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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Dept. Of Keeping The Mob At Bay: Heritage Foundation Constructing Moat Around Itself |
| Published: August 17, 2007, 2:12 pm |
| Tags: Dept Of Keeping The Mob At Bay, Heritage Foundation, Moats |
| the construction around the Heritage Foundation’s headquarters on Massachusetts Ave. NE has taken an ominous turn, first with the sinister barbed-wire-topped walls and now with what appears to be an actual moat around the building. Considering the vast gulf between public sentiment and Heritage Foundation positions — this week, the |
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| Don’t Discount the Need for Korean Union |
| Published: September 13, 2007, 10:57 pm |
| Tags: Military, East Asia, Politics, Usa, Asia, Bruce Klinger, Gnp, Lee Myung Bak, North Korea, Rok, South Korea, The Heritage Foundation |
| I have only one problem with Bruce Klinger’s otherwise informative backgrounder on South Korean politics: Klinger fails to recognize the ways in which Korean unification will affect ROK-US relations. I don’t think he recognizes how much some sort of inter-Korean economic community is more important for Seoul than it is for the US, or |
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| Evening News' Distressed Over Plight of Employers of Illegal Immigrants |
| Published: October 11, 2007, 2:21 pm |
| Tags: Heritage Foundation, Immigration, Jim Zappala, Mike Biltonen, Robert Rector, Seth Doane, Cbs Evening News, New York |
| According to a study by The Heritage Foundation, a household headed by an individual without a high school education, which includes about two-thirds of illegal aliens, costs U.S. taxpayers more than $32,000 in federal, state and local benefits. That same family contributes an average of $9,000 a year in taxes, resulting in a net tax burden of |
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| 2 of 3 'Newspapers of Record' Fail to Record Federal Fiscal-Year Deficit News |
| Published: October 14, 2007, 9:28 am |
| Tags: 2008 Presidential, Budget, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Economy, Heritage Foundation, Taxes, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Major Newspapers |
| Heritage Foundation's Robert Bluey reported in his Sunday Townhall column that there was disinterest at the hallowed "newspapers of record" in the government's news about the just-ended fiscal year's deficit (links to White House deficit announcement and to Business and Media Institute report are in the original): The U.S. budget |
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| CNN Forwards Liberal Explanation on Increase in Teen Birth Rates |
| Published: December 7, 2007, 12:01 pm |
| Tags: Conservatives Amp Amp Republicans, Culture Society, Government Agencies, Heritage Foundation, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Sexuality, Cecile Richards, Mary Snow, Robert Rector, Wolf Blitzer, The Situation Room, Cnn |
| conservative think tank, The Heritage Foundation, which explains the teen birth rate rise this way. ROBERT RECTOR, THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: They want to have children very, very much. They feel they ought to wait until they are a little older but, gee, waiting isn't all that critical. SNOW: Just whether abstinence-only programs work has been a |
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| Evidence From Waterboarding Could Be Used in Military Trials |
| Published: December 12, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Evidence, From, Waterboarding, Could, Used, Military, Trials, Morris Davis, Central Intelligence Agency, Lindsey Graham, Guantanamo Bay, United States, Dianne Feinstein, Saddam Hussein, Thomas W Hartmann, The Heritage Foundation, U S Department Of Defense |
| The top legal adviser for the military trials of Guantanamo Bay detainees told Congress yesterday that he cannot rule out the use of evidence derived from the CIA's aggressive interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, a tactic that simulates drowning. |
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| Senate Opens Debate On Wiretap Measure |
| Published: January 24, 2008, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Senate, Opens, Debate, Wiretap, Measure, Harry Reid, The White House, Dick Cheney, George W Bush, Jay Rockefeller, Jim Manley, Caroline Fredrickson, Christopher Dodd, American Civil Liberties Union, National Security Agency, The Heritage Foundation, U S Republican Par |
| The Senate yesterday began debating whether to grant legal immunity to telephone companies for assisting in warrantless wiretaps of terrorism suspects, with Democrats divided and their leadership pleading with the White House for more time to consider the issue. |
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| Majority of Hill Stands Against D.C. Gun Ban |
| Published: February 8, 2008, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Majority, Hill, Stands, Against, D C, Gun, Ban, Washington Dc, Virginia, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Jim Webb, John Warner, Paul Clement, Maryland, District Columbia, Jon Tester, The Heritage Foundation, U S Court Of Appeals |
| A majority of the Senate and more than half of the members of the House will file a brief today urging the Supreme Court to uphold a ruling that the District's handgun ban violates the Second Amendment. |
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| Majority of Hill Stands Against D.C. Gun Ban |
| Published: February 8, 2008, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Majority, Hill, Stands, Against, D C, Gun, Ban, Washington Dc, Virginia, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Jim Webb, John Warner, Paul Clement, Maryland, District Columbia, Jon Tester, The Heritage Foundation, U S Court Of Appeals |
| A majority of the Senate and more than half of the members of the House will file a brief today urging the Supreme Court to uphold a ruling that the District's handgun ban violates the Second Amendment. |
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| U.S. Makes Case About Satellite To Foreign Envoys |
| Published: February 16, 2008, 12:00 am |
| Tags: U S, Makes, Case, About, Satellite, Foreign, Envoys, China, United States, John Tkacik, Sean Mccormack, Theresa Hitchens, U S Department Of State, David Wright, George W Bush, Center For Defense Information, Russia, The Heritage Foundation, Union Of Concerned Scientists |
| The State Department sent cables to all embassies yesterday instructing diplomats to explain to foreign governments how the upcoming attempt to shoot down an out-of-control spy satellite is different from China's destruction of one of its orbiting satellites early last year. |
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| CBS Reporter Calls Fidel Castro 'Revolutionary Hero' |
| Published: May 1, 2008, 4:16 pm |
| Tags: Cuba, Foreign Policy, Heritage Foundation, Latin America, Poverty, Elizabeth Palmer, Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, Russ Mitchell, Cbs, Early Show |
| socialism." The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal said in the 2008 Index of Economic Freedom that Cuba was 27.5 percent free, making it one of the world's "most repressed economies," ahead of only the dictatorship in North Korea. The Index of Economic Freedom also notes that Cuba performs poorly in business |
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| Most Likely to Succeed and Serve, and Sacrifice |
| Published: May 26, 2008, 3:20 am |
| Tags: Column1 02, Most Popular 04, Positioning, Afghanistan, Homeland Security, Iraq, Middle East, Opinion, Politics, Us News, World News, Chaminade High School, Heritage Foundation, John Kerry, Roman Catholic, Stephen King, Ted Rall, Tim Kane |
| Those who assume young men who choose the military don't have what it takes to succeed in other areas haven't heard of the remarkable servicemen from Chaminade High School. |
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| Critics Study Possible Limits to Habeas Corpus Ruling |
| Published: June 14, 2008, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Critics, Study, Possible, Limits, Habeas, Corpus, Ruling, Guantanamo Bay, George W Bush, Lindsey Graham, U S District Court, Carl Levin, Harry Reid, Jim Manley, The White House, Joby Warrick, Josh White, Julie Tate, Quentin Wilber, Capitol Hill, The Heritage Foundation |
| The White House and allies in Congress have begun exploring how to limit the scope of this week's Supreme Court ruling that says suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay have the right to challenge their detentions in federal court. |
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| Critics Study Possible Limits to Habeas Corpus Ruling |
| Published: June 14, 2008, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Critics, Study, Possible, Limits, Habeas, Corpus, Ruling, Guantanamo Bay, George W Bush, Lindsey Graham, U S District Court, Carl Levin, Harry Reid, Jim Manley, The White House, Joby Warrick, Josh White, Julie Tate, Quentin Wilber, Capitol Hill, The Heritage Foundation |
| The White House and allies in Congress have begun exploring how to limit the scope of this week's Supreme Court ruling that says suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay have the right to challenge their detentions in federal court. |
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| "Those People": Humanizing the Health Care Debate (by Andrew Wilkes) |
| Published: June 24, 2008, 5:35 pm |
| Tags: Healthcare, Heritage Foundation, Medicaid, Medicare, Schip |
| a health-care debate at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. Inspired by Denzel Washington's The Great Debaters, two groups of five people debated the following resolution: Government-sponsored health care programs should be expanded to cover the uninsured. The group arguing against the aforementioned resolution carried the day. |
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