Heritage Foundation

The Heritage Foundation is the nation’s most broadly supported public policy research institute, with more than 453,000 individual, foundation and corporate donors. Heritage, founded in February 1973, mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.

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America has achieved energy savings as a result of the free market—and the free market is fueled by consumer choice

Higher taxes aren’t the right direction; cutting spending is.

An Economy in Panic July 8, 2011
The American people have President Obama’s big-spending economic policies to thank for slowing the pace of recovery.

Spending is the problem; low revenue is not.

In reality, the White House is probably better off fighting over those numbers than over the unemployment statistics staring the President in the face.

Coincidentally or conveniently, (pick your adverb), ICE’s prosecutorial discretion leads it to adopt enforcement parameters that bring about the same ends as the DREAM Act

Passage of the Declaration of Independence

The President is well advised to stop feeding the regulatory beast.

All 47 Republican Senators have co-sponsored a balanced budget proposal in the Senate.

Instead of squandering the battlefield gains the U.S. has made in Afghanistan over the last 10 months, President Obama should follow the advice of his military leaders

The President’s own Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that U.S. production in the Gulf has declined by 220,000 barrels a day since Obama’s moratorium (which still persists) began.

The President is patting himself on the back for a job well done, even though the job is not finished.

The Truth About Tax Cuts June 22, 2011
Bereft of any other apparent principle, the liberal canon now includes one and only one organizing idea: government cannot be cut; it can only grow or stay at its current gargantuan size.

The expanded version of the Heritage Budget Chart Book contains 42 graphics that portray Washington’s unprecedented levels of spending, deficits and debt.

Unfortunately, as Father’s Day 2011 approaches, it is a harsh fact that more children today are being raised without their fathers as the number of unwed births in the U.S. is at its all-time high

For a short time they were successful; a county judge blocked the law purely on a political basis. On Tuesday, the state’s supreme court overruled that decision, allowing the law to take effect.

If you apply simple logic, if the economy had turned the corner, the President wouldn’t need to tour the country to convince America that down is up, night is day, and that he’s doing a great job getting people back to work.

It’s not the first time a member of the Obama Administration has skimmed over the issue, and it starts at the very top.

Essentially, employers are being forced to drop their coverage in order to remain profitable.

Defending Defense has issued the following 10 questions for Panetta that go to the heart of how he would address defense spending and the state of the U.S. military.

It looks like even if Americans are hearing President Obama’s message, they’re not buying it.

Chrysler and General Motors are where they’re at today because of a bankruptcy process, not because of a costly bailout that could set a dangerous precedent down the road.

All Eyes Are Now on the Obama Administration

Obamacare being on the President’s desk in time for Thansgiving with minimal participation of the American public.

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Senator James Inhofe

President Obama could talk around the issues raised about his proposal rather than really answering them

It was naive to ever pretend that Iran, a theocratic dictatorship, was ever a true democracy.

Fundamental health care reform, high costs, new taxes, Unprecedented Intrusion