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Blog Archive 2009

Cramming down health care costs with government purchasing power (i.e., “the public option”) might seem like a good idea, since many other countries appear to spend on health care only about half per More...

The Other Unemployment Rate

The real unemployment rate is 17.5 percent. That’s the so-called U-6 rate, which counts not only those who are out of work and seeking a job, but also those who’ve given up looking for work as we More...

Independence Institute Turns 25

Congratulations to the Independence Institute, which this week celebrates 25 years of promoting liberty and limited government in Colorado. Last week, the Denver alternative weekly Westword mercilessl More...

Worth Checking Out: A Constitution Reference for Everyone; a Stimulus-Tracking Site for Anyone

• The Citizen’s Constitution: An Annotated Guide is the reference work on the Constitution that non-lawyers have been waiting for. At a length of exactly one volume, it’s the perfect size to keep hand More...

Meese: Criminal Trials Inappropriate for Terrorists

Heritage Foundation fellow and former Attorney General Ed Meese III on the decision by current Attorney General Eric Holder to put 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and five other terrorists on tr More...

We Still Hold These Truths Is #2 Washington Post Bestseller

Congratulations to our Heritage colleague Matthew Spalding, whose book We Still Hold These Truths: Rediscovering Our Principles, Reclaiming Our Future is number two in nonfiction on the Washington Pos More...

440 Phantom Congressional Districts Get $6.4 Billion According to Recovery.gov

The government’s Web site that is supposed to tell taxpayers how their stimulus dollars are being spent, and which spends $84 million per year to do so, shows that $6.4 billion of the stimulus has bee More...

Washington Examiner: At Least 10 Percent of Jobs Saved or Created Are Bogus

President Obama’s claim that the stimulus bill has “saved or created” 640,000 jobs is inflated by at least 75,000 jobs, according to the Washington Examiner’s compilation of news reports. The count, h More...

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START Follow-On Treaty Could Interfere with Conventional Strike Systems

Source: The Heritage Foundation

The Obama Administration is currently rushing to establish a treaty to succeed the expiring Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START). Early indications are that this new agreement will limit U.S. options to field conventionally armed missiles—something Congress More...

Mandating Health Insurance Exceeds Congressional Authority

Source: Washington Legal Foundation

Over the past months some members of Congress have released a bewildering array of proposals for national health care reform, one of which, HB 3962, recently passed the House of Representatives. Those proposals have run the gamut of “public options,” state and More...

The Citizen’s Constitution: An Annotated Guide

Source: Basic Books

Pocket versions of the Constitution of the United States of America abound, as do multi-volume commentaries, scholarly histories of its writing, and political posturings of various clauses. But what if you want a delightfully quick, witty, and readable referen More...

Aiming for Liberty: The Past, Present, and Future of Freedom and Self-Defense

Source: Merril Press

This book covers topics ranging from the origins of the Washington, DC gun ban to the Heller decision. Included are the genesis of modern American gun control, the KKK, the true anti-gun agenda, the deceptions and errors used to promote anti-gun laws, and a ho More...

Electricity Restructuring: The Texas Story

Source: American Enterprise Institute

In the early 1990s, the U.S. electricity industry was plagued by cost overruns and stagnant productivity. Many states turned to deregulation to promote innovation and cut costs, a strategy that had worked for the telecommunications, trucking, natural gas, and More...

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