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

Media Matters Action Network | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Violent Sex Offenders Heritage Foundation, overcriminalized.com, Heritage Foundation, Heritage Foundation Overcriminalized, Heritage Foundation Sex Offenders, Politics News

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

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Putting Off Health Care

Harry Moroz | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, House of Representatives, National Review, Unemployment, Health Care, Politico, Affordable Health Care for America Act, Health Care Reform, Medicaid, Kaiser Family Foundation, Senate, Politics News

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

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Arizona May Turn Death Row Over To Private Companies

nytimes.com | JENNIFER STEINHAUER | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Prision Privatization, Arizona Death Row, Heritage Foundation, Death Row, Arizona Prison, Corrections Corporation of America, Andy Biggs, John Kavanagh, Privitization, Politics News

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...

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

Bill Scher | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cbo, Heritage Foundation, Max Baucus, Mary Katherine Ham, Senate Finance Committee, Weekly Standard, Olympia Snowe, Politics News

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

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Prediction Impossible: How Protecting Consumers Is Like Protecting the Environment

Harry Moroz | Posted 09.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Heritage Foundation, David John, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Financial Crisis, Barney Frank, Frbsf, Business News

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

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

John Petro | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Heritage Foundation, Mass Transit, Congress, Teabaggers, Conservatives, Dc-Metro, National Mall, Washington DC, Rep-Kevin-Brady, Libertarians, Wmata, Politics News

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.

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

Media Matters Action Network | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Child Prostitution, Child Pornography, Heritage Foundation, Prevention and Deterrence of Crimes Against Children Act of 2009, Rape, Overcriminalization, Sex Trafficking, H.R. 3513, Politics News

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

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The Pentagon's Nuclear Posture Landmine

Joe Cirincione | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Heritage Foundation, Department of Defense, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Posture Review, Nuclear Threat Initiative, James Schlesinger, Nuclear Proliferation, Japan, Prague Speech, Bill Perry, Deterrence, Politics News

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.

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Freedom, Choice, and Health Care Reform

Harry Moroz | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: The Great Transformation, The Foundry, Freedom, Health Insurance Exchange, Heritage Foundation, Karl Polanyi, Joseph Stiglitz, Rory Cooper, Health Care, Public Option, Conservatives, Politics News

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.

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Time for the U.S. to Promote Travel

Mike Smith | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Heritage Foundation, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Sen. Patrick Leahy, Rep. Roy Blunt, Sen. Harry Reid, Joe Biden, Roger Dow, Obama Stimulus Travel, Politics News

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.

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Dean | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Heritage Foundation, Central Intelligence Agency, John McLaughlin, Cia, Obama Iran, Bush Iran, Obama Foreign Policy, Bush Cia, Politics News

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 ...

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Why American Neo-Cons Wanted Ahmadinejad to Win

Stephen Zunes | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Neocons, Neoconservatives, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Iranian Election, Iran Election, Neoconservatives Iran, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Heritage Foundation, Daniel Pipes, World News

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.

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

The Hill | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: South America, General Motors, Heritage Foundation, Automaker Bailout, Nationalization, Chrysler, Gm, Economic Crisis, John Cambpell, Economy, President Obama, South America Nationalizations, Obama, Politics News

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

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Sonia Sotomayor: The Answer Rhymes with "Fender"

Shira Tarrant | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Alt, Heritage Foundation, Karl Rove, Guido Calabresi, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, New York Times, Gender, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor Karl Rove, Politics News

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

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

Todd Wilkinson | Posted 06.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Heritage Foundation, Barrasso, John Barrasso, Senator Barrasso, Carbon Emissions, Epa, Green News

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

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Jack Kemp and the Failed Republican Urban Agenda

Harry Moroz | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Heritage Foundation, Mayors, Jack Kemp, George H.W. Bush, Bruce Vento, George W. Bush, The New Republic, Republicans, Newt Gingrich, Conservatives, Cities, Los Angeles, Enterprise Zones, Michael Kinsley, Frank Jackson, Politics News

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.

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The Left isn't Leaving Obama -- Yet

Rupert Russell | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Heritage Foundation, Think Tanks, Left Wing, Robert Reich, Conservatives, Interest-Groups, Rachel Maddow, Michael Moore, Card-Check, Paul Krugman, Intellectual, Unions, Labor Unions, Barack Obama, Arianna Huffington, David Frum, Obama's Economic Team, Politics News

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.

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

CNN | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Heritage Foundation, John McCain, John McCain Heritage Foundation, John McCain Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin, Politics News

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

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Capital Strike?

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute, Rush Limbaugh, John Boehner, Employee Free Choice Act, Economic Crisis, Franklin Roosevelt, Eric Cantor, Barack Obama, American Enterprise Institute, Hilda Solis, Bail Outs, National Association of Manufacturers, Ideological Hegemony, Talk Radio, Fox News, Drudge Report, Club for Growth, Chamber of Commerce, Nationalization of Banking Industry, Progressivism, Republican Party, Robert Kennedy, Bailout Bandits, Politics News

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.

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Scritti Politti: January 30, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Phil Gingrey, Judd Gregg, Heritage Foundation, Mitch McConnell, Twitter, Lynn Sweet, Jim Demint, Commerce Department, Rush Limbaugh, Judd Gregg Commerce, Samantha Power, Economic Stimulus Package, Rod Blagojevich, Blagojevich Media Blitz, Media News

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 ...

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Heritage Foundation: Torturing Facts, Sacrificing the Poor

Pete Aaltman | Posted 02.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Heritage Foundation, Think Tanks, Climate, Tufts University, 2008 Presidential Race, Environment, US News & World Report, Climate Change, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Global Warming, 2008 Presidential Election, Green News

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."

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The Unequivocal Faith of the Climate Change Quibblers

Kevin Grandia | Posted 02.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Heritage Foundation, James Pethokoukis, Election Reaction, Climate Change, Conn Carroll, Climate Change Economy, Global Warming Economy, Conn Carol, Global Warming, Kevin Grandia, Green News

It's mind-boggling how little evidence it takes for a free market think tank like the Heritage Foundation to be convinced that we should do nothing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Right-Wing Fear Machine

Lt. General Robert G. Gard Jr. (USA, Ret.) | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Heritage Foundation, Nuclear Weapons, Weapons of Mass Destruction, National Security, Missile Defense, North Korea, Iran Missiles, Barack Obama, Politics of Fear, Fearmongering, Right Wing Think Tanks, Right Wing, Right Wing Pundits, Video, Politics News

This video comes courtesy of the unabashed hawks at the right-wing Heritage Foundation. Watch it for yourself, but you might want to put the kids to bed first.

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The New Narrative: Cities Aren't Cesspools

Harry Moroz | Posted 12.07.2008 | Media

Read More: George Bush, Heritage Foundation, Cory Booker, Ronald Reagan, Conservatives, Urban Policy, Politics, Election 2008, Conservativism, Los Angeles, Election Results, Barack Obama, Cities, Economy, Media News

That Barack Obama won the "city vote" - 83% of Philadelphia County, 76% of Chicago's Cook County, 68.5% of Cleveland's Cuyahoga County - is no surpris...

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Condomizing Jesse Helms' House

Sean Strub | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Condom, HIV/AIDS, Heritage Foundation, Condom on House, Treatment Action Group, Sean Strub, Poz. Peter Staley, Rebecca Norton Dunlop, Jesse Helms, ACT UP, Aids, David Geffen, Becky Norton Dunlop, Stephen Gendin, Tag, Politics News

We pulled up in front of Helms's house and jumped out of the truck like jackrabbits, racing to unload the ladders, blowers, generator and, of course, the condom.

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