National Blog - page 201
Are the government's nutrition standards making us fat and unhealthy?
As I wrote back in May in my review of the documentary Fed Up, the federal government's nutrition standards are often driven by lobbyists and corporations, rather than actual nutrition. The results can lead to the government subsidizing the very [...]
This is What Winning Looks Like
I’ve had the honor of working alongside boots-on-the-ground activists since Campaign for Liberty started, and their amazing accomplishments are too numerous to list here. Campaign for Liberty activists are transforming the liberty landscape [...]
The Inaugural Food Freedom Fest!
C4L's Matt Burrow and I are traveling down this weekend through the visually stunning Shenandoah Valley to the 2014 Food Freedom Fest in Staunton, Virginia. This year's inaugural event, hosted by the frequent-LPAC sponsor, Farm-to-Consumer [...]
Happy Birthday Sarah Murnaghan
Sarah Murnaghan recently celebrated her twelfth birthday. For those who do not remember, Sarah is the girl who almost died last year because of federal regulations prohibiting children from receiving adult organs. Fortunately for Sarah, a federal [...]
If you have nothing to hide, you still have something to fear
Defenders of the NSA, TSA, PATRIOT Act, etc. like to say that "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." Three stories show the fallacy of that statement. First, is a survey from the Pew Research Center showing that only 42% of [...]
Government propaganda: Coming soon to a TV near you
Good news. Starting this week, the American people will at last be able to see programs produced by the federally-funded Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG). You see, for years the BBG, which operates outlets such as the Voice of America, Radio [...]
Is this why they wanted our donor information?
Courtesy of The Daily Caller comes this bizarre story about the IRS collecting the names of donors for an as-yet-to-be revealed "research project:" The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) improperly obtained donor lists from nonprofit groups as part [...]
Massie on Hemp
In a segment of a larger interview with cn|2's Pure Politics with Nick Storm, Rep. Thomas Massie talks about the early progress made on legalizing the domestic cultivation of industrial hemp through pilot projects authorized by a provision in the [...]
Campaign for Liberty to Congress: No New (Internet) Taxes
Campaign for Liberty has joined a collation of over forty other organizations in a letter urging the Senate to reject efforts to attach the National Internet Tax Mandate to the Internet Access Tax Moratorium. Instead the letter urges the Senate [...]
Mark Mix Talks Right to Work on C-SPAN
On Labor Day, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation President, Mark Mix appeared on C-SPAN to discuss what Right to Work means for workers. Be sure to catch Mark at LPAC this Year!