FreedomTalks

Dick Armey, FreedomWorks Chairman, was on NPR Monday morning discussing various issues.
Armey says the GOP has failed to seize “the big ideas, like Social Security reform. This is the most important public-policy issue of our generation. Our Republican majority with a Republican in the White House should have taken this — as we say in [...]

Our friends at Students for Saving Social Security have shared with us the results of their 2006 Social Security candidate survey. You can see where the candidates stand on this important issue. Up to this date 117 responses have been collected. The questions on the survey were the following:
1. Do you believe young people ought [...]

Cesar Conda, a FreedomWorks fellow, has a great article up on National Review.  He talks about the 2003 capital-gains tax cut, dividend tax reduction, and how the GOP has failed to portray the message of a booming economy to the voters.
By increasing after-tax rewards for saving and investing, the 2003 tax-rate cuts worked precisely as [...]

Today’s Washington Times has a frightening article about the utter chaos on the U.S.-Mexico border. 
Congress has just released a report on the matter here. 
All the more reason for real, and meaningful border security policy.    
     Law-enforcement authorities along the U.S.-Mexico border are outgunned and outmanned by drug smugglers armed with automatic weapons, grenade launchers, bazookas, improvised explosive [...]

In his latest op-ed Lawrence Kudlow notes, “The Republicans are on course to lose the House while the GOP Senate is hanging by a thread.”
His point rings true, “The single strongest, most-likely Republican voter bloc is the investor class, where shareholders should be encouraged to get out and vote for tax cuts, limited government, a [...]

Disney will begin to limit, “the calorie, fat and sugar it will allow in packaged foods it markets to children using the faces of Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters.”
This comes a few weeks after the New York City Health Department has proposed “an amendment to the Health Code that would phase-out artificial trans fat [...]

Below are results of an on-line survey taken of readers of Federal Times, which is a publication geared towards federal government managers:

Saving money
Federaltimes.com posted a question online Oct. 5 through 12 asking readers “How much of their office’s spending could be trimmed through greater efficiencies and better planning without [...]

There is a great article on Opinion Journal today.
An excerpt,
“If congressional Republicans are facing a rout come November, it’s in no small part because they’ve been headed down the Ohio highway. A few Supreme Court appointments and tax cuts aside, Republicans have largely abandoned the reform agenda that swept them to power in 1994. Their [...]

Michael Barone has an interesting piece over at TownHall.com about ‘06 and ‘08.
The article is here.

Past Nobel Peace Prizes have gone to elected (and unelected) officials, but this year the Nobel Committee gave the award to the entrepreneurial founder of the microloan bank Grameen.  It is long overdue recognition of the poverty-ending and peace-creating power of capitalism and voluntary trade. The New York Times reports:
Dr. Yunus founded the bank in [...]