National Blog - page 295
Taking On the TSA!
Campaign for Liberty has been working toward our goal of abolishing the TSA ever since its obscene, indecent, and inhumane policy of groping and scanning passengers became standard operating procedure in the fall of 2010.Our fight has more [...]
Liberty NewsWire: June 18, 2012
This is not Afghanistan or Iraq or Iran, this is America and we have certain inalienable rights and one is to peacefully demonstrate. -- SalonIndividual LibertySalon--Armed Drones Over AmericaEconomyMarketWatch--Fed expected to twist [...]
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 [...]
How Low Interest Rates and the Federal Reserve Affect Our Economy
The Federal Reserve has decided to keep short term interest rates near zero, until at least the end of 2014, in hopes of encouraging Americans to borrow by making it easier to get more money to spend and invest. Obviously, our economy is still in [...]
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 [...]