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‘At the Heart of Our Common Defense’

Heritage constitutional scholar Matthew Spalding has quite a few things to say about Americans’ love of liberty in his book,  “We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Recaliming Our Future.” Some of the passages stand out all the more ...

From KEN MCINTYRE, The Heritage Foundation,  12 Nov 2009

‘We Still Hold These Truths,’ Post-Election Edition

Do Americans have a right to government-run health care? Is it “the consent of the governed” to be forced to obey the dictates of unelected bureaucrats? Does religious liberty allow our government to impose a secular culture? These are among great ...

From KEN MCINTYRE, The Heritage Foundation,  3 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Heritage Foundation,  Ronald Reagan

Haunting ‘Gulag Collection’ Records Soviets’ Inhumanity

Gulag survivor Nikolai Getman created “The Gulag Collection,” an unparalleled visual record of the hundreds of penal camps that held more than 14 million political prisoners — many of whom died in captivity or shortly after release. Getman began ...

From KEN MCINTYRE, The Heritage Foundation,  29 Sep 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Senate

Oops, Bush Did It Again

Poor Dubya. Not even the 43rd president’s exercise regimen — biking and running in addition to hitting the White House gym — is safe from No. 44’s criticism. Joe Curl wrote  in The Washington Times the other day how President Obama and congressional ...

From KEN MCINTYRE, The Heritage Foundation,  24 Sep 2009
Related Topics: George W. Bush,  Barack Obama,  White House,  Karl Rove

Who Wants Yesterday’s Papers?

A Senate bill to bail out America’s newspapers, after languishing all summer like so much fishwrap, gained street cred over the weekend when President Barack Obama said he’d “be happy” to consider the measure. The newspaper bailout bill introduced last ...

From KEN MCINTYRE, The Heritage Foundation,  22 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Senate,  Ben Cardin,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Barbara Mikulski

How the Constitution Makes News

When was the last time a journalist asked a question about federalism in a presidential debate? Answer: 1960. The American news media, much like American politicians, are less and less attuned to what the Constitution actually says and more and more ...

From KEN MCINTYRE, The Heritage Foundation,  17 Sep 2009

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 ...

From KEN MCINTYRE, The Heritage Foundation,  7 Aug 2009
Related Topics: George Soros,  American University,  Center for American Progress,  George W. Bush

Chart: How 5.4% Surtax Hits Small Business, State by State

Rep. Charlie Rangel of New York and other House Democrats propose to pay for their $1.3 trillion bill to create government-run health care with a 5.4 percent surtax on 2.04 million high-income Americans — about half of them small business owners. ...

From KEN MCINTYRE, The Heritage Foundation,  23 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Charlie Rangel,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama

Ring Those Bells, America

“The Declaration of Independence announced to the world the unanimous decision of the American colonies to declare themselves free and independent states, absolved from any allegiance to Great Britain. But its greater meaning—then as well as now—is as ...

From KEN MCINTYRE, The Heritage Foundation,  2 Jul 2009

On Indefensible Defense Cuts

Only politicians determined to spend $1 billion a day to “stimulate” the economy could balk at committing tens of millions less than that to bolster our national defense. So it was good news this evening when the Senate Armed Services Committee added ...

From KEN MCINTYRE, The Heritage Foundation,  25 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Senate,  Robert Gates,  White House,  Saxby Chambliss

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