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Obamacare Quiz for Employers 27 Aug 2013 | 03:50 pm
If you work somewhere, Obamacare is most likely affecting your employer—and you. In a new paper, Heritage’s Alyene Senger explains how “Obamacare will impose new health coverage costs, the employer m...
Reporters Should Get Their “PolitiFacts” Straight on Obamacare 27 Aug 2013 | 02:35 am
Does calling a reporter a “fact checker” make him or her more even-handed? Hardly. PolitiFact is a case in point. It is a website of the Tampa Bay Times, manned by journalists and editors. It purport...
D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program Celebrates 10 Years and Its Students’ Accomplishments 26 Aug 2013 | 07:25 pm
Now entering its 10th year, the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), which provides vouchers to students from low-income families to attend a private school of their choice, has given access to...
Morning Bell: Should We Delay or Defund Obamacare? 26 Aug 2013 | 03:50 pm
Conservatives are united in one idea: Obamacare is devastating policy for America. To halt its destructive effects, some are saying Congress should merely delay the law. But to truly stop it, Obamacar...
Top 5 Reasons Not to Use Missile Strikes in Syria 25 Aug 2013 | 11:51 pm
There are press reports that the White House is considering missile strikes on the Assad regime in Syria to punish it for the use of chemical weapons. That is a bad idea for five reasons. 1. The Resp...
How to Win the Internet: Sharing Stories — and Maybe a Few Cats 24 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Cat pictures go viral because that is the language of the Internet, according to the four creative content producers who were panelists at this week’s Heritage Foundation Bloggers Briefing. But how d...
Hasan Verdict: The Threat of Homegrown Terrorism Continues 24 Aug 2013 | 03:01 am
Major Nidal Malik Hasan (Uniformed Services University o/ZUMA Press/Newscom) Today, a jury of 13 military officers found Major Nidal Malik Hasan guilty for his shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas ...
Hard Time for Chalk Crime 24 Aug 2013 | 12:30 am
ROBIN TINAY SALLIE/KRT/Newscom It may or may not be true that, as some seem to believe, not a single cop in the history of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) has been criminally “char...
The Most Effective Obamacare Delay Is Full Defunding 23 Aug 2013 | 11:35 pm
There is nothing controversial about stopping Obamacare. A majority of Americans dislike the law and want it repealed. Obamacare is disastrous for individuals, businesses, and doctors alike. It is una...
Ghosts of Obama’s Failed Iraq Policy Continue to Haunt 23 Aug 2013 | 09:05 pm
While the world’s attention has been focused on violent clashes in Egypt and reports of chemical weapons use in Syria, Iraq has been sliding back to the brink of civil war. Sectarian violence in the ...