Entrepreneur Catesby Jones will join The Heritage Foundation today at 11:00 a.m. Eastern for a webcast about the dangers of the Internet sales tax.

“Catesby Jones has declared war on  the Internet sales tax,” Heritage’s Rob Bluey explains. ”As president of the 28-year-old clothing company Peace Frogs, his business relies on Internet purchases to stay profitable. Compliance with the so-called Marketplace Fairness Act could put him out of business — or at least create a regulatory compliance nightmare.”

Watch online on The Foundry today at 11:00 a.m. Eastern.

As Heritage Foundation Founder Ed Feulner has always said, it is better to add and multiply the conservative movement than it it to divide and subtract.

This is why for the last 36 years Heritage has hosted the annual Resource Bank meeting: to bring together conservative leaders and organizations from around the country and around the world. Attendees will talk strategy, share tactics and best practices, and work to strengthen the movement.

This year’s meeting kicks off next Wednesday in Orlando. Highlights include: Continue Reading »

Late last year, while conservatives were still coming to terms with the re-election of President Obama, something remarkable happened in Michigan. A state that is synonymous with Big Labor enacted a right-to-work law.

Governor Rick Snyder (R-MI) and Republican lawmakers had just witnessed the overwhelming rejection of a union-backed measure at the ballot box in November. Fearing the state was losing jobs to states with more friendly business climates — and workers could also lose freedoms in the workplace — they moved swiftly to make Michigan the 24th right-to-work state in America.

Earlier this week, Heritage hosted Michigan businessman and entrepreneur Dick DeVos, a former candidate for governor and a Heritage member. I sat down with him to talk about how it happened and what lessons conservatives can take away from the victory as they make the case for freedom nationally and in states.

The interview runs about five minutes. It was produced and directed by Patrick Frank. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to watch more Heritage videos.

Cross-posted from The Foundry.

In a new video, Heritage Foundation President-Elect Jim DeMint explains the lessons he learned while growing up in Greenville, SC.

Raised by a single mother, DeMint says he learned that work is a blessing that teaches self-reliance. Through work, he explained, you learn that “I can do anything I want to do if I just work at it.”

Senator Jim DeMint officially joins The Heritage Foundation today, leaving his job in Congress to prepare to become Heritage’s next president in April.

He recently sat down for an interview with Heritage’s Rob Bluey to talk about the power of policy ideas, how conservatives are perceived, and what he sees as the future of the movement.

Tell us in the comments: What do you think of conservatives’ chances for success going forward?

Reps. Justin Amash (R-MI) and Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) spoke today at The Heritage Foundation’s Bloggers Briefing about the fiscal cliff and their removal yesterday from influential House committees.

Amash and Huelskamp have earned 91% and 92%, respectively, on Heritage Action’s conservative legislative scorecard.

Watch the video of their remarks:

Politico reported on the event this afternoon.

Heritage holds the Bloggers Briefing each week as a forum for conservative bloggers.

During a speech this week calling for tax increases on high earners, President Obama urged listeners to explain on Twitter the importance of not raising taxes on middle-income earners using the #My2K hashtag.

The Heritage Foundation immediately jumped into action and purchased a “promoted tweet” explaining why Warren Buffet is wrong to push for tax hikes on the wealthy. As Heritage’s Rob Bluey explains, “So when millions of Twitter users began searching for the #my2k term, our ad was the first thing they saw.”

This disrupted the administration’s messaging and ensured millions were exposed to conservative ideas. Several major news outlets picked up on Heritage’s Twitter efforts: the Wall Street Journal; the Atlantic; National Journal; Reuters; the Chicago Tribune; and PBS.

This is an example of Heritage’s quick, creative and innovative ability to reach out to the general public and promote our principled conservative values. Heritage’s Ericka Andersen told the Wall Street Journal that our success is “a matter of getting on the trends as they emerge, rather than getting on them too late.”

Be sure to follow @Heritage on Twitter.

President Obama again failed to explain during last night’s debate why his administration for weeks refused to admit the terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was, in fact, a terrorist attack.

The Heritage Foundation’s Helle Dale has put together a chronology of key events since the attack, and we have circulated it to the media to focus attention on this important question.

But while the media are now demanding answers about the Obama administration’s misleading story, the president remains evasive in his response. Continue Reading »

A new Matt Damon movie, Promised Land, vilifies American oil and natural gas producers as greedy brutes poisoning American small towns. Aside from it’s blatant omission of many facts, The Heritage Foundation’s Lachlan Markay discovered something interesting about the movie’s funding:

While left-leaning Hollywood often targets supposed environmental evildoers, Promised Land was also produced “in association with” Image Media Abu Dhabi, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Media, according to the preview’s list of credits. A spokesperson with DDA Public Relations, which runs PR for Participant Media, the company that developed the film fund backing Promised Land, confirmed that AD Media is a financier. The company is wholly owned by the government of the UAE.

Why might the U.A.E. decide to fund a movie attacking American energy production?Because, Markay notes, “A strong global market presence for American natural gas could also work to the UAE’s disadvantage. The Arab nation ranks seventh worldwide in proven natural gas reserves.”

Click here to see the trailer to Promised Land.