National Blog - page 295
Two Important Amendments to Senate Farm Bill
Two important amendments to the Senate's omnibus Farm Bill, S. 3240, could come up for a vote as early as Tuesday evening, and I hope C4L members will take action to advance them.The first is Senate amendment (S.A.) 2220, which would exclude [...]
Liberty NewsWire: June 14, 2012
The board hand-picked by Mayor Michael Bloomberg that must approve his ban of selling large sugar-filled drinks at restaurants might be looking at other targets."--Myfoxny.comIndividual libertyFox New York – Health Panel Talks About [...]
Bernanke Testimony
Yesterday, C4L's Matt Burrow and I attended the Joint Economic Committee hearing where Ben Bernanke was testifying on the current state of the economy.Two exchanges during the hearing are worth paying attention to. The first, was Senator Jim [...]
Marco Rubio: A Hawks' Hawk
In a foreign policy speech before the Council on Foreign Relations yesterday, Senator Marco Rubio again displayed that he is nothing more than a neoconservative hawk who would love to send America's sons and daughters into a new field of [...]
U.S. Debt Set to Skyrocket
The Washington Times recently reported the CBO is projecting Washington’s debt to reach 200 percent of GDP in fewer than two decades.But even more significant than this are the harsh reviews the CBO has for Congress’ response to [...]
Restricting Drones Over America
As Cato's Gene Healy pointed out in an op-ed yesterday titled "Game of Drones," the Senate Armed Services Committee recently called for drones returning from Afghanistan to be used "freely and routinely" in U.S. [...]
Liberty NewsWire: June 12, 2012
Since Californians shrank their property taxes more than three decades ago by passing Proposition 13, people around the nation have echoed their dismay over such levies, putting forth plans to even them, simplify them, cap them, slash them. In an [...]
Liberty NewsWire: June 11, 2012
On Jan. 28, 2009, a week after Obama’s nomination, the Fed owned $302 billion in U.S. Treasury securities. On April 25, 2012, the latest date reported, the Fed owned five and a half time that much in U.S. Treasury securities--$1.668 [...]
Liberty NewsWire: June 8, 2012
San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon doesn't mince words when it comes to the war on drugs."It has been a failure," he told The Huffington Post. "It hasn't reduced drug use in any significant way. It's not good [...]
Liberty NewsWire: June 6, 2012
Russia and China are decisively against attempts to regulate the Syrian crisis with outside military intervention, as well as imposing a policy of regime change, including within the Security Council," it said.--AFPForeign PolicyAFP - [...]