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Should Cheerios be regulated as a drug? That’s what the FDA suggested last month in a letter to the breakfast cereal’s maker, General Mills...
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There has been a lot of change in recent months – a $787 billion spending bill, a budget exceeding $3 trillion, government ownership of auto manufacturers, government-imposed caps on earnings, legislation imposing limits on economic activity in America under the name of environmental justice...
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The Heritage Foundation is proud to announce that the FCC is the recipient of the First Annual Wanton Abuse of State-funded Technological Elucidation (WASTE) Award. Yes, the name is clunky but so is their website. If you don’t believe it, see for yourself...
Ross
Ross
had me at .gov.... *lol*
Sara
Sara
Anything the government touches leads to waste!
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Click here to view the embedded video. During yesterday’s White House press briefing, reporters grilled spokesman Robert Gibbs on the growing trend of staged theatrics used by President Obama...
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Yesterday, President Obama held a town hall eventin order to “sell his health care message to the public” during Congress’ July 4th recess...
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In January President Obama pressed for an $800 billion economic “stimulus” package to turn the economy around. Though the bill largely consisted of increased spending on traditional liberal priorities the President claimed that it would “create or save” 3.5 million jobs...
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The Heritage Foundation Quote of the Day: "If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions." ~ Calvin Coolidge

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Though the President made a big deal about Father’s Day, on national security issues the White House continues to look like an absent father. What can we expect from the White House on Independence Day? On issue after issue Obama appears ambivalent or just flat wrong...
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Following up on his infomercial last week — courtesy of ABC News’ “Questions for the President: Prescription for America” special — that was meant to be a town hall discussion for doctors, patients and health care experts to bring the tough questions, President Barack Obama is holding...
Lori
Lori
We have the best health care in the world. Yes, I'll agree it's not perfect, but needs to be tweaked, not redone!!! But since this administration doesn't know the term "tweaked", they need to just leave it alone!
Richard
Richard
"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
Ronald Reagan
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Yesterday, state lawmakers in Indiana passed a scholarship tax credit program—making the Hoosier state the latest to offer private school choice...
Lon
Lon
We need to institute more choice within the public school system also. When parents can send their kids to any of the school system's elementary schools ALL of them will get better.
Laurie
Laurie
I hope there's no hidden "anti-religion" language that would bar them from helping Christian schools. Personally, I think the only school choice that makes sense in our increasingly anti-Christian nation is Home schooling unless you're dealing with a school and staff you know you can trust to do their best for their students.
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The Heritage Foundation Quote of the Day: "Let the Fourth of July always be a reminder that here in this land, for the first time, it was decided that man is born with certain God-given rights; that government is only a convenience created and managed by the people, with no powers of its own except those voluntarily granted to it by the people." ~ Ronald Reagan

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H-1B visas allow foreigners, who have an undergraduate degree or higher, to work in the United States. Currently only 65,000 visas can be issued each year; a number which is far too low...
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Not so quietly, a new conventional wisdom has taken hold in Britain: defense spending must be cut...
John
John
Find out where your local tea party is, show up and be heard, let your politicians know you are fed up, by politicians who merely try to bring the bacon home to their district, instead of trying to reduce the deficit for the benefit of the nation as a whole.
Jason
Jason
Britain is today what we will be in less than 20 years.
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President Obama recently urged for the creation of a two-state system to solve the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But is this a workable solution? Come share your opini...
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Moscow’s recent diplomatic demarches manifest the Kremlin’s drive to solidify its positions ahead of meeting with President Obama. Therefore, the Kremlin is trying to give the appearance of concessions on the issues that have long been a matter of concern for the American side...
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Yesterday’s Supreme Court opinion in Ricci, the New Haven firefighters case, provides a window to what will inevitably be a significant line of questioning in Judge Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings...
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The Heritage Foundation Quote of the Day: "Let us readopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it the practices and policy which harmonize with it." ~ Abraham Lincoln

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If one word can sum up the Obama Administration’s foreign policy, it’s “engagement.” From Cuba, to Iran and the Middle East, to Russia, engagement is the White House’s magic word, an incantation that it uses to justify everything it does...
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The chief complaint with Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s handling of Ricci, the New Haven firefighters case, is not that her court reached the wrong result but that it shirked its duty to give the case its full consideration, in an obvious attempt to bury it...
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Here’s today’s news from the Congressional Budget Office on the recently passed Waxman-Markey legislation: It’s a big tax and spend bill. For the years 2010-2019 the tax increase is $872.8 billion. Ka-ching...
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Barney Frank, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee has suggested that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the now bankrupt housing finance giants, should relax their lending standards. This suggestion is farcical...
Harry
Harry
A lot of idiot wealthy liberals live in his district. Their only concern in life is what party they will attend and where they will be seen.
Ann
Ann
Jimmie Young--I've been saying the EXACT same thing since January!!!
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Yesterday, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its latest Long-Term Budget Outlook and the news is grim...
Michael
Michael
Who frinkin cares about "next" what about now and the past 100 days.. enough is enough!!
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What are Iranians protesting? Many Iranians were outraged by the alleged landslide re-election victory of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...
James
James
BINGO Laurie! Someone else that remembers.
Laurie
Laurie
Has anyone heard from ACORN lately? Have they gotten back from Iran yet? When there are more votes than voters -- where have we heard this story before??? Sounds kinda familiar...
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The Heritage Foundation Quote of the Day: "It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free Government." ~ George Washington

Julie
Julie
The information Heritage provided about the businesses that will be impacted and jobs lost by the C/T bil is very useful and persuasive.l
Fred
Fred
...still substantially true...no longer substantially a reality.
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Later today, the House of Representatives is slated to vote on the most convoluted attempt at economic central-planning this nation has ever attempted: cap and trade...
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When pressing the House of Representatives on the Waxman-Markey cap and trade bill, President Obama remarked, Make no mistake: This is a jobs bill.” Insert “killing” between “jobs” and “bill” and you have yourself an accurate statement. Cap and trade is a jobs killing bill...
Kis
Kis
I managed to get a fax through. Try that!
Harry
Harry
Keep trying, America ! Our freedom and bank accounts are at stake !
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Everyone remembers President Obama’s now infamous comment as a candidate that he thinks everyone is better when we “spread the wealth around.” Of course we spread plenty of wealth around through the tax code before Obama became President...
Jim
Jim
It was certainly spread to a lucky few in 2001-2006. High time we spread it back a bit.
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The auto industry has long been a target of environmental activists. The push to put American consumers in smaller cars has been made quite clear. First, the Obama Administration enacted higher fuel efficiency standards – standards laden with unintended consequences...
Valerie
Valerie
I have been trying to call the DC switchboard to register my opposition to the Waxman Markey Cap and Trade Bill but cannot get through. Makes me sick to think that as Americans we find ourselves where we are, fighting to survive and stay FREE!
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The Heritage Foundation Quote of the Day: "Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what to do. This is not local self-government. It is not American. It is not the method which has made this country what it is." ~ Calvin Coolidge

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Last night, ABC News aired ‘Questions for the President: Prescription for America‘ designed to be a town hall for doctors, patients andhealth care experts to ask President Obama challenging questions on his health care proposals...
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In today’s edition of Outside the Beltway, where we semi-regularly post state and local stories of either conservatism at its best, or liberalism at its worst, we find conservatism at its best. Dennis Lennox recently ran and was elected as the Cheboygan, Michigan Drain Commissioner. His platform...
John
John
Hey ho Reid and Pelosi have to go.
James
James
No Mo Reid and Pelosi, sooner they go the better! won't
mention the Franks,Dodd and Kerry... They belong in the
closet with each other!
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The Heritage Foundation watch our new video on common misconceptions on Cap and Trade and CO2 http://tr.im/pE4t

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President Obama has yet again shifted his position on the key question of whether Americans will be able to keep their private health care package if his proposals become law...
James
James
if you sell it for a profit, make sure you give your tax to NObama.
Valerie
Valerie
"TRUTH????" Obama wouldn't know the truth if it stepped up and slapped him in the face, which it should!
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The current recession has caused many states to deplete their rainy day funds, and if politicians in Washington have anything to say, governors could see their deficits grow even further...
Sevil
Sevil
We must get the name of every lawmaker who vote for this and vote them out ASAP.
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That was the core question U.S. Rep. Robert Andrews (D-N.J.) directed to health expert Robert Moffit, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Health Policy Studies, yesterday at the House Education and Labor Committee’s first real hearing...
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The Heritage Foundation Our Fall Internship Program deadline is approaching on July 1st. You can acquire policy expertise, build marketable skills, enhance your resume, and attend events where you can meet and talk with the nation’s leading policy-makers. If you are interested (or know someone who would be), applications for the program must be submitted through our online form, available at www.heritage.org/internships.

Laurie
Laurie
Sure wish I could go for this!
Laurie
Laurie
"The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage." Psalm 16:5-6
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The Heritage Foundation Here is the latest Blogger Briefing video from Accuracy in Media.

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Vicki
Vicki
Count me in #5
Chris
Chris
This is an administration run by the polls. You need to notice that there is a 3 day lag on messages from the White House. Clinton was just as bad with the polsters. At least it limits the POTUS' television appearences to 3/week (yeah right!).
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Like cyberspace, space remains a critical enabler of America’s military power...
Laurie
Laurie
Agreed about there not being any place on planet Earth fit to live after all this. But not to worry! The Owner of this planet is coming back to make some major renovations soon, and He will show the devil's crowd what REAL global warming will be like. Wouldn't want to be in their shoes when that Day comes...
Marita
Marita
Can't wait til the Owner comes back!!!! Unfortunately things will get a lot more uncomfortable for us in the meantime. Stay strong in faith!
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In a small, but hugely significant move, leader of Britain’s Conservative Party, David Cameron, has formally constituted a new parliamentary grouping in the European Parliament...
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The Waxman-Markey global warming bill – already the most convoluted attempt at economic central planning this nation has ever seriously considered – just got a lot more complicated with hundreds of pages of last-minute changes...
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The Heritage Foundation Quote of the Day: "Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics." ~ John Adams

Gail
Gail
so he should step down the way Clinton did? And he was the President!!! Yes, our elected officials should set good examples & he raelly screwed up (literally...) but he gets some credit for admitting his wrong. We are called to avoid judging others
Stephen
Stephen
I can understand about the urge to switch but, please hang in there! we need masses of people joining, not leaving! Besides, what DOES the Independent Party stand for? Like the old adage says, "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything"
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After speaking at Heritage’s weekly Blogger Briefing, Senator Cornyn articulated why a public option does not lower health care costs, no matter what. Watch: Click here to view the embedded vide
Timothy
Timothy
what a lying sack of...
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At his press conference today, President Barack Obama defended his insistence that health care reform include a government-run insurance plan, explaining: Why would it drive private insurance out of business...
Lais
Lais
While watching the press conference, I was appalled by his "logic", so glad to see others were as well. I almost believe that some of the journalists were "awake"as well...they were not as "soft" as usual. Thank you for all of you rhard work to keep us informed of the facts.
Jack
Jack
Even the black "Urban Public Radio" woman was pissed he couldn't give her a good answer!... Honeymoon's over!
Timothy
Timothy
You want public Health Care? Join the Medi-Cal program where the state of California second guesses and short shifts Dr.s, needed, necessary treatments wait, and are never addressed, where your teeth rot and fall out, where MRI's and CT are not covered and on and on and on. Go to ANY small welfare town and take a hard look at well intentioned but ... Read Morepoorly delivered Gov't health care. You ask what kind of healthcare is that? What kind of insurance is that? It's the insurance fully 70% of the Dr's in California will not take. The issue is whether or not the gov't CAN do it efficiently, and the history suggests, um, NO!
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On Wednesday night, ABC News will air a special program entitled: “Questions for the President: Prescription for America,” in which Diane Sawyer, Charlie Gibson, and audience members will ask the President a series of questions on his health care reform ideas...
Alice
Alice
My area just recently was declared a disaster area after recent rains and massive flooding. Where are you Mr President or Mrs. Granholm?
Jeffrey
Jeffrey
Why do you hate your country?
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The Heritage Foundation Less than an hour left to stop the EPA from hijacking the economy. We need 1,000 comments to reach 30,000.

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The Heritage Foundation For those in the DC area don't miss our screening of 33 Minutes on Wednesday night with a reception at Lounge 201 following the screening. http://tr.im/oPIb

Jeremiah
Jeremiah
Maybe Obama could give it to Gordon Brown.......oh wait....
Tim
Tim
lol Chris
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The Heritage Foundation Help us get to 30,000 comments by the end of the day to help stop the EPA from hijacking the economy http://tr.im/mQaD

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The Heritage Foundation Quote of the Day: "Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt." ~ Samuel Adams

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The Heritage Foundation Join over 16,000 people and help stop harmful regulations from the EPA http://tr.im/mQaD

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The Heritage Foundation Quote of the Day: "Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread." ~ Thomas Jefferson

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Major Senate Floor Action - The Senate will continue proceedings on the tourism bill which we commented on earlier this week. The bill proposes that a “nonprofit corporation” be established to promote tourism in the United States. There is a $10 tax that would be placed on every visitor...
Mary
Mary
I am sorry your Grandma is suffering, but your analogy could not be more accurate. I too have wondered what has happened to us that our citizens have stopped thinking for themselves
I lament that so many of our young people have been so eager to see a black person in office that they have overlooked the fact that skin color does not a leader make.
Laurie
Laurie
Thank you for your kind words, Mary. Most of the time my Grandma does NOT appear to be suffering. She's mostly happy and childlike, and loves everyone she sees. In fact, we could carry the analogy further. Most of the young people in our nation are blissfully happy and playing with their cell phones and iPods or whatever right now, as though ... Read Moreall is right with the world. They really don't have a clue about this horrible disease that is killing them. Someone else is taking care of all of their needs for them -- they are clean, fed, clothed and comfortable.
But I don't want any of this to be true; I wish someone would wake me up and tell me it was all just a nightmare that's gone now. I desperately want to be wrong about this.
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The US Navy is shadowing a North Korean freighter that may be transporting military cargo banned by UN Resolution 1874...
Matthew
Matthew
Board the ship and seize the cargo.
Jimmie
Jimmie
Naw..........we have to throw it to the Blue Helmets at the UN so they can discuss what to do about it....
NOTHING!...............It's a damn shame.......
Candy
Candy
Don't just stand there!
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Less than 24 hours after Heritage Foundation President Ed Feulner questioned the veracity of President Obama’s persistent claim that, under his health care proposals, “if you like your insurance package you can keep it”, the White House has begun to walk the President’s claim back...
Connie
Connie
Right Drew!
Connie
Connie
Why would we even think of putting in a massive "government" ran program when the Dems have not even come up with a way to pay for this!!! No way....
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The Heritage Foundation Quote of the Day: "We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power." ~ Thomas Paine