The Fondation Heritage is one of most important the Think preserving tank American. Founded in 1973, by the billionaire Joseph Coors, it is based with Washington. It receives an important financial support of the press baron Richard Mellon Scaife. In the years 1980 and the years 1980, the foundation was one of the architects and the most important supports of the doctrines Reagan which recommended the support of the movements anticommunists in Afghanistan, in Angola, with the Kampuchea or the Nicaragua. In partnership with the Wall Street Journal, the Foundation Heritage annually publishes the Index off Economic Freedom which measures the freedom of a country to the respect of the property right and the official level of regulation. From 1995 to 2005, the Foundation Heritage fed the preserving Web site Townhall.com.