Guest Blog: Rep. Ed Royce on the Small Business Lending Fund
The Small Business Lending Fund was cleverly named by its authors last Congress. Since its implementation, however, it would appear a more appropriate name would be the Bailed Out Bank Refinancing Fund. When Barney Frank and other supporters proposed the SBLF, it was believed banks would leverage the fund leading to hundreds of billions in […]
‘Coming Storm’ Over Solyndra ‘And Other Inside DOE Deals’
New internal White House emails reveal that a scathing critique of Energy Secretary Steven Chu by a former Obama political advisor was widely circulated at the highest levels of the administration. The Feb. 25, 2011 email that sparked the deliberations landed on West Wing desks just as the solar energy firm Solyndra was starting to show outward signs of […]
Obama Considers Selling WMD Bombs to Muslims
Two years after Obama greeted the king of Saudi Arabia with a full bow from the waist the Obama administration may soon announce plans for a large sale of precision-guided bombs to the whabbist country of United Arab Emirates, according to US reports. Yet another sale to Muslims from the United States, Obama is considering […]
Marriage: Indiana’s No. 1 Weapon Against Childhood Poverty
Children in Indiana born to single parents are more than six times more likely to live in poverty than children born to married parents. In fact, nearly three-quarters of all poor families in the state are headed by single parents. According to a new Heritage report, the breakdown of marriage in Indiana is a major […]
Hold Pakistan Accountable in Afghanistan
With the 2014 Afghan troop withdrawal quickly approaching, a recent House Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia hearing stressed the need to press Pakistan to fight terrorists who find sanctuary on its soil. In this most recent hearing, the four witnesses, including former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalizad, presented a united stance […]
Making Policy Research Accessible to Us All
With our freedoms under assault on so many fronts—at the Supreme Court, in Congress, in the Executive Branch, and at the state level—how can Americans stay up-to-speed on current public policy concerns? To better provide the news and analysis you need, in the format you want, this week Heritage has given our website a major overhaul. Now all ten landing pages in Heritage’s […]
Poll: Americans Prefer Netanyahu to Obama
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is enjoying more popularity in the United States than President Barack Obama, a new poll indicates. The results of the poll, which was conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, were published on Thursday by Israel’s Channel 10 News. It involved 800 U.S. citizens who were asked to answer several questions related […]
Panetta: Strike on Iran Could Have Unintended Consequences
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Thursday that military action against Iran could have unintended consequences, The Associated Press reported. Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, Panetta said he agrees with earlier assessments that a strike would only set Iran’s nuclear program back by three years at most. “You’ve got to be careful of […]
Boehner Blasts Obama’s Russian “Reset” Policy
How’s that Russia “reset” going? Not so well, as the news this week shows. In addition to blocking tougher sanctions on Iran for its illicit nuclear weapons activities after a damaging report by the U.N.’s watchdog, Russia is “studying” building more reactors at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant. Recently, Speaker of the House John Boehner […]
Obama Appeared and Marched With Racist Black Panther Party
Photographs recently obtained reveal that Barack Obama appeared and marched with members of the racist organization the New Black Panther Party as he campaigned for president in Selma, Alabama in March 2007. The photographs, captured from a Flickr photo-sharing account before it was scrubbed by the posters, are the latest evidence of the mainstream media’s […]
The Islamist Jihad On Europe
By Peter Paton Europe today is tottering under a barbaric and savage Medieval Jihad War which is being waged by Radical Islamists who are hell bent on destroying Western Civilization and imposing a Global Islamic Caliphate on us all.The stark reality of Europe’s economic collapse and the imminent downfall of the Euro Zone and the […]
