From The Heritage Foundation, I’m Ernest Istook. There’s a push to make transportation a higher priority in campaigns and elections. Without robust transportation people and goods can’t get anywhere. But highway money is tight because road-building costs are increased by extreme environmental restrictions plus overblown labor laws. And huge chunks of fuel taxes don’t go to [...]
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It’s Time To End Those Phony “Hate Group” Labels
From The Heritage Foundation, I’m Ernest Istook. The label “hate group” is being hurled against those who support traditional values, like keeping marriage only between a man and a woman. Those reckless labels can be dangerous. This week an armed man–who volunteers on behalf of same-sex rights–brought a gun, 50 rounds of ammunition, and 15 [...]
Group Complains That Security Leaks Could Cost Lives
From The Heritage Foundation, I’m Ernest Istook. Former intelligence operatives have issued a video and also plan TV ads, complaining about national security leaks in the Obama Administration. As one of them says, “Mr. President, you did not kill Osama bin Laden. America did. The work that the American military has done killed Osama bin Laden. [...]
You Can’t Have It Both Ways
From The Heritage Foundation, I’m Ernest Istook. Has Medicare been robbed to pay the huge costs of Obamacare? Absolutely yes, Obamacare takes hundreds of billions of dollars out of Medicare and spends it on Obamacare instead. That will hasten Medicare’s bankruptcy by several years, perhaps happening just four years from now instead of twelve years from [...]
Ryan Choice Is A Generational Move
From The Heritage Foundation, I’m Ernest Istook. Four years ago Barack Obama appealed to young voters, promising hope, change, vision–which turned out to be just fancy wrapping for a package of big-government liberalism. Now Mitt Romney’s pick of 42-year-old Paul Ryan as a running mate is another nod to a younger generation. Ryan is 10 [...]
Teenage Girls Set A Good Example For America
From The Heritage Foundation, I’m Ernest Istook. We can learn a lot from several teenage girls. All of us can improve our behavior, including the politicians who are behaving so badly. But in the Olympics our teenage gymnasts set an example that went far beyond athletic excellence. In winning they were exciting but gracious. Yet [...]
Welfare Reform Word Games
From The Heritage Foundation, I’m Ernest Istook. Mitt Romney says President Obama is dismantling the welfare reform law passed in 1996, by undercutting its requirements that recipients should work for what they receive. The White House says that work remains required. How can people figure out who’s right? The answer is simple: Each side means something [...]
Food Fight Over Free Speech
From The Heritage Foundation, I’m Ernest Istook. We’ve got a food fight over our Constitutional right to free speech. Some advocates of same-sex marriage consider it intolerant if you disagree with them. Several city officials have threatened the right of Chick-fil-a to do business unless it kow-tows and censors the opinions of company officers. Those public [...]
Unions Allege The Public Is Being Duped About Immigration
From The Heritage Foundation, I’m Ernest Istook. The Obama Administration is being accused of deceiving us about border security. The accusations come from the heads of the unions that represent Border Patrol agents and Immigration agents. They claim that almost any illegal immigrant can avoid arrest by claiming to be a “Dreamer”–one of the million illegal [...]
Shipping Jobs Overseas
From The Heritage Foundation, I’m Ernest Istook. America’s economy limps along while politicians fight about who’s responsible. Part of the debate is over outsourcing—having work done overseas rather than in the U.S. Businesses often want to escape our high taxes and crushing regulations, and take advantage of lower wages elsewhere. But now we learn that [...]
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