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Palin Online -- Palin's Web Buzz Trumps Obama's

Jose Antonio Vargas | Posted 11.20.2009 | Technology


Jose Antonio Vargas

Is there anyone quite like Sarah Palin online? At the moment, no -- not Michael Jackson, not Manny Pacquiao, not even President Obama, according to Google Insights for Search.

Heritage Turkeys: Eat A Delicious And Ethically Raised Turkey This Thanksgiving (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Eve Solomon | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green


According to the National Turkey Federation, 48 million turkeys were eaten at Thanksgiving in 2008. The typical, mass produced turkey consumed by 9...

Wanted: Free-Market Mouthpieces

Rob Warmowski | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics


Rob Warmowski

For my entire adult life, I have watched free-market fundamentalists do their thing. They demonize government, run for government, capture government, then dismantle and privatize government.

ConUNdrum: Military Junta Hosts Book Launch For John Bolton And Brett Schaefer

The UN Dispatch | Mark Leon Goldberg | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics


Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Bolton and Heritage Foundation fellow Brett Schaefer have a new book out. It's called ConUNdrum (get it?!): Th...

On Overcriminalized.Com, Heritage Foundation Defends Violent Sex Offenders' "Trivial Conduct"

Media Matters Action Network | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics


As we have mentioned before, the conservative Heritage Foundation produces the website Overcriminalized.com, which advocates the theory that "as a res...

Putting Off Health Care

Harry Moroz | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics


Harry Moroz

Delaying implementation only allows the relentlessly increasing unemployment rate to push up the relentlessly increasing rate of the uninsured.

Arizona May Turn Death Row Over To Private Companies

nytimes.com | JENNIFER STEINHAUER | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics


FLORENCE, Ariz. -- One of the newest residents on Arizona's death row, a convicted serial killer named Dale Hausner, poked his head up from his televi...

Conservatives ... You Can't Handle the CBO!

Bill Scher | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics


Bill Scher

Conservatives are straining to claim that the plain English version of the Baucus bill is completely meaningless. Which is, of course, all nonsense.

Prediction Impossible: How Protecting Consumers Is Like Protecting the Environment

Harry Moroz | Posted 09.30.2009 | Business


Harry Moroz

By using consumer well-being as a first principal, the Consumer Financial Protection Agency will consider the social costs of financial innovations.

Irony Alert: Conservatives Ride Government-Run Transit to Protest Government Spending

John Petro | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics


John Petro

Incredibly, the same people that rode Metro to the National Mall to protest taxes and government spending were upset about Metro's level of service.

Heritage Foundation Slams Anti-Child Rape Bill As "Overcriminalization"

Media Matters Action Network | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics


By implying stricter penalties on child sex offenders is an example of Big Government overreaching its authority in order to punish "trivial conduct,"...

The Pentagon's Nuclear Posture Landmine

Joe Cirincione | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics


Joe Cirincione

Rather than shaping a nuclear policy to prevent the 21st century threats of nuclear terrorism and new nuclear states, the Pentagon reviewers are defending Cold War architectures.

Freedom, Choice, and Health Care Reform

Harry Moroz | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics


Harry Moroz

The Health Insurance Exchange is a means of regulating private insurance, not destroying it: it maintains a market for insurance, while affirming modern-day economists' good sense.

Time for the U.S. to Promote Travel

Mike Smith | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics


Mike Smith

Unlike most other developed nations, the U.S. doesn't promote tourism to attract visitors. The Travel Promotion Act could serve as a much-needed stimulus for this depressed industry.

Laura Dean

Bush CIA Honcho: Military Option Should Be Off The Table With Iran

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Dean | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics


As the fifth consecutive day of protests in Iran drew to a close, one of the chief members of President Bush's intelligence apparatus warned that the ...

Why American Neo-Cons Wanted Ahmadinejad to Win

Stephen Zunes | Posted 07.18.2009 | World


Stephen Zunes

It is unfortunate that Ahmadinejad is apparently remaining in office despite the fact that the United States now has a reformer in the White House.

John Campbell, GOP Rep., Compares Obama To South American Dictators

The Hill | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics


The Obama administration's intervention in the economy mimics South American regimes of the 1980s that nationalized industries, a Republican congressm...

Sonia Sotomayor: The Answer Rhymes with "Fender"

Shira Tarrant | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics


Shira Tarrant

Conservatives who argue that Sotomayor is too quick, too rational, too emotional and too empathetic need to check themselves.

Does Sen. Barrasso of Wyoming Really Want Science to Guide Him?

Todd Wilkinson | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green


Todd Wilkinson

Science should indeed be the foundation of public policy. To say so, but then to act otherwise, is political hypocrisy at its worst.

Jack Kemp and the Failed Republican Urban Agenda

Harry Moroz | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics


Harry Moroz

Jack Kemp should be remembered as the lone conservative voice to speak about the importance of cities at least since the federal government turned its back on urban areas.

The Left isn't Leaving Obama -- Yet

Rupert Russell | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics


Rupert Russell

Pundits have criticized last week's announcements on the new bank bailout and Afghanistan. Yet, a crack up of the Democratic coalition or fracturing of the progressive movement it is not.

McCain: People Voted "Mostly For Sarah Palin" Last Year

CNN | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics


Former Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain has no illusions about the 2008 White House race. "God bless them," McCain said Thursday at...

Capital Strike?

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics


Joseph A. Palermo

The day will come when Obama will have no choice but to remind the giant corporations through tough government action that the U.S. is not just another one of their wholly owned subsidiaries.

Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: January 30, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.02.2009 | Media


Well, you knew this was coming! From Lynn Sweet: I just chatted with Justin Herndon, one of the publicists who put together the media blitz for now ...

Heritage Foundation: Torturing Facts, Sacrificing the Poor

Pete Aaltman | Posted 02.13.2009 | Green


Pete Aaltman

The Heritage Foundation celebrated a study that concludes that "higher temperatures reduce agricultural output in poor countries" and "lead to reductions in industrial output, aggregate investment, scientific research, and political stability."