A crazy, crazy debate between Heritage's Ariel Cohen and ANSWER's Brian Becker, who appears to self-destruct on-air.

BECKER: I would like to answer the question. Do I consider Hezbollah a terrorist organization? The answer is no.

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Posted at 9:59 AM in Heritage in the News, Middle East by Andrew Grossman [?] | Permalink

David John, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation and an expert on flood insurance, said those expansions will "likely result in more losses and more deficits in the future." He said the reforms offered by the bill are not enough to make it self-supporting, much less pay off its debts.

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Posted at 8:58 AM in Retirement & Social Security, Heritage in the News by Brian Phillips [?] | Permalink

Nobles: Robert Rector, a Heritage Foundation fellow whose research exposed the Senate's immigration "reform" bill.

In an immigration debate long on demogoguery, short on honesty, its end occasions a word or two about the latter.

Top honors go to Mr. Rector, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. It was Mr. Rector who, while the "world's greatest deliberative body" staged its sideshow, published two reports on the bill's consequences. First, fiscally, the bill "if enacted, would be the largest expansion of the welfare state in 35 years," he found. "The long-term cost of government benefits to the parents of 10 million recipients of amnesty could be $30 billion per year or more."

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The funny thing about Rector's recent research on the Senate's immigration legislation is that his most cited contributions came directly from a close reading of the bill--something that no Senator undertook, apparently.

Our most recent experience, with the immigration bill currently on the table, has been a real shocker. This time, Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation has read the bill, every passage, before passage. He survived the ordeal, bleary of eye but clear of vision. And what a tale he has brought back, in these pages and on talk radio. The so-called illegal immigration bill turns out to be a sheep in wolf’s clothing: it’s mostly about legal immigration. It includes provisions that were set to quintuple our annual crop of new citizens … without any national discussion beforehand.

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Posted at 12:26 PM in Immigration & Borders, Heritage in the News by Andrew Grossman [?] | Permalink

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