This is the last of our four-part series on Occupy Wall Street, transcribed from a recent Heritage Foundation event on the movement. In part four, Eric Teetsel, executive director of the Manhattan Declaration, explains why he’s hopeful about the Occupy movement. Teetsel believes some Occupiers, particularly young members of the movement, are headed in the right direction but need a helping hand on issues such as free enterprise, individual liberty, the rule of law and moral realism. Part 4: Capitalist Evangelism I was talking to my friend about this event … More
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Liberals are bent on making Hispanics, the fastest growing demographic, supporters of big government. Unfortunately, a recent poll by FOX News Latino reveals that liberals are succeeding. According to the poll, President Obama has a six-to-one advantage against his Republican rivals among Hispanics. And yet, here at The Heritage Foundation, we refuse to believe that Hispanics are a monolithic group. What’s missing in the Hispanic community is policy content and research grounded in liberty. Many Hispanics have not made the connection that economic freedom, a strong national defense and a … More
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By Christopher Preble
As has become an annual tradition, my colleague Charles Zakaib has sifted through the data from the latest edition of the International Institute for Strategic Studies’ The Military Balance and created several illuminating charts. They are enclosed below and show U.S. security spending as a share of the global total, U.S. per capita spending as [...]
More Evidence that Uncle Sam Is Uncle Sucker (but U.S. Voters Aren’t) is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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