Jim DeMint, a former senator representing South Carolina, is chairman of the Conservative Partnership Institute.
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Iran is the world’s No. 1 state sponsor of terrorism. Americans agree it should not have a nuclear weapon. President Obama’s Iran deal does not… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
It’s hard to believe what happened in Washington this weekend. The U.S. Senate attached an amendment resurrecting a dead corporate welfare program to the highway… Read More
SocietyCommentary
As we publish the second Index of Culture and Opportunity, I am reminded of the differences between how Washington operates and how real life happens… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The Export-Import Bank is dead. Let’s keep it that way. This hoary relic of the Great Depression has been plagued with corruption and fraud. Its… Read More
SocietyCommentary
A video released last week by the Center for Medical Progress shocked the nation by showing an executive of Planned Parenthood sipping wine and casually… Read More
EconomyCommentary
In the midst of the horrifying allegations that Planned Parenthood has been selling organs of aborted babies, there’s been at least a bit of good… Read More
SocietyCommentary
During our last era of high immigration, remembered now as the “Ellis Island” age, our leaders would use the Fourth of July to stump for… Read More
LawCommentary
Conservatives are reeling after two outrageous decisions last week by the Supreme Court. In one case they reinterpreted Obamacare so that “established by the state”… Read More
Health CareCommentary
This morning, the Supreme Court handed down a decision in the case of King v. Burwell which maintains, contrary to the plain language of the… Read More
EconomyCommentary
When I was first elected to Congress in 1998, South Carolina’s Fourth Congressional District was a reliably protectionist vote. In the words of former Sen…. Read More
