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Condomizing Jesse Helms' House

Sean Strub | Posted 07.17.2008 | 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
Sean Strub

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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Time to Stop Playing Politics on Defense

Bernard I. Finel | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bipartisan Consensus, Heritage Foundation, American Security Project, Defense Spending, Politics, Defense Policy, Politics News
Bernard I. Finel

Getting serious about national security means having a nuanced conversation with the American people about our role in the world as well as the price we, as a nation, are willing to pay for it.

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HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson's Resignation -- A Window Into Bush Administration's Corruption, Indifference, and Incompetence

Peter Dreier | Posted 04.02.2008 | Home

Read More: No Child Left Behind, Kellog Brown & Root, Resignations Bush Administration, Political Hacks Bush, Bush Administration Scandals, Government Mismanagement Bush, Crony Capitalism, Post-Katrina Louisiana, HUD Alphonso Jackson, Weeklyi Standard, Low-Income Housing Programs, Bush Administration Poverty Policy, Fluor Corporation, Dick Cheney, Bush Administration Poor People, American Enterprise Institute, Regulations Cutbacks Bush, Bechtel, George Bush Corruption, Katrina Corruption, Iraq War Bush Companies, Bush Administration Poverty, Iraq War Bush Cronies, Grover Norquist, Lies of George W. Bush, No-Bid Government Contracts, George Bush Incompetence, Halliburton Bush, David Corn, Health and Safety Regulations Bush, Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute, Conservatives Political Theory, George Bush Class Warfare, Halliburton, Post-Katrina Reconstruction, Military Spending Bush, Valerie Plame, HUD Resignation, HUD Secretary, Lewis Scooter Libby, Bush Economy, Saddam Hussein, Conservatives Government, Low-Income Housing Program Cuts, Political Appointees Bush, Bush Administration Low-Income, Alberto Gonzales, William Kristol, Americans for Tax Reform, Home News
Peter Dreier

The involuntary resignation of HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson this week provides an opportunity to underscore and distinguish the three major failings of the Bush administration.

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Presidential Candidates Channel Bart Simpson

Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 03.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Social Security, Heritage Foundation, Home Heating Subsidies, Debt, Marriage Penalty, The Simpsons, Barack Obama, Bush Tax Cuts, Money, Federal Debt, Congressional Budget Office, Medicare, Hillary Clinton, Federal Budget, Alternative Minimum Tax, Brookings Institution, College Tuition Credits, Government Accountability Office, Business News
Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson

The majority of Americans can be impressively sensible and level-headed when they are given the facts and asked to consider trade-offs, but they don't like to be blindsided.

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The Problem with Open Primaries

Alex Leo | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Virginia, Heritage Foundation, Primaries, Open Primary, Robert Bluey, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Politics News
Alex Leo

In Virginia's system each individual is allowed to degrade the process by voting for who they think will be the worst, the slowest, oldest, most inexperienced, and least qualified.

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Reclaiming Economic Freedom

Robert Weissman | Posted 01.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Deregulation, Foreign Aid, Heritage Foundation, Economic Policy, Corporations, Economy, Business News
Robert Weissman

Every year, the Heritage Foundation, in conjunction with the Wall Street Journal, dutifully churns out its annual Index of Economic Freedom, a ratings...

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Telecom Immunity: Covering Up Illegality by Secrecy and Fear

Coleen Rowley | Posted 01.23.2008 | Home

Read More: NSA's Terrorist Surveillance Program, Heritage Foundation, Joseph Nacchio, Dick Cheney, Home News
Coleen Rowley

The administration's push to provide immunity for telecoms is on a par with the C.I.A.'s destruction of videotaped interrogations or the millions of missing White House e-mail records.

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2007 Eye on the Right

Andrea Batista Schlesinger | Posted 12.30.2007 | Politics

Read More: American Enterprise Institute, Public Policy, Heritage Foundation, Think Tanks, Right Wing Think Tanks, Family Research Council, Cato Institute, Consumer Safety, Hoover Institute, Right Wing, Manhattan Institute, Poverty, Politics News
Andrea Batista Schlesinger

The Heritage Foundation will celebrate its 35th birthday in 2008 (no need for a present -- last year, they declared total assets of over $213 million).

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The Changing Politics of Evangelicals

Tony Campolo | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics

Read More: Heritage Foundation, Jerry Falwell, Talk Radio, John McCain, Mike Huckabee and Religion, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Religious Right, Religion and Politics, Hillary Clinton, Bob Jones University, Red Letter Christians, Pat Robertson, Politics News
Tony Campolo

Younger evangelicals may not necessarily vote Democratic, but they certainly are no longer safely in the pocket of the Republican Party.

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Mitt Romney is Thinking of a Number

Chris Kelly | Posted 11.14.2007 | Politics

Read More: Heritage Foundation, Social Security, Nuclear Weapons, Funding the Troops, Veterans Day, Romney Weapons Funding, Mitt Romney, Medicaid, Medicare, Romney Spending, Romney Heritage Foundation, Weapons Spending, Department of Defense, Defense Spending, Politics News
Chris Kelly

Mitt Romney celebrated Veterans Day with a message. A promise. A pledge: To cut veterans' hospitals, Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare and spend the money on weapons.

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Bush and the Four Dollar Gallon

Sasha Abramsky | Posted 11.12.2007 | Business

Read More: Heritage Foundation, Bush Oil, Gore Oil, Liquid Gold, High Oil Prices, Opec, Oil Prices, Bush Gore, Business News
Sasha Abramsky

Where is Bush today, when people earning scandalously low wages, at least in part because of his administration's antipathy to the minimum wage, are spending a quarter of their paycheck filling up their cars to drive to work?

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Attach S-CHIP to the Iraq Spending Bills

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.02.2007 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, John Conyers, Richard Nixon, Dick Cheney, Michael Mukasey, Heritage Foundation, Impeach, Bush SCHIP Veto, Impeach Bush, Impeachment, Mukasey Torture, Bush SCHIP, Schip, Torture, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

If Bush attacks Iran before he leaves office, we are all going to wish the Congress would have impeached him before he could do it.

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