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2009 Newsletter Archive
- The Senate health care bill: no improvement
November 20, 2009
Congress has outdone itself. On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled a health care bill weighing in at 2,074 pages, a new record. A vote on the bill is expected Saturday.
- Putting one-fifth of America on welfare
November 17, 2009
The Left's health care "reform" plan will dramatically expand eligibility for Medicaid, a poorly-functioning program created in the 1960s to help low-income families.
- Conservative Comeback
November 6, 2009
Tuesday was a big day for conservatives. The landslide victories of gubernatorial candidates Bob McDonnell in Virginia and Chris Christie in New Jersey, plus Maine referendum upholding marriage as a union between a man and a woman, clearly illustrates that "the state of conservatism is strong," writes Heritage's Conn Carroll in Wednesday's Morning Bell.
- Principles that Offer a Way Forward
November 2, 2009
For more than a century, Progressives have been directly assaulting the unique and timeless principles of America's Founding. In recent years, this attack has grown only more strident.
- How government spending hurts national security
October 30, 2009
America is one of the strongest, wealthiest and freest nations on earth; she is largely in control of her own fate. Therefore, any real threat against America will likely come from within. Today, one of the main internal threats is crushing government debt.
- 'Gigantic, unintelligible, unaffordable, over-regulatory, federal legislation'
October 28, 2009
After 13 days of secret, closed-door negotiations on health care legislation, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced Monday that he and his behind-the-scenes cast -- Senators Chris Dodd (D-MT) and Max Baucus (D-CT), as well as three top administration officials -- have reached an agreement. Unfortunately, Senator Reid did not tell the American people much else.
- First Senate health care vote flops
October 22, 2009
President Obama has repeatedly claimed that America is closer to passing health care reform than ever before. But proponents of big-government health care nevertheless suffered a major setback yesterday when the first Senate floor vote on health care legislation failed with only 47 votes in favor.
- Debunking the Left on global warming
October 20, 2009
More than 6,000 groups in 27 different countries tuned in Sunday to watch The Heritage Foundation's premiere of Not Evil, Just Wrong, a feature-length documentary countering global warming hysteria and explaining the dangerous consequences of the Left's environmental policies.
- The 'bipartisan' big-government health plan
October 15, 2009
Earlier this week, the Senate Finance Committee passed the health care proposal championed by Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT). The 14-9 vote reflects a strong partisan split: Maine's Olympia Snowe was the only Republican to vote for the measure. Nonetheless, the Left now claims the vote as a "high water mark for 'bipartisanship' in health care reform."
