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President Trump has chosen leaders from Congress and industry — like former Exxon executive Rex W. Tillerson — for senior national security positions. (Associated Press)

Trump campaign supporters during election snubbed for Pentagon, State Department, national security

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Teen abstinence is up even as weekly religious attendance down

By Ed Feulner

Former South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Oxon Hill, Md., on Feb. 23, 2017. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Jim DeMint joins Convention of States Project

By Sally Persons - The Washington Times

Former South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Oxon Hill, Md., on Feb. 23, 2017. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Heritage, key Trump White House ally, overthrows leader

By JULIE BYKOWICZ - Associated Press

Then-Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint, a former South Carolina senator, addresses a forum at the organization in 2014. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Jim DeMint resigns as president of The Heritage Foundation, Ed Feulner to return as interim

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Heritage Foundation flooded with protesters; think tank blasts ‘groups connected to George Soros’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Along with music, some how-to advice at a Jazz Fest event

Associated Press

Dressed as the "Real Chicken Don" Shawn Frye joins others in calling for President Donald Trump to release his tax returns, Wednesday, April 12, 2017, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. Tax March Sacramento activists are planning to join others in a protest on Tax Day, April 15 calling on the the president to release his tax returns. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Tax season shows need for simpler system

By Ed Feulner

Illustration on government policies that keep the poor poor by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Government makes poor people poorer

By Stephen Moore

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer

Charles Schumer fights for Supreme Court ideology

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A C-SPAN poll finds 26 percent of Americans don't have an opinion on Supreme Court justice nominee Neil Gorsuch's qualifications and 43 percent support his confirmation. (Associated Press)

Neil Gorsuch Supreme Court nomination fight importance understood by ordinary Americans

By Hans A. von Spakovsky and Elizabeth Slattery

File - This Monday, Dec. 21, 2015 file photograph provided by the Israeli Ministry of Defense shows a launch of David's Sling missile defense system. A senior Israeli air force official says a joint U.S.-Israeli missile interceptor will be operational soon, completing the country's multi-layer defense system. He said Monday that David's Sling, meant to counter medium-range missiles possessed by Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, will be operational in early April. (Ministry of Defense via AP, File)

Strategic Defense Initiative was visionary

By Ed Feulner

Illustration on the Baker/Schultz carbon tax plan by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Carbon tax will not help environment and make Americans poorer

By Stephen Moore

An American flag flies in front of a new courthouse annex, built with recovery funds from Hurricane Rita, which hit nearly ten years ago, in Cameron, La., Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015. A decade after Hurricane Rita, Cameron Parish in coastal, southwest Louisiana still bears the scars of her wrath. Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015 is the anniversary of Hurricane Rita. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

The 2016 Index of Culture and Opportunity comprises a gauge of social indicators

By Ed Feulner

FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 27, 2014, file photo, a woman pays for merchandise at a Kohl's department store in Sherwood, Ark. A recent poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that two-thirds of Americans would have difficulty coming up with the money to cover a $1,000 emergency. But having a modest, immediately accessible emergency fund is critical to financial well-being. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)

Welfare reform can work

By Ed Feulner

Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II is a family of single-seat, single-engine, all-weather stealth multirole fighters undergoing final development and testing by the U.S. military. The F-35A is the conventional takeoff and landing variant. (Lockheed Martin)

F-35 military aircraft and concurrent development

By John Venable

Illustration on impending U.S. government financial collapse by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

GOP ‘Blueprint for Reform’

By Ed Feulner

President Barack Obama, joined by the Easter Bunny, greets members of the audience on the South Lawn at the White House Easter Egg Roll at the White House in Washington, Monday, March 28, 2016. Thousands of children gathered at the White House for the annual Easter Egg Roll which features&#160;live music, sports courts, cooking stations, storytelling, and Easter egg rolling. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

ED FEULNER: Rule by bureaucrat

By Ed Feulner

Illustration on decreasing economic freedom in the U.S. by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

ED FEULNER: America’s declining economic freedom

By Ed Feulner