Keyword: bloggersbriefing
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Stan Evans @ Bloggers Briefing Malcolm A. Kline, December 15, 2009 At the Heritage Foundation blogger’s briefing from 12-1 on December 15, 2009, M. Stanton Evans will be giving a few remarks on Voodoo Anyone? How to Understand Economics Without Really Trying. Evans wrote the forward to Accuracy in Academia’s first textbook by the late Christopher T. Warden and had served as a friend and mentor to him. “This is a book that’s long been needed—and is needed nowadays more than ever,” Evans wrote in the forward. “‘Economics for journalists’ may sound like a dry, academic subject, but as recent...
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Minority Raises Its Profile Allie Winegar Duzett, November 2, 2009 Yet another eloquent conservative spokesman whom media outlets can’t seem to find spoke at the Bloggers’ Briefing at the Heritage Foundation last week. “For those of you who want to know, I’m not going to be on Dancing with the Stars,” Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX) said, laughing about his relationship with former U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay at a recent Heritage Foundation Bloggers’ Briefing. “It’s been an interesting ten months,” Rep. Olson began, referring to the myriad of legislation the Obama administration has proposed: health care, cap and trade, et cetera....
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Not About the Money by: Alana Goodman, August 07, 2009 Opponents of free-market economics have often portrayed capitalists as greedy money-grubbers, but one conservative think tank is arguing that free enterprise is the foundation of a virtuous and moral society. “Taxation is about fairness and freedom, it’s not about money,” said American Enterprise Institute (AEI) President Arthur Brooks at the Heritage Foundation on August 4th. “You can raise my taxes another five points. I’m not going to like it, but my kids are not going to go without shoes. What’s going to offend me is it’s going to make me...
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In Sickness and In Wealth by: Mytheos Holt, July 20, 2009 Last Tuesday, at the weekly bloggers’ briefing hosted by the Heritage Foundation, Reps. John Shadegg (R-AZ) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) unveiled their vision of substantive health care reform as a competing model to use against the currently stalled Democratic version. In the process, Reps. Shadegg and Blackburn exposed some little-known facts about previous liberal experiments with health care, and detailed a straightforward, common-sensical set of answers for the oft-cited rising prices. In their respective talks, Reps. Shadegg and Blackburn focused on different but complimentary elements of the Republican argument...
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Health Care Crossroads by: Anthony Kang, June 29, 2009 Citing the recent failure of a Republican-supported amendment which, among, other things, outlaws cost-analysis or “placing a dollar amount on a person’s life out of rationing purposes as another indication of where this nation’s headed to with President Obama,” U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) advised Bloggers Briefing attendees at the Heritage Foundation on June 23 that networking activism and education by conservative bloggers has never been quite as imperative. Furthermore, the Senator from Texas expounded upon how technology may be the decisive factor for 2010 election outcomes. Recalling the time when...
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Bloggers Get Budget Briefing by: Brittany Fortier, June 08, 2009 At the weekly bloggers meeting held at the Heritage Foundation, Patients United Now unveiled a new video ad featuring Shona Holmes, a Canadian Citizen who was diagnosed with a brain tumor and told she would have to wait six months to obtain the necessary surgery to remove the tumor in her home country. Holmes opted to have the surgery done in the United States and claims that the decision saved her life. This video ad can be viewed on the organization’s website, www.PatientsUnitedNow.com. “This is crunch time on stopping the...
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