Abstract: In asserting that the Boeing Company is engaging in unfair labor practices by establishing a new aircraft assembly facility in South Carolina, a right-to-work state, instead of Washington State, which is heavily unionized, the National Labor Relations Board is twisting the law to benefit unions at the expense of the rule of law and the nation’s economy.…
OPINION/ANALYSIS: President Obama spent 2009 engaged in an unprecedented first-year spending spree. Now he is apparently planning to spend his second year creating the illusion of fiscal responsibility. On the campaign trail, then-candidate Mr. Obama promised a "net spending cut." Instead, he signed a historic $787 billion "stimulus" bill, expanded the State…
The Heritage Foundation's This Week in Washington Video discusses three major issues: achieving peace by ensuring a strong military and funding defense programs, President Obama's creation of a government ownership society, and stopping the proposed…
he Heritage Foundation's This Week in Washington Video discusses three major issues: a proposed national energy tax to reduce CO2 emissions, adding non-war related spending to Iraq and Afghanistan war supplemental legislation, and more government man…
The Heritage Foundation's This Week in Washington video discusses three major issues: the call to examine the judicial philosophy and record of President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, bank bailouts, and the new education entitlement program that wil…
The Heritage Foundation's This Week in Washington video discusses three major issues: the nomination of Harold Koh as the State Department's legal adviser who is also on President Obama's short list as a possible Supreme Court nominee, bipartisan opp…
The Heritage Foundation's This Week in Washington video discusses four major issues: out of control federal spending and President Obama's proposed $100 million cut in budget, proposed Energy Policy measures such as Cap and Trade which will result to…
Dan Holler, a Capitol Hill insider and U.S. Senate relations deputy at The Heritage Foundation, discusses how a controversial policy known as mortgage cramdown would allow bankruptcy judges to rewrite mortgages based on an individual's ability to pay…
The Heritage Foundation's This Week in Washington video discusses three major issues: Government management of the Big 3 automakers, Rep. Paul Ryan's Republican alternative to the Obama budget, and objections to President Obama's nominee Harold Koh a…
As the House and Senate consider their version of President Obama's massive $3.552 trillion budget, the President and his allies in Congress have framed this budget as a break from President's Bush failed policies. But unlike President Bush's policy…
This lecture was held at The Heritage Foundation on March 13, 1998. Welcome to our panel discussion on the 30th anniversary of the publication of the Kerner Commission Report. The Heritage Foundation has a number of goals. One is to roll back the liberal welfare state. A prerequisite to understanding what happened to create the liberal welfare state, and…
Delivered on February 13, 2007 With the Six-Party Talks just concluding in Beijing, it certainly is a good time to discuss North Korea. We are fortunate indeed that, as always, the Institute for Corean-American Studies is focusing Washington's attention on a grave matter that concerns both Americans and America's friends in South Korea and Japan. When…
Taxpayers funding Washington's $20,000-per-household budget have long known they are not getting their money's worth. Farm subsidies are among the most wasteful uses of taxpayer dollars. The budget-busting $180 billion farm bill enacted before the 2002 elections not only encourages the crop overproduction that depresses crop prices and farm incomes, but also…
Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) has unveiled an ambitious health care plan that is comprehensive in scope, sparse in detail, and therefore uncertain in its cost and savings estimates. His proposals focus on three stated objectives: offering affordable, comprehensive, and portable coverage; containing spiraling health care costs and improving quality of care; and…
Members of Congress are considering several bills designed to combat climate change. Chief among them is Senate bill 2191--America's Climate Security Act of 2007--spearheaded by Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and John Warner (R-VA). This bill would set a limit on the emissions of greenhouse gases, mainly carbon dioxide from the combustion of coal, oil, and natural…
Ma Ying-jeou, inaugurated as Taiwan's new president on May 20, 2008, has pledged to strengthen Taiwan's economic and political relationships with China. At the same time, he has good reason to preserve Taiwan's separate identity, and the U.S. has good reason to support him. Taiwan is one of the most dynamic democracies in Asia and one of America's top 10 trade partners.…
Introduction In his first State of the Union Address, George Bush this January set six goals to strengthen American education. One of them is to reduce the national high school dropout rate to 10 percent by the end of the decade. Currently, according to Bush, the rate is 25 percent. This high rate, it is said, saddles the United States with an undereducated…
As President Ronald Reagan reminded the American people in his 1981 inaugural address, the U.S. Constitution separates government powers so that the voters can hold government officials accountable. Government power is separated both horizontally among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches and vertically among the federal, state, and local levels. …
Should Taxpayers continue subsidizing millionaires? That's the question Congress is mulling over as it considers reauthorizing farm subsidies doled out by the Department of Agriculture. The agriculture budget totals $25 billion - more than we spend on the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. Farm subsidies are typically portrayed as a vital lifeboat for…
It is widely reported in the world press that the United States and Poland have agreed on terms for deploying ballistic missile interceptors in the East European country. The interceptors would work in conjunction with radars that will be deployed in the Czech Republic (the result of another agreement announced earlier this year). Together, they will comprise a…
Over the past several decades, federal and state transportation policies have struggled to keep pace with a rising population and increasing numbers of motorists and trucks using the roads. As a result, congestion has worsened in most major metropolitan areas, imposing extra costs on all motorists and truckers and threatening to undermine the economic vitality of many…
(Archived document, may contain errors) 3 April 21, 1977 CA R TER 'S ENER G Y PR OGRA-M President Carter has proposed a comprehensive program to deal with the energy cris is. The major features of his package include the following specific proposals A tax on mileage of inefficient automobiles coupled with a rebate on high-mileage automobiles A standby tax…
Members of the House of Representatives are scheduled to vote Thursday to repeal all of Obamacare. Given that the...…
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Under President Obama’s leadership, U.S. influence among Middle East nations has waned, and in fact declined since...…
The Medicaid expansion is touted by proponents of Obamacare as a "no-brainer." While it is true that some states may see...…
During an interview on “Face the Nation” this past Sunday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan employed the Obama...…
President Obama’s campaign organization is using discredited information and misleading numbers in its latest effort...…
We've gotten used to the Obama White House and the nation’s news media working hand in glove on most issues, but the...…