Author Archives: The Heritage Foundation
Level Playing Field For the Republican Plan? Fuhgeddaboudit!
Liberals in Congress say they want a public plan to compete against private health insurance in order to give Americans more choice and competition. Ponder that. The reason that argument is so puzzling is that it is routinely made by Congressmen who have been stalwart champions of a single payer system of national health insurance. Single-payer means just that. Government monopoly. No competition. Continue reading
Town Hall Showdowns
President Obama publicly delivered a message to those who oppose his plan. At a Virginia campaign rally on Thursday, he pronounced, “I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them just to get out of the way.” In other words: “Unless you agree with me, shut up.” Continue reading
Associated Press outsourcing to Leftist nonprofits is a bad idea
Never accuse the Associated Press of being hidebound by journalistic tradition. In a sharp break with past practice, the once-venerable news service is providing its 1,500 member papers with ready-to-run stories produced by “independent” reporters and editors. Continue reading
You're (Probably) a Federal Criminal
Federal law now criminalizes activities that the average person would never dream would land him in prison. Consequently, every year, thousands of upstanding, responsible Americans run afoul of some incomprehensible federal law and end up serving time in federal prison. What is especially disturbing is that it could happen to anyone at all–and it has. Continue reading
O's foreign failures: bad guys refuse to be charmed
Most Americans have noticed that President Obama’s economic policies aren’t getting the job done. Fewer, however, realize that the administration’s foreign policies are flagging after just six months in the White House, too. Continue reading
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Sotomayor and the Sordid Business of Race
Technicalities aside, the plain fact remains that President Obama’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, approved outright racial discrimination carried out by a petty local politician who didn’t want to upset a “politically important racial constituency” led by a man forced to resign for making ethnic slurs in the course of advocating discriminatory hiring practices, and convicted for perjury and stealing funeral money from the elderly. Continue reading
