National Blog - page 238
State Department to spend $400,000 on camel sculpture in Pakistan
From Buzzfeed: The State Department is planning to spend $400,000 in taxpayer funds to buy a sculpture for the new American embassy being built in Islamabad, Pakistan, according to contracting records. To put the sculpture’s price tag into [...]
Might as well quit now
Via Wired UK: It's already too late to stop the ubiquitous tracking and monitoring of the public through biometrics, says Peter Waggett, Programme Leader at IBM's Emerging Technology Group. We need to stop worrying about prevention, and start [...]
It’s time to decouple health insurance from employment
It’s time to decouple health insurance from employment. The reason the vast majority of Americans receive their health insurance from their job goes back to FDR’s wage and price controls in the 1940s. Since the government made it illegal [...]
Food Freedom Legislation Introduced!
Today, Rep. Thomas Massie (KY-4) introduced two new bills, the "Milk Freedom Act of 2014," H.R. 4307, and the "Interstate Milk Freedom Act of 2014," H.R. 4308, with a bipartisan coalition of 20 lawmakers. In his press release announcing the new [...]
Healthcare.gov crashes on day of enrollment deadline
Today is the "deadline" to enroll in Obamacare. I use this term loosely because the government recently announced it has extended the deadline to enroll. This despite statements from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services spokeswoman Julie [...]
Ron Paul Headed to California!
Coming off his sold-out Syracuse event, C4L Chairman Ron Paul is headed to California on Wednesday, April 9th, where he'll speak in the University Theater at California State University, East Bay starting at 4pm! The event is cosponsored by The [...]
GOP leadership offers phony cuts and real abuse of power
Today, the House considered legislation providing a one-year delay in a scheduled reduction in Medicare payments for physicians. This is the latest in delays in the reductions Congress has passed ever since 1997 when Congress changed the formula [...]
Government "efficiency" does not equal liberty
One of the numerous proposals President Obama unveiled in his State of the Union address to take our freedom make our lives better was a new job-creation initiative, under the direction of Vice President Joe Biden. Instead of [...]