Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla) spoke on the need of better leadership for America.

From The Heritage Foundation, I’m Ernest Istook. In a nationwide coordinated effort, 43 Catholic institutions simultaneously filed a dozen lawsuits against the Obama Administration, contesting the requirement that they provide birth control and abortion-inducing drugs to their employees, in violation of Catholic doctrine. Among these are the University of Notre…

From The Heritage Foundation, I’m Ernest Istook. Florida public schools have a problem. Two-thirds of the students failed their statewide writing tests. So the state lowered the passing grade after the fact so fewer students would flunk. Those in 4th, 8th and 10th grade statewide are given the writing test….

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) questioned the U.S. State Department’s decision to award a travel visa to Mariela Castro Espin, the niece of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

From The Heritage Foundation, I’m Ernest Istook. It has been 1,114 days since we had a federal budget. Meantime, deficits continue to exceed a trillion dollars a year. The U.S. Senate is the culprit. This week Senators voted on four proposals offered by Republicans. None got more than 42 votes. Democrats…

From The Heritage Foundation, I’m Ernest Istook. What if you buy a hamburger, but somebody takes a big bite before you can dig in? That’s like the big tax bites that will get even worse in January. It’s even tougher when many years of work are lumped into one big payoff,…

From The Heritage Foundation, I’m Ernest Istook. Innocent behavior has become a crime in America. People who did nothing wrong still get punished. And it’s all over bureaucracy. Even if you do everything right, you get the blame if your seller didn’t get all the overseas red tape right. Four men…

From The Heritage Foundation, I’m Ernest Istook. Conservatives are simpletons with a mental defect. That claim is offensive, odious, obnoxious and downright deranged. But it’s the thesis of a book that liberals are buying up, written by Chris Mooney, called “The Republican Brain.” He claims it’s science, not bias; that…

President of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers Reggie Littlejohn called on State Secretary Hilary Clinton and President Obama to aid recently escaped blind, human rights activist Chen Guangcheng.

Crony capitalism has turned into corruption of the free enterprise system, and it’s about to get worse…