FreedomTalks

Democratic Party Fundraiser
December 15, 2005
6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Lion Crest, Biltmore Estate
Asheville, North Carolina
Rally & Demonstration: BLACK OUT!
Jim Black must go! — and all those who support him.
Demonstrators will convene on the streets immediately outside the Biltmore
Estate during the fundraiser to bring attention to corruption at the seat of power
in [...]

We have a new “Bridge to Nowhere” to fight. Behind the lead of Republican Senator Thad Cochran, Congress plans to take $13 million from their Katrina relief spending and use it to build a new museum celebrating the Army Corps of Engineers.
That’s the same Army Corps of Engineers that is in large [...]

A new study by our friends at The Tax Foundation illustrates how the United States has the highest overall corporate income tax rate (39.3 percent combined federal and state) among all countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
The bottom line: the U.S. corporate tax code is hurting our competitiveness in the [...]

President Bush in North Carolina
By Joyce Krawiec
www.TheNorthCarolinaConservative.com
President Bush arrived in North Carolina today to talk about the state of the economy and to tour the Deere Hitachi plant in Kernersville. The rainy weather did not dampen the spirits of the nearly 1,000 people (800 employees and 200 guests) gathered to hear the [...]

Party leadership is beginning to realize that voters’ desire elected officials who enact policy which aligns with the principles for which they were elected; this is the basis of a representative democracy. Dick Armey pointed out the current problem in his Wall Street Journal Op-ed, “Today, with Republicans controlling both the legislative and executive [...]

Brogdon still pushing Taxpayer Bill of Rights
THE JOURNAL RECORD
TULSA – Rebuffed by Democratic foes, state
Sen. Randy Brogdon isn’t letting his Taxpayer
Bill of Rights idea die quietly.
The Owasso Republican announced
Wednesday that he was heading up a petition
drive designed to get his proposal on the general
election ballot next November.
Standing before a pink, 800-pound replica of
a pig, Brogdon [...]

This week, the Oklahoma chapters of FreedomWorks were busy gathering signatures for a TABOR ballot initiative in the Sooner State.
They joined forces with state senators James Williamson and Randy Brogdon in Owasso on Tuesday. The group was featured on local talk radio station KFAQ. Host Michael DelGiorno interviewed the group, who told listeners to come [...]

The story is here.
Basically, the retirement system for state workers in New Jersey is under pressure.
As the Newark Star-Ledger reports, “A state advisory panel today will recommend that the retirement age for teachers and state workers be raised from 55 to 60 and that employees of the state and some local governments pay a [...]

A new paper by Heritage budget guru Brian Riedl titled “Entitlement-Driven Long-Term Budget Substantially Worse Than Previously Projected” lays out the stark situation facing our nation’s fiscal and economic future. The paper is an important rebuke to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and its ‘rosy’ estimates that the fedgov will consume 33% of the [...]

Our friends at CEI have a unique way to deal with trash-digging conspiracy-peddling environmentalists.
The Washington Times has the story.
“This past summer, I and a select group of others learned that [Greenpeace] coveted our trash, apparently to feed their various conspiracy theories involving anyone who questions their dogma,” Christopher C. Horner said. “Indeed, my [...]