National Blog - page 171
President Obama's Comments at Selma
By Zac Nickerson President Obama made a telling comment in his speech in Selma, Alabama on Saturday. While commenting on the tragic events of that day in 1965, and the commemoration of its fifty year anniversary, he said, “What greater [...]
Stan Evans: RIP
When our friends get elected, they cease to be our friends." “The trouble with conservatives,” he once observed, “is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington [...]
More Americans wising up to who benefits from Obamanomics
According to a new Pew Research Center Poll, 66% of Americans believe that President's Obama's polices have benefited the rich, not the middle-class (H/T: The Daily Caller): Sixty-six percent of Pew’s 1,504 respondents say “government [...]
Former GAO Officials Say, Yes, We Can Audit the Fed!
Opponents of the Audit the Fed legislation claim that allowing the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to Audit the Fed would somehow "politicize" the Fed by giving Congress power to dictate monetary policy. The Wall Street Journal's [...]
Don’t Be Fooled by the Federal Reserve’s Anti-Audit Propaganda
In recent weeks, the Federal Reserve and its apologists in Congress and the media have launched numerous attacks on the Audit the Fed legislation. These attacks amount to nothing more than distortions about the effects and intent of the audit [...]
Campaign for Liberty to Congress: Don't Bust the Spending Caps
Campaign for Liberty has joined a coalition of free-market groups on a letter to Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price in support of adhering to the current spending caps in all areas, including defense. Campaign for Liberty continues to work for [...]
Investors Should Demand an Audit of the Fed
So says Denis Kleinfield at Newsmax: Who needs to operate in secrecy? The Federal Reserve, Wall Street and the government. But who gets audited? Investors. Just this last week, however, proposals were introduced into Congress to audit [...]
Campaign for Liberty Strongly Opposes Internet Sales Tax Bill
SPRINGFIELD, Virginia - Campaign for Liberty came out strongly today against the reintroduction of the grossly misnamed “Marketplace Fairness Act,” (S.698) which was reintroduced yesterday afternoon by Senator Mike Enzi [...]
Big Government spends money to see if Big Government is bad
They could have just asked me... President Obama's budget proposes spending $15 billion dollars to conduct a study on “Reducing Unnecessary Occupational Licensing Requirements.” Occupational licensing is the scheme by which [...]
NOT THE BEES
Interested in taking up beekeeping? Move to Virginia, where you can get government subsidies to raise bees: The Virginia General Assembly created the Beehive Grant Fund to promote the establishment of new beehives. Under the program, [...]