Patricia White says the District of Columbia government has fined her eight times for a total of $2,000 for throwing away her cat litter. White cuts up newspaper and junk mail and uses it as cat litter. D.C. officials prowling through her garbage found the paper and told her it should be tossed in her recycling bin.
The Minneapolis City Council agreed to pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a woman who had a “flash bang” grenade explode under her legs during a police raid. Rickla Russell suffered third- and fourth-degree burns requiring skin grafts. Police were searching for drugs and weapons and found neither. None of the officers involved in the raid were dis […]
Marilyn Louie's newsstand has stood in the same spot in New York City's Chinatown for 35 years. But city officials have just discovered it is three inches too close to the building it faces. They say they are going to tear it down and she'll have to move. But Louie says the locations they have offered her are already saturated with stores sell […]
Fortunately the climate models got all their major predictions wrong. Why? Every serious skeptical scientist has been consistently saying essentially the same thing for over 20 years, yet most people have never heard the message. Here it is, put simply enough for any lay reader willing to pay attention.
Thomas DiLorenzo's 5-week online Mises Academy course on "The Political Economy of War" will pierce through the dense fog of relentless war propaganda.
Today we have access to vast amount of information at the click of mouse but are also faced with those who seek to steal secrets, disable defenses, or otherwise use the Internet for their own purposes. Heritage’s James Carafano addresses these threats in his new book, Wiki at War: “The war for winning dominance over social networks and using that dominance t […]
More than 2,500 Christian leaders have signed a letter opposing Obamcare’s anti-conscience mandate. The letter’s release adds to the most recent furor over the rule’s blatant violation of religious liberty and decries the mandate’s coercion of religious employers to subsidize abortion-inducing drugs, contraceptives, and sterilization regardless of moral or r […]
In his State of the Union address, President Obama declared that “America is back.” Examining Obama’s foreign policy efforts, however, this statement seems doubtful. To better understand Obama’s foreign policy, Heritage hosted a panel discussion with Kim Holmes, Mark Thiessen, and Clifford May. As Holmes has previously written, Obama defines America as just […]
A plan by Washington state's Medicaid agency to stop paying for certain emergency-room visits is prompting pushback from hospitals and doctors, who say they will be stuck with unpaid bills.
New York City released data about teachers' ability to boost student test scores—a powerful new tool that other school districts in the U.S. could emulate. Teachers unions have opposed releasing such information.
Federal prosecutors are seeking records, computer hard drives and documents related to ex-Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, the university and the charity Sandusky founded.