Snowden Asylum Request: Another Blow to Obama’s Russia “Reset” Policy

Guardian/Glenn Greenwald/Laura Poitras/EPA/Newscom Last Sunday, a Russian consular official confirmed that former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden asked for political asylum in Russia. Snowden’s defection, announced after a week in Moscow, may be not an impulsive act but a thoroughly pre-planned operation. The Interfax news agency cited Kim Shevchenko, duty officer at the […]

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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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