Critics of a study the Heritage Foundation released yesterday looking at the costs of amnesty for illegal immigrants have done something strange — they’ve attacked us for not doing the study they wanted us to do. It is odd that so many politicians and outsiders feel that they should decide what an educational institution such as Heritage should and shouldn’t…

The United States has always been a nation of immigrants, at our best when welcoming to our shores those who "yearn to breathe free." Indeed, immigration has had many positive effects on our economy and society. We have successfully, if not perfectly, lived out our motto of "out of many, one." We have had a culture and limited government that encouraged individual…

The smallest and most fundamental form of government is the family and it is falling apart. Americans across the political spectrum are beginning to recognize it. President Obama, in this year's State of the Union address, said he wanted to work to "strengthen families by removing the financial deterrents to marriage for low-income couples, and doing more to encourage…

In his second inaugural address, President Obama talked about doing things "together." "Together we resolved that a great nation must care for the vulnerable, and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune," he said. The president is right that we all need help from time to time, and we must care for our most vulnerable. But when he says "a great nation…

Gallup polls recently confirmed that most Americans think the government is trying to do too many things (54 percent) and that it shouldn’t promote traditional values (52 percent). Should we cheer these libertarian sentiments? Yes and no. Government, particularly the federal government, is too big and arrogant, always asserting that it knows best. Washington even…

Such was the last word and prayer of William Tyndale, first translator of the New Testament into English. Tyndale was strangled and burned at the stake in pre-Reformation England in 1536 because he would not bow to the will of King Henry VIII in religious matters. Today a company bearing Tyndale's name is asking God to open President Obama's eyes to his trampling of…

“If it moves, tax it if it keeps moving, regulate it and if it stops moving, subsidize it.” President Ronald Reagan’s axiom about how Washington deals with the economy accurately describes the current administration’s approach to energy production. The United States has the world’s largest reserves of traditional fuels, and our energy sector is booming. Domestic…

Americans who have a job this Labor Day are right to be thankful for it. And all of us ought to be grateful for the culture of work that made America prosperous. Unfortunately, fewer and fewer Americans are working: Only 58 of every 100 citizens are employed, down from about 63 in June 2007. Much of that can be attributed to the bad economy. But our culture and…

For the first time in American history, both candidates on a major ticket in presidential politics aren't Protestants. And for that matter, religiously speaking, none of the four candidates leading the Democratic and Republican tickets will be WASPs either - from a white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant background. We've come a long way from 1776 when North Carolina's…