We’re Number Two
The U.S. was the world’s number one economy prior to World War II, but it took off bigtime after the war and there has not been a day of my long life in which we were not number one—until now.
Tagged: Republican Party
Featured · Government · Politics
Yes, Eric Cantor, There is a Virginia
It seems fitting that after such a momentous political evening, the Washington, D.C. area woke early this morning to the thundercrack of a summer storm, with a furious arrival and just as quickly faded and gone. The crushing and unexpected defeat of Eric Cantor – the first defeat of a sitting House Majority leader since 1899, which also happens to be the creation of the position – is sending ripples through a Republican Party which will have ramifications for this cycle and beyond.
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The Tea Party’s Coming Rorschach Moment
The prevailing Beltway view is that the GOP has corralled the Tea Party, domesticated it without giving it a real seat at the table. But I still think they misunderstand who’s locked in with whom.
Economics · Featured · Politics · Speaker Series
Matt Kibbe at Heartland: Don’t Hurt People and Don’t Take Their Stuff
Matt Kibbe: The individual has to protect their liberty by taking responsibility and working to stand up to the government. “The government goes to those who show up,” he said. “If we don’t show up, the power goes to those who do, who may corrupt the power. We have to show up.”
Featured · Government · Liberty · Politics · Random
Looking Into My 2014 Crystal Ball
Pundits are expected to make predictions for the year ahead and far be it for me to avoid what, generally speaking, depends on who is making them. Major trends are already in place and easy to predict as they proceed, but it is always unknown events that upend predictions. Mother Nature and perpetrators of evil can always be counted upon to provide them.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
Two and a Half Cheers for Ryan-Murray
Calling the Ryan-Murray budget deal “A Huge Republican Cave-In” is not accurate.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Government · Politics · Regulation
The Right Response To Obama’s Inequality Concern Trolling
First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women.
10 Lessons For Republicans From Virginia
Takeaways from Ken Cuccinelli and Chris Christie.
Economics · Featured · Liberty · Politics
Let Freedom Work: Donald J. Devine Addressing Solutions to America’s Halting Democracy
America is in desperate need for the increasingly polarized Republican Party to unite on the foundation created by the Founding Fathers to promote the morality of the Constitution.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
Heartland’s Domenech on MSNBC Talking Boehner, Debt Ceiling Fight
Benjamin Domenech on the Republican leader’s next move.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Health Care · Liberty · Politics
Thank You, Speaker Boehner
These anti-growth policies all explain why President Obama has suffered the worst recovery from a recession of any president since the Great Depression, 75 years ago! What is needed to restore booming American economic growth and prosperity is to reverse all of these policies with pro-growth policies.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
The Path Forward for Conservative Reform
The goals of limited government, fiscal responsibility, traditional values, and strong defense have been an ever-present litany of bullet points from Republican politicians – but talking about limited government and actually delivering on it are two very different things.
Featured · Legal Affairs · Liberty · Random
The New Enemies List
The firestorm around the White House is only going to grow with the knowledge that the administration targeted Fox News’ reporter James Rosen for doing nothing more than being a reporter.[…]
The Lessons of Iraq and Obamacare
With the opening of the George W. Bush Library this week in Texas, plenty of journalists are writing long think-pieces about the man and his legacy, which basically amount to[…]
Budgets/Taxes · Education · Politics
The Right Needs an ETSY Earner Agenda
The scene at CPAC was of a movement at a point of transition – the old Reagan coalition doing battle with a new more libertarian rising generation. Whenever great transitions come, the[…]
Good Riddance to the Buckley Rule
The problem with the Buckley Rule is that it requires you to evaluate two attributes – ideology and electability – when at least one and occasionally both are relative measures.[…]
Peggy Noonan Is Wrong, Again
In a blog I used to write for regularly before joining Heartland, I used to specialize in take-downs of Peggy Noonan. Bless her heart, but she never really got Barack Obama, and[…]
NEWS: The Heartlander- Pennsylvania Governor Reinstitutes State Park, Forest Fracking Ban March 4, 2015
- Where to Follow King v. Burwell At March 4, 2015
- Fracking Wins Again in Colorado March 3, 2015
- All King v. Burwell, All the Time March 3, 2015
- Oregon Lawmaker Proposes Licensing Regulations for Music Therapists March 3, 2015
Heartland on YouTube
The Climate Change Awards
- Readable Links
- The Crucifixion of Dr. Wei-Hock Soon - Breitbart
- Dr. Wei-Hock Soon's Peers Fire Back Against Global Warming Witch Hunt - Breitbart
- Defending Dr. Willie Soon at Breitbart
- Government Tells Gruber Lie to the Supreme Court
- From Internet to Obamanet
- NYT Smears Scientist Willie Soon for Telling the Truth About 'Global Warming' - Breitbart
- FCC's Net Neutrality Proposal Signals the End of an Open Internet - US News
