January 26, 2012 5:03 pm ET filed under Blog
The Right's Capital Gains Misdirection Campaign
January 24, 2012 2:30 pm ET filed under Blog
Heritage Foundation Exploits Tragic "Gendercide" To Push Anti-Choice Message
January 13, 2012 6:17 pm ET filed under Blog
Heritage Can't Spin Away Growing Concern About Wealth Distribution
December 19, 2011 3:15 pm ET filed under Blog
Lies, Damn Lies, And The Heritage Foundation
November 21, 2011 2:04 pm ET filed under Blog
The First Rule Of The One Percent Is Do Not Talk About The One Percent
November 15, 2011 5:10 pm ET filed under Blog
Heritage Foundation Argues Income Inequality Is A Good Thing
November 07, 2011 4:16 pm ET filed under Blog
High Taxes Are Not Crushing McDonald's Profits
September 09, 2011 9:35 am ET filed under Fact Check
Grace-Marie Turner Distorts Data About Health Care Law's Impact On Job Creation
Last week, Grace-Marie Turner, founder and president of the conservative Galen Institute, penned an op-ed in which she claimed that repealing the health care law would create jobs. She backs this claim up by twisting statistics from anti-health care reform groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Heritage Foundation and the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) to fit her goal of proving that the law is discouraging hiring and increasing job losses. But the fact remains that despite the often repeated claim that "the health law is killing jobs," health care employment has grown over the past year and repealing the law would actually reduce employment.
August 24, 2011 12:16 pm ET filed under Blog
Heritage Foundation Complains That DOJ's Civil Rights Lawyers Believe In "Human Rights"
August 18, 2011 2:19 pm ET filed under Blog
Heritage's Refrigerator-Based Dismissal Of Poverty Wrongly Defines "Typical" Poor Families
June 30, 2011 12:01 pm ET filed under Blog
Heritage Lies About Origin Of Tax Breaks For Jets
June 29, 2011 6:05 pm ET filed under Blog
Heritage Foundation Exploits Tragedy In Mexico To Warn Of "Mass Amnesty"
June 23, 2011 2:25 pm ET filed under Blog
Heritage Foundation Clings To Myths To Defend Bush Tax Cuts
June 23, 2011 11:34 am ET filed under Fact Check
Heritage Foundation Clings To Myths To Defend Bush Tax Cuts
On the Heritage Foundation's Foundry blog, Mike Gonzalez, Heritage's resident Bush hagiographer, wrote a highly misleading post defending lower tax rates for the very wealthy. It's almost impossible to defend President George W. Bush's economic policies without being at least somewhat dishonest, which Gonzalez accomplishes by claiming that the fantastical idea that tax cuts "pay for themselves" is actually a straw man set up by mischievous liberals. According to Gonzalez, the Bush Administration actually "went out of their way" to make it clear that their tax cut packages were not expected to pay for themselves. The fact, however, is that time and time again, President George W. Bush and others in his administration asserted that cutting taxes increases revenue, and the Heritage Foundation itself has spread that dishonest claim. He went on to suggest that cutting taxes also spurs growth, and that the Bush tax cuts themselves helped create millions of jobs. Both claims are undermined by data on jobs and the economy that indicate Bush's tenure to be a disaster for both economic growth and employment.
May 26, 2011 2:37 pm ET filed under Blog
Heritage Gives Magical Tax Cuts Credit For Economic Growth That Preceded Them
May 16, 2011 1:25 pm ET filed under Blog
Heritage Foundation: GOP Budget Doesn't Cut Taxes, It Just Reduces Tax Rates
April 06, 2011 4:50 pm ET filed under Blog
Even House GOP Leaders Don't Take House GOP Budget Projections Seriously
April 01, 2011 1:59 pm ET filed under Blog
Does The Heritage Foundation Support Outsourcing Or Not?
March 29, 2011 5:17 pm ET filed under Blog
Heritage Foundation Pretends To Stand Up For The Poor
February 06, 2011 9:49 am ET filed under Blog
Heritage Foundation Celebrates Reagan's Birthday By Bashing Medicare
January 26, 2011 2:27 pm ET filed under Blog
Rep. Cantor's Confused Definition Of "Economic Freedom"
January 26, 2011 10:27 am ET filed under Blog
Pretending To Answer Constituents, Reps Issa. & McCarthy Respond To Heritage Foundation Instead
January 25, 2011 9:58 am ET filed under Blog
Rep. Bachmann Lifts Her Massive Budget Cuts From Heritage Foundation
January 14, 2011 12:35 pm ET filed under Blog
Does The Heritage Foundation Want The U.S. To Be More Socialist?
January 06, 2011 4:34 pm ET filed under Blog
Heritage Foundation Moves Closer To Fringe, Drops Out Of CPAC
January 05, 2011 12:11 pm ET filed under Fact Check
Sen. Alexander's Deeply Dishonest Filibuster Reform Speech
At a Heritage Foundation event yesterday, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) gave a speech decrying Democratic attempts to change the filibuster rules. The speech was shot through with falsehoods, such as the claim that Democrats are trying to eliminate minority rights in the Senate because they lost an election. In fact, the reform proposals preserve the filibuster, but require obstructionists to actually hold the floor continuously to prevent a bill's consideration. Similarly, Alexander claimed that Democrats have invented the simple majority vote for rules changes out of thin air, but the practice is based in the Constitution and was used as early as 1917 — and Republicans argued for the procedure in 2005. Later, Alexander disingenuously quoted the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV). Byrd condemned GOP filibusters, but Alexander simply skipped that part of Byrd's speech. Most egregious among Alexander's falsehoods, he claimed that Democrats are "the real party of no," despite the fact that filibusters have doubled since Republicans lost control of the Senate.
November 19, 2010 1:22 pm ET filed under Blog
Heritage Foundation Decries The "Washington Establishment"
October 13, 2010 1:25 pm ET filed under Blog
Heritage Foundation Analyst Makes Up Statistics (Updated)
