Kathianne
12-09-2012, 08:38 PM
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323501404578163210469870342.html?m od=googlenews_wsj
Updated December 7, 2012, 6:31 p.m. ET
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BY (http://online.wsj.com/search/term.html?KEYWORDS=%0A++++++++++++++++++++%3CEM%3E ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++BY+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++%3CA+HREF%3D% 22%2FSEARCH%2FTERM.HTML%3FKEYWORDS%3D%250A%2B%2B%2 B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B% 2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%253CA%2BHREF%253D%2522% 252FSEARCH%252FTERM.HTML%253FKEYWORDS%253DDANIEL%2 52BHENNINGER%2526BYLINESEARCH%253DTRUE%2522%253EDA NIEL%2BHENNINGER%253C%252FA%253E%250A%2B%2B%2B%2B% 2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B %2B%2B%2B%26BYLINESEARCH%3DTRUE%22%3E%0A++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++%3CA+HREF%3D%22%2FSEARCH%2FTERM. HTML%3FKEYWORDS%3DDANIEL%2BHENNINGER%26BYLINESEARC H%3DTRUE%22%3EDANIEL+HENNINGER%3C%2FA%3E%0A+++++++ +++++++++++++++++%3C%2FA%3E%0A++++++++++++++++++++ %3C%2FEM%3E%0A++++++++++++++++&bylinesearch=true) (http://online.wsj.com/SEARCH/TERM.HTML?KEYWORDS=%0A++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ %3CA+HREF%3D%22%2FSEARCH%2FTERM.HTML%3FKEYWORDS%3D DANIEL%2BHENNINGER%26BYLINESEARCH%3DTRUE%22%3EDANI EL+HENNINGER%3C%2FA%3E%0A++++++++++++++++++++++++&BYLINESEARCH=TRUE)DANIEL HENNINGER (http://online.wsj.com/SEARCH/TERM.HTML?KEYWORDS=DANIEL+HENNINGER&BYLINESEARCH=TRUE) Ed Feulner, who is finishing a 35-year run as the president of the Heritage Foundation, should be glum. As one of conservatism's senior officers in the war of ideas and policy, Mr. Feulner is relinquishing the Heritage presidency in the wake of a losing presidential campaign. Instead, he hands a postelection visitor a copy of Heritage's weekly agenda and points to the "thought for the week." It is George Washington's July 1777 letter to one of his generals:
"We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new exertions and proportion our efforts to the exigency of the times."
...
Ah, yes, the Heritage Backgrounders, an interesting subject. Years ago, when much of the Beltway media began to infuse political writing with partisan snark and spin, it became common practice to label the Feulner shop as "the conservative" or even "right-wing" Heritage Foundation, the intent of course being to suggest that its work was hopelessly biased and pro-Republican.
In fact, the Heritage Backgrounders were go-to documents for people of any political stripe writing about policy because their front end was always a straight, serious summary of the facts in play. The policy position was appended at the end. Heritage's Backgrounders became one of the few places in Washington one could get a simple set of facts.
Ed Feulner is proud of that: "The late Bill Raspberry"—a liberal Washington Post columnist—"once said to me, 'The neat thing about Heritage is I know I can rely on the facts, then you come to the last page and I rip that off.' But sometimes Bill Raspberry forgot to rip off the final page, because he came out and favored school choice."
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Updated December 7, 2012, 6:31 p.m. ET
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BY (http://online.wsj.com/search/term.html?KEYWORDS=%0A++++++++++++++++++++%3CEM%3E ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++BY+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++%3CA+HREF%3D% 22%2FSEARCH%2FTERM.HTML%3FKEYWORDS%3D%250A%2B%2B%2 B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B% 2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%253CA%2BHREF%253D%2522% 252FSEARCH%252FTERM.HTML%253FKEYWORDS%253DDANIEL%2 52BHENNINGER%2526BYLINESEARCH%253DTRUE%2522%253EDA NIEL%2BHENNINGER%253C%252FA%253E%250A%2B%2B%2B%2B% 2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B%2B %2B%2B%2B%26BYLINESEARCH%3DTRUE%22%3E%0A++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++%3CA+HREF%3D%22%2FSEARCH%2FTERM. HTML%3FKEYWORDS%3DDANIEL%2BHENNINGER%26BYLINESEARC H%3DTRUE%22%3EDANIEL+HENNINGER%3C%2FA%3E%0A+++++++ +++++++++++++++++%3C%2FA%3E%0A++++++++++++++++++++ %3C%2FEM%3E%0A++++++++++++++++&bylinesearch=true) (http://online.wsj.com/SEARCH/TERM.HTML?KEYWORDS=%0A++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ %3CA+HREF%3D%22%2FSEARCH%2FTERM.HTML%3FKEYWORDS%3D DANIEL%2BHENNINGER%26BYLINESEARCH%3DTRUE%22%3EDANI EL+HENNINGER%3C%2FA%3E%0A++++++++++++++++++++++++&BYLINESEARCH=TRUE)DANIEL HENNINGER (http://online.wsj.com/SEARCH/TERM.HTML?KEYWORDS=DANIEL+HENNINGER&BYLINESEARCH=TRUE) Ed Feulner, who is finishing a 35-year run as the president of the Heritage Foundation, should be glum. As one of conservatism's senior officers in the war of ideas and policy, Mr. Feulner is relinquishing the Heritage presidency in the wake of a losing presidential campaign. Instead, he hands a postelection visitor a copy of Heritage's weekly agenda and points to the "thought for the week." It is George Washington's July 1777 letter to one of his generals:
"We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new exertions and proportion our efforts to the exigency of the times."
...
Ah, yes, the Heritage Backgrounders, an interesting subject. Years ago, when much of the Beltway media began to infuse political writing with partisan snark and spin, it became common practice to label the Feulner shop as "the conservative" or even "right-wing" Heritage Foundation, the intent of course being to suggest that its work was hopelessly biased and pro-Republican.
In fact, the Heritage Backgrounders were go-to documents for people of any political stripe writing about policy because their front end was always a straight, serious summary of the facts in play. The policy position was appended at the end. Heritage's Backgrounders became one of the few places in Washington one could get a simple set of facts.
Ed Feulner is proud of that: "The late Bill Raspberry"—a liberal Washington Post columnist—"once said to me, 'The neat thing about Heritage is I know I can rely on the facts, then you come to the last page and I rip that off.' But sometimes Bill Raspberry forgot to rip off the final page, because he came out and favored school choice."
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