gardiner, states, “In yet another display of extraordinarily bad judgment, the Obama Administration […]

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