National Blog - page 319
Senator Paul on "Freedom Watch"
Last night, Senator Paul joined Judge Napolitano on Freedom Watch to discuss the difficulties of getting members of Congress to cut even a few hundred million dollars from the budget (while we continue to run a $1.5 trillion deficit) [...]
Liberty NewsWire: November 2, 2011
Senate Clears $182 billion Spending Bill - Politico“The overall picture, the entire pie is about $10 billion more,” he said. “Unless we can be open and transparent with the American people and acknowledge the fact that [...]
Senate Votes on Appropriations Amendments
This morning, the Senate held votes on several amendments to a FY 2012 Appropriations bill for "Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs." One of the amendments that failed 38-60 [...]
Peter Schiff & Daniel Hannan on Huckabee
Peter Schiff & Daniel Hannan discussed a variety of topics on Huckabee including "Occupy Wall Street," ObamaCare, and solutions for our ailing economy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CRs9J1_MfEMany C4L Members may find the [...]
Libya: Another Interventionist Disaster
Remember, Libya was supposed to be another grand humanitarian adventure, with Uncle Sam riding in to save the poor Third World peoples. In Iraq some 200,000 civilians probably have died after George W. Bush's foolish neocon [...]
Opt Out
John Wiener has an interesting piece in The Nation today about the health risks posed by the TSA's privacy-shredding body scanners, and he exposes the truth behind the claim that they're FDA-approved.But the ProPublica investigation [...]
Time for Fannie and Freddie To Go
Via Politico:The Obama administration’s efforts to fix the housing crisis may have fallen well short of helping millions of distressed mortgage holders, but they have led to seven-figure paydays for some top executives at troubled mortgage [...]
Liberty NewsWire: November 1, 2011
Flying Proudly Over the Birthplace of Libya's Revolution, the al-Qaeda Flag - DailyMail (UK)“I’m not aware of anything that has been reported that has surprised us out of Libya,” Carney said during a morning press [...]
Jack Hunter @ LPAC 2011
Blogger and political commentator Jack Hunter spoke at LPAC 2011 on how in the three short years since the fall of 2008, C4L members are winning the battle of ideas and reshaping the political landscape. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ93d7XqIEg
Liberty NewsWire - October 28, 2011
But arguably, the more visible impact is the growth of a cottage industry of lawyers, compliance experts and other consultants, which does not score the kind of political points for Obama that new jobs for unemployed autoworkers would. - [...]