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This Week in Washington: Hawaiian Separatism, Environmentalism Run Amok, and Media Regulation

Related:• The Native Hawaiian Reorganization Act, The Heritage Foundation, May 2, 2007• Green Gone Wild: Elevating Nature Above Human Rights, Heritage event, May 13, 2008• The FCC’s Cross-Ownership Ru More...

Morning Brief

THE BALLOT BOX SECURITY BATTLE is heating up. Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court ruled that an Indiana law requiring voters to present a photo ID before voting was upheld. This week, Missouri lawmakers More...

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We are happy to consider submissions to InsiderOnline’s Conservative Calendar. We intend the calendar as a service to the conservative public policy community. We are looking for events that seek to e More...

The Coming Week – Monday, May 12, 2008

Some events that caught our eye: Tuesday• FIND OUT which federal agencies do the best job of giving citizens and elected leaders the information they need to make informed funding and policy decisio More...

Heritage on Video

Heritage in Focus: Congress should expand H-1B visas so that businesses can hire the skilled workers they need. At Heritage: The Supreme Allied Commander Europe delivered a special address. … More...

Thank Goodness Global Warming Came Along—Just in Time to Help Us Fix the Economy!

Can we tax, spend, and regulate our way to prosperity? Some say we can—if the taxing, spending, and regulating help fight global warming. North Carolina’s legislators are considering a package of 56 More...

Where Is the Party for Liberty?

Writing in National Review today, The Heritage Foundation’s Michael Franc observes that Democrats have captured constituencies that might have been more disposed to favor limited government policies, More...

What’s Missing from the Education Equation

By David Talbot The federal No Child Left Behind program is six years into its allotted 12 for bringing all children to “at a minimum, proficiency on challenging State academic standards and academic More...

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Just War and Endgame Objectives in Iraq

Source: The Heritage Foundation

The calls for withdrawal we’ve heard since 2003 are symptomatic of political thinking tempted to regard military conflict as always at odds with peace, but let’s be clear about what the just war the¬ory suggests: To withdraw American troops now is to commit ot More...

The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom

Source: The Cato Institute

Alexander Hamilton wrote that “the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution.” If only that were true. The Founding Fathers wanted the judicial branch to serve as a check on the More...

The Distributional Impact of Windfall Profits Taxes and a Gas Tax Holiday

Source: The Tax Foundation

In the short run, the owners of oil companies would get hit by the windfall profits tax and would simultaneously benefit from the gas tax holiday, which would lead to a net wash for nearly all families. More...

Communicating with the World of Islam

Source: The Hoover Institution

Western broadcasts had a remarkable impact in the USSR and Eastern Europe during the Cold War reaching both mass audiences and key elites. The effectiveness of these broadcasts was clearly attested to by the massive resources the communist regimes spent in try More...

Climate Change and the Uncomfortable Middle Ground: The Geoengineering and “No Regrets” Policy Alternative

Source: The Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy

“Climate Change” has occasioned the most fractious, fractured and vituperatively caustic international science and policy debate in recorded history. As localities, states and nations sharpen their legislative proposals on how best to address global warming an More...

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