Is the Supreme Court the Final Word?

WDCPIX.COM/Lauren Victoria Burke Supreme Court decisions are crucial, but they are not the final word. It’s our duty as American citizens to keep pushing back, through all three branches of government, against any proposal that violates the Constitution. That’s the way to make sure our union can endure for another 225 years. Recently, the country […]

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Was Abraham Lincoln Conservative? Rich Lowry Thinks So (VIDEO)

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 […]

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Planting Trees (illustrative)

D.C. Metro to “Phantom Planter”: Stop Planting Flowers, Or Else!

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 […]

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Four Immigration Reform Quotes You Don’t Want to Miss (and a Cool Video)

U.S. House conservatives came together this week to address key issues at the monthly Conversations with Conservatives briefing on Capitol Hill. With the Senate taking action on the Gang of Eight’s amnesty bill, House members faced questions about their take on immigration reform. We made a short video with the highlights. Here are a few […]

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Supreme Court Orders a Divorce: Law from Morality

The underlying question before the Supreme Court in United States v. Windsor–which challenged the federal Defense of Marriage Act–was: Does the Constitution forbid the U.S. Congress from defining the words “marriage” and “spouse” as they have always been defined in the English language? And that leads unavoidably to a deeper question: Can American law be […]

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Syrian rebels are zeroing in on Assad

Syria: Would the U.N. ATT Ban U.S. Aid to the Terrorist Rebels?

Newscom Proponents of the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) assert that the treaty prevents signatories from supporting not only the Syrian opposition but future rebellions against other totalitarian regimes. The Geneva Academy argues that the transfer of arms to a non-state actor “could amount to a violation” of the treaty. At Oxford University, Stuart Casey-Maslen […]

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Has Obama’s turning point arrived?

There is a turning point in every presidency that people point back to and say, you know, nothing was ever the same after that. Sometimes it is the point where presidents go on to greatness. Sometimes, it is when a presidency unravels. For Jimmy Carter, it was when a group of students seized the American […]

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