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  • Commentary posted March 10, 2010 by Ariel Cohen, Ph.D. Free Khodorkovsky

    President Obama has his hands full dealing with Russia. However, high on his agenda should be the release of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Moscow's most famous prisoner. Success there would demonstrate the administration's ability to promote freedom in Russia and around the world. It even might… Read more

  • Testimony posted March 5, 2010 by David Muhlhausen, Ph.D. Promoting Innovative Policing Strategies without Busting the Federal Budget

    Before the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate Delivered March 3, 2010 Introduction My name is David Muhlhausen. I am Senior Policy… Read more

  • Commentary posted February 2, 2010 by Jennifer Marshall Lessons From a Former Addict's Victory

    He invited drug addicts into his home. So reads the obituary of Pastor Freddie Garcia, one of the great lights that left us in 2009 after nearly 40 years of ministry showing others the way. In the 1960s, Garcia was a heroin addict living… Read more

  • Backgrounder posted January 20, 2010 by Ray Walser, Ph.D. State Sponsors of Terrorism: Time to Add Venezuela to the List

    Abstract: The U.S. officially designates four countries as state sponsors of terrorism--Iran, Syria, Cuba, and Sudan. It is high time to add Venezuela to the list. Far from being merely a populist showman and bully, Hugo Chávez is a reckless leader who collaborates with Colombian narcoterrorists and… Read more

  • Commentary posted January 15, 2010 by Hans Von Spakovsky Don't Restore Felons' Voting Rights

    In her Jan. 13 opinion piece, Erika Wood of the Brennan Center in New York suggests that Gov. Tim Kaine, on his way out the door, restore the voting rights of all 300,000 of Virginia's convicted felons "with the stroke of a pen." In effect, she is asking… Read more

  • Commentary posted January 15, 2010 by Hans Von Spakovsky Don't Restore Felons' Voting Rights

    In her Jan. 13 opinion piece, Erika Wood of the Brennan Center in New York suggests that Gov. Tim Kaine, on his way out the door, restore the voting rights of all 300,000 of Virginia's convicted felons "with the stroke of a pen." In effect, she… Read more

  • Backgrounder posted January 13, 2010 by Jena McNeill The Cargo-Screening Clog: Why the Maritime Mandate Needs to Be Re-examined

    Abstract: Cargo must be checked--but it is impossible to screen 11.6 million containers every year without bringing the global economy to its knees. How to avoid the paralyzing cargo clog of the Department of Homeland Security's mandate for 100 percent cargo screening?… Read more

  • Commentary posted January 8, 2010 by Kim R. Holmes, Ph.D. Response to Airliner Attack is Legal Theater of the Absurd

    Rarely is the absurdity of a policy completely unmasked in a single statement. But it happened last Sunday when John O. Brennan, President Obama's homeland security and counterterrorism adviser, announced that Nigerian terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had been "talking to people who detained him," but now "doesn't have to"… Read more

  • Education Notebook posted January 7, 2010 by Lindsey Burke The Missing $100 Billion Study

    In a November address to the National Association for the Education of Young Children, Education Secretary Arne Duncan talked about doing a better job of working with Health and Human Services to ensure successful early education reform. Duncan stated, "If we are going to do… Read more

  • Lecture posted December 29, 2009 by Michael Novak Social Justice: Not What You Think It Is

    Abstract: For its proponents, "social justice" is usually undefined. Originally a Catholic term, first used about 1840 for a new kind of virtue (or habit) necessary for post-agrarian societies, the term has been bent by secular "progressive" thinkers to mean uniform state distribution of society's advantages and disadvantages. Social justice… Read more

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  • WebMemo posted November 16, 2007 by Ray Walser, Ph.D. The U.S. and Mexico: Taking the "Mérida Initiative" Against Narco-Terror

    Mexican President Felipe Calderón is locked in a valiant fight against narco-traffickers, proving his commitment by extraditing to U.S. courts and prisons powerful Mexican drug kingpins and politicians, as well as seizing large amounts of drugs and drug cash. He and President Bush recently announced the $1.4 billion "Mérida… Read more

  • Backgrounder posted March 14, 2007 by David Muhlhausen, Ph.D. Federal Law Enforcement Grants and Crime Rates: No Connection Except for Waste and Abuse

    According to some mayors and local police chiefs, the United States is at the beginning of an epidemic of violence that will worsen if Congress does not restore one particular type of funding for local police officer salaries and related expenses that the Bush Administration and Congress have… Read more

  • WebMemo posted September 25, 2009 by Hans Von Spakovsky Defunding ACORN: Necessary and Proper, and Certainly Constitutional

    Barring the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) from receiving federal funds through the Defund ACORN Act is perfectly constitutional. It certainly is not a bill of attainder, as some recent reports have claimed.[1] The House of Representatives voted on September 17, 2009, to specifically prohibit ACORN from receiving… Read more

  • First Principles Series Report posted March 16, 2006 by Matthew Spalding, Ph.D. Making Citizens: The Case for Patriotic Assimilation

    Citizens by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has the right to concentrate your affections. The name of AMERICAN, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. … Read more

  • WebMemo posted April 4, 2008 by Charles Stimson Keep Track of Crack Cocaine Facts

    "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future," said Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr, quoting a fellow Dane.[1] Earlier this year, Attorney General Michael Mukasey predicted that if Congress allowed new guidelines granting retroactive application of lower prison sentences to go into effect on… Read more

  • Legal Memorandum posted March 10, 2008 by Hans Von Spakovsky Stolen Identities, Stolen Votes: A Case Study in Voter Impersonation

    On January 9, 2008, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments in Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, a case challenging the constitutionality of an Indiana law that requires most individuals who vote in person to present a govern­ment-issued photo identification.[1] Indiana's… Read more

  • Legal Memorandum posted August 29, 2008 by Rachel Brand Making It a Federal Case: An Inside View of the Pressures to Federalize Crime

    Trimming back the federal criminal code by elimi­nating offenses that should be investigated and prose­cuted by the states has long been a goal of policy experts and good-government advocates.[1] This exer­cise in federalism is worthwhile both for its consti­tutional merits and for its effect on government… Read more

  • Lecture posted June 12, 2009 by Steven Bucci The Confluence of Cyber Crime and Terrorism

    Today the world faces a wide array of cyber threats. The majority of these threats are aimed at the Western democracies and the Western-leaning countries of other regions. The reason for this is simple: They are ripe targets. These countries are either highly dependent, almost completely in some cases, on cyber means for nearly every… Read more

  • Lecture posted April 9, 2009 by Rt. Hon. Ian Smith Renewing Conservatism: Lessons from Britain

    Thank you very much for the opportunity to talk to the Heritage Foundation today. Heritage, through Jennifer Marshall, has been a significant partner of the Centre for Social Justice in building up an international network of individuals and think tanks interested in center-right approaches to the delivery of social justice. I am particularly grateful… Read more

  • Backgrounder posted May 13, 2008 by James Roberts How Reforms in Mexico Could Make the U.S. More Secure

    Felipe Calderón, who began his single sexenio (six-year term) as President of Mexico in December 2006, has made significant progress in the fight against narcotrafficking, but Mexicans are still waiting to see whether his government will successfully chal­lenge the private- and public-sector monopolies and duopolies that dominate huge portions… Read more

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