Heritage Foundation

  • President Obama has asked Congress to trim 121 federal programs, saving $17-billion dollars in the coming budget year. But critics contend that’s just a drop-in-the bucket, since the total budget exceeds $3-trillion dollars. Brian Riedl…

    May 08, 2009
  • The tactical and strategic lessons learned from Iraq form the basis of a new book by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. Stuart Bowen talked about that book “Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience”…

    May 06, 2009
  • The White House has named the nation’s first “border czar.” Former federal prosecutor Alan Bersin was named to the post yesterday. James Carafano is an expert in homeland security and defense at the Heritage Foundation.…

    April 16, 2009
  • Upheaval on the southwest border of the US has been getting more attention. Violence that once was limited to the Mexican side of the border is washing over into the US, and Arizona is having…

    March 27, 2009
  • President Obama ordered the closing of the Guantanamo Bay Prison within a year. The president signed an executive order today directing the CIA to stop holding terrorism suspects for months and years and to now…

    January 22, 2009