Able-Bodied People Defrauding Social Security Disability Program
After shimmying up trees and doing away with storm debris, the obviously able-bodied tree trimmer asked his customer, “Could you make the check out to my mom? I’m on disability.” Inconveniently for...
View ArticleObama’s Hijacking the American Dream
President Obama last night continued his hijacking of the American Dream. Using language long accepted as part of the American tradition, he struck a pose as a defender of hard work, responsibility,...
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Corruption Victimizes the Poor in the Americas
Photo credit: Newscom The recently launched “Americas Barometer,” by Vanderbilt University’s Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP), includes important insights about day-to-day corruption...
View ArticleLarry Arnn: Reclaim First Principles
Americans must choose whether they will continue to allow government to erode liberty, or reclaim the first principles that have made America great. Heritage’s longtime president, Ed Feulner, who...
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Morning Bell: Standing with Boston
Keiko Hiromi/Polaris/Newscom America is at its best when it faces adversity with courage, confidence, and determination. That recipe of “what makes us who we are” holds for hurricanes, disasters, and...
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Security and Liberty: How to Maximize Both
Keiko Hiromi/Polaris/Newscom The horrific terrorist attack in Boston this week, and the ensuing investigation to find the person or persons responsible, once again highlight the age-old question: How...
View ArticleMorning Bell: Immigration Reform Should Strengthen, Not Cost, America
Lawful immigration can bring important economic and cultural benefits both to the United States and to the immigrants. Americans rightly live and celebrate the values of America, including limited...
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Ayotte on America’s Tragic Lack of Purpose in the World
Benjamin Myers Photography At a time when Washington has almost nothing to say about national defense, Senator Kelly Ayotte (R–NH) recently delivered a major address on America’s state in the world....
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Pelosi: July 4 Is Health Independence Day
As Americans celebrate a long holiday weekend, we should take at least a moment to ponder the idea, advanced recently by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D–CA), that Obamacare “captures the spirit...
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Morning Bell: Gettysburg and the Future of Freedom
Freedom’s future can turn on the actions of one. One hundred and fifty years ago, the fate of America was decided at Gettysburg. For three days, Union and Confederate armies fought the decisive battle...
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Farm Bill: You’ll Never Believe Where the House Wants to Spend Your Tax Dollars
The House split up farm-related programs and food stamps, but they didn’t make a single reform to farm programs — and House leadership is hoping America doesn’t notice. The text of the farm-only bill...
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Bunny Disaster Plans: Unveiling the Magic Behind Regulations
Photo courtesy of Marty Hahne Cartoon star Bullwinkle the Moose had a running gag in which he tried to pull a rabbit out of a hat and ended up facing a tiger, rhino, lion, or a bear. It’s a good thing...
View ArticleU.S. International Broadcasting Finally Accessible for Americans
This month, Americans finally got the opportunity to watch and listen to news programming that the U.S. government has been broadcasting to the rest of the world for decades. This is a good thing....
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Why Is This Immigrant So Fired Up Against Amnesty?
Virginia Prodan and her Southern Methodist University Law School Dean at Prodan’s graduation from SMU LawSchool. The school surprised Prodan with the Romanian flag. It was 1988. Virginia Prodan had no...
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America Needs a New Balanced Tariff Structure
Rich Graessle/Icon SMI CGV/Rich Graessle/Icon SMI/Newscom Where does America get its shoes? Today, 99 percent of shoes sold in America come from overseas. Imported shoes are taxed at an average rate of...
View ArticleDreaming of Equality of Opportunity, Not Outcome
In the United States, dreams have a funny way of becoming reality. That’s what makes the American dream so powerful. It’s renewed, and usually achieved, in each new generation. It’s been more than 50...
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Morning Bell: Is America Still the Land of Labor?
For all the talk these days of how to revive our supposedly moribund American Dream, it took a college dropout-turned-actor to state the obvious. “I believe that opportunity looks a lot like work,”...
View ArticlePutin and Obama: Taking Exception on American Exceptionalism
It’s good that Russian President Vladimir Putin and American President Barack Obama have found something they can agree on. Unfortunately, they’re both wrong. Neither Putin nor Obama thinks the United...
View ArticleDeMint: Washington’s Control Creates Division Among Americans
Freedom means that people should be able to make their own decisions, but that freedom is not achievable when government forces values upon its people, said Heritage President Jim DeMint at the Values...
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Q&A: Can America “Rebound” from Its Current State?
Every day, we hear more cultural commentators noting the inevitable decline of America. Many on the right lament it, while the left eagerly anticipates “the post-American world.” Kim Holmes has spent...
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