President Obama’s health care law will force over 7 million people out of their job-based insurance coverage, nearly twice the previous estimate, according to the latest estimates from the Congressional Budget Office released Tuesday. CBO said that this year’s tax cuts have changed the incentives for businesses and made it less attractive to pay for […]
Israel’s Education Ministry has rejected the findings of a study funded by the U.S. State Department that determined that Palestinian textbooks rarely demonize Israel or incite hatred against the Jewish people and that both sides use the texts to present children and students with a one-sided view of their conflict. “Dehumanizing and demonizing characterizations of […]
Photo credit: Chris Maddaloni/CQ Roll Call/Newscom Fiscal cliffs, debt, and unbalanced budgets have made raising a family in America more difficult, but pursing opportunity-oriented policies centered on creating prosperity can turn uncertainty and struggle into hope again. That was the message House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) delivered in a speech at the American Enterprise […]
(CNSNews.com) – The State Department took two dramatically different approaches to dealing with the identities of the Diplomatic Security (DS) agents it sent to Benghazi, Libya, to protect Amb. Chris Stevens and the small number of other temporary U.S. diplomatic personnel the department rotated through what its own review board would later admit was a […]
Would you like a raise? For some workers, cronyism prevents receiving raises in pay. In early 2011, a Giant Eagle supermarket in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, wanted to give wage increases and higher starting wages to 25 employees. But a union wouldn’t let it do so. Why would a union object to workers receiving higher wages? Because […]
Senator Rand Paul (R–KY) will deliver remarks Wednesday at The Heritage Foundation laying out his ideas for “Restoring the Founders’ Vision of Foreign Policy.” A major portion of that speech is likely to focus on how the U.S. should deal with the rise of Islamist political movements. [youtube fmZEdzqNbEE nolink] The Obama Administration’s response to […]
by Daniel Pipes February 3, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online The two-day old tenure of Secretary of State John Kerry got off to a flying start today with an astonishing statement from his ambassador to Egypt, Anne W. Patterson, at a joint ceremony in Cairo to mark the delivery of four American-made F-16 aircraft: […]
Many looked at the results on Election Day and saw disaster. At The Heritage Foundation, however, we see opportunity. Americans are asking: “What do conservatives stand for?” This is the opportunity to tell them. There are important lessons to be learned from the recent election and the current trends in American politics, for sure. But […]
The number of mosques in the United States increased by 74 percent in the past decade after the 9/11 Islamic terrorist attacks, according to a new study by a coalition of Islamic civic group. According to the “The American Mosque 2011” survey released Wednesday, there are now 2,106 Islamic centers across the country. That’s up […]
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu criticized the Syrian government over the weekend, for failing to respond to an alleged attack by Israel inside Syria earlier this week, the Turkish daily Hurriyet reports. Davutoglu claimed that the Syrian stance raises suspicions that there is a secret deal between the two countries. “Why has the Syrian army, […]
