Rep Renee Ellmers on the Debt Ceiling Crisis

"We are engaged in a war on spending that started years before this crisis and will be waged for years to come," writes Congresswoman Renee Ellmers, who was a guest speaker at the Institute's monthly Conservative Women's Network luncheon recently. She offers her perspective on the debt ceiling crisis and the current debate before Congress in a Daily Caller article today.

Could Millennials be the Next 'Greatest Generation'?

Since we work with young college-age women, we tend to follow polls and trends of the 18 to 30 age group. Recent articles suggest those under age 30 — the Millennial generation — are facing tough times, and it's causing them to undergo the kind of philosophical shift that often occurs when reality overwhelms ideals. Could the tough times forge the Millennials into the next 'greatest generation'?

Economics, National Defense Displace Liberals' So-Called "Women's Issues"

Renowned pollster Kellyanne Conway, founder and president of the polling company/WomanTrend, spoke to a packed auditorium of women at the monthly Conservative Women’s Network on July 15th at the Heritage Foundation about just how apparent it has become that traditional liberal “women’s issues” continue to decline as fiscal issues rise. Women all over the country are unshackling the chains of liberal feminism and embracing their femininity in their drive to build a more optimistic America for their children and grandchildren.

The US Debt in an Easy-to-Understand Graphic

Most of us have a tough time understanding how enormous the US debt has grown in the last few years. One group cuts through the fog with a graphic that visualizes it.

"If you live in USA this is also your personal credit card bill; you are responsible along with everyone else to pay this back," writes the group. "The citizens of USA created the U.S. Government to serve them, this is what the U.S. Government has done while serving The People." Check it out if you dare.

Vermont's Healthcare Law: An Obamacare Case Study

"Vermont became the toast of liberals recently when its governor signed what has been billed as the nation's first single-payer health care law," writes Sally Pipes, a national health care expert. The state's law is a good Obamacare case study, since it "does little more than what's already required under Obamacare." But Vermont's government-run health care plan isn't living up to utopian promises. Rather it's "a program in which everything is free at the point of consumption but nothing much of value is available." Read how and why.

A Balanced Budget Amendment's Virtues

Diana Furchtgott-Roth explains why a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution offers a promising path to restoring national economic self-discipline, and how it might be structured to rein in profligate federal government spending. Read it here.

Poll: Young Hispanics Favor Conservative Economic Strategies

The Washington Examiner's Beltway Confidential blog cites an interesting survey, by Kellyanne Conway's thepollingcompany/WomanTrends, of 18- to 29-year-old Hispanics indicating nearly 7 in 10 prefer conservative strategies to fix America's fiscal problems.

"Once Higher Taxes are on the Table, Everything Else Comes Off"

Eight states have proven it's possible to balance big deficit budgets without raising taxes. Unfortunately for the country, the Obama Administration ignores these states as it pursues a spend-and-tax-everyone plan.

Seven of these states are led by conservatives: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Indiana, Maine, Texas and Florida. All it took, writes Frank Donatelli, was a willingness "to make tough choices and tell the truth to voters." The 8th state is New York, led by liberal Governor Andrew Cuomo:

Lopez: "Forget You, Feminism"

National Review's Kathryn Jean Lopez posted a thoroughly enjoyable article poking a bit of fun at the Left's "favored f-word of faux liberation."

After decades of insistence that women have “equal rights” even when that really means special rights to ensure that the numbers of women in executive and other jobs are what a good redistributionist would like — never mind the choices women themselves make — it appears that the women who are on the rise in electoral politics are not exactly the type of women that longtime “Woman for President” campaigners had in mind.

Why NOW Should Change its Name

Kayla Westbrook, a Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute student activist at Florida State University, shares her experience at NOW's annual conference:

The NOW National Conference was held in Tampa last weekend, and it confirmed my belief, if confirmation were needed, that the National Organization for Women doesn't really promote women (especially not conservative ones), but rather uses them as a facade for a progressive agenda. Read the rest at National Review Online...

Happy Independence Day, America!

The nation's Founding Fathers fought for - and succeeded in - establishing an alternative, revolutionary idea of governance: one that made the individual master, and government his servant. Every generation since has faced the same battle: to go the way of the rest of the world, or to remain exceptional in the world. As Marco Rubio articulates so well, "It's now our turn" ...

Did Feminism Really Free Women?

“Women are from Venus, men are from Hell” – these were the words used by Christina Hoff Sommers, moderating a Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute panel, to describe the sort of ‘textbooks’ she was required to teach from as a college philosophy professor. A self-confessed former liberal, Sommers began the conversion to more conservative ideas after being “excommunicated” from the feminist movement for attempting to balance the coursework in her classes. By offering her students some alternatives to radical feminism, Sommers put herself squarely in the cross hairs of the single-minded mentality of the Left. This is an all-too-familiar experience for conservative students speaking out on their college campuses but, according to Sommers, the tide is changing. The veil is being lifted on the liberal feminist lies and conservative women are leading the fight.

Sommers was joined by Hudson Institute senior fellow economist Diana Furchtgott-Roth, healthcare expert and Galen Institute president Grace-Marie Turner, and National Review Online editor Kathryn Jean Lopez, whose recent article inspired this panel entitled “Freedom from Feminism.”