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Changes to CampaignForLiberty.org
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Liberty NewsWire: October 1, 2012
Bernanke sought to reassure investors that the timetable for keeping rates low "doesn't mean we expect the economy to be weak through 2015." Rather, he said the Fed expects to keep rates low well after the economy strengthens. - USA [...]
Liberty NewsWire: September 28, 2012
With the announcement that the U.S. Postal Service will be unable to make a $5.6 billion payment to its employees’ health benefit plan due on September 30th, calls for privatization of the archaic service are mounting. The service already [...]
Liberty Newswire: September 26, 2012
Despite a quiet start on Tuesday, Wall Street had its biggest decline in three months after a Federal Reserve official said he doubted the central bank’s effort to bolster economic growth would work. Charles I. Plosser, president of [...]
Audit the Fed Reaches Cosponsor Record in the Senate
Thanks to your support and action, S. 202, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act, has reached a new cosponsor milestone in the Senate - 34! That's the highest amount of support this bill has ever received in that chamber.We're [...]
"More of the Same" or "Hope and Change"?
Jack Hunter, writing at the American Conservative Magazine discusses the recent reports that President Obama has doubled-down on Bush-era spying programs.
Protect Internet Freedom!
High-paid lobbyist Chris Dodd and other statists think Internet Freedom is dangerous, when the real threat lies in their plans to cede ever more control over our liberties online to Big Brother. You can remind Congress that freedom has fueled [...]
Liberty NewsWire: September 27, 2012
A tiny solar company named SoloPower will flip the switch on production at a U.S. factory Thursday, a major step toward allowing it to tap a $197 million government loan guarantee awarded under the same controversial program that supported failed [...]
Liberty NewsWire: September 25, 2012
On Wednesday a government watchdog issued a report finding widespread failures with the government's "Fast and Furious" gun trafficking operation. On Thursday, the watchdog at the Justice Department, Inspector General Michael [...]
Liberty NewsWire: September 24, 2012
Three minutes after midnight Friday leading into Saturday morning, the Senate rejected by a vote of 81 to 10 a proposal offered by Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to hold aid to the governments of Egypt, Libya, and Pakistan pending the surrender to [...]