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If you received a letter from us about the North Carolina smoking ban (HB 259), please help us by TAKING ACTION NOW!
Then, please call volunteer leader Kathy Hartkopf at 919-599-0273, and ask her how you can best help us defeat HB 259.

Thanks to Chris and Brendan for the gentle nudges necessary to get me back to blogging.  The post below is courtesy of one of my favorite blogs, Mungowit’s End.  In the spirit of another favorite read, Marginal Revolution, this is the best paragraph that I’ve read today.  It comes from a book review by Thomas […]

Check out this tremendous little cartoon, apparently a U.S. government anti-communist short from 1948 and still amazingly relevant.
Tip of the hat to http://alina_stefanescu.typepad.com/ and my colleague Kent Lassman.

Amanda Carpenter over at Human Events has a good piece about the Blue Dog Democrats who claim to believe in fiscal responsibility voting for tons of pork in the “emergency spending” bill passed by the House of Representatives last week. The article is here.
Rep. Heath Schuler, who kindly met with 15 or so FreedomWorks activists […]

Florida, once known for its tax friendly environment, has recently experienced an amazingly burdensome tax impact. Floridians are becoming serfs to property, with rates climbing faster than income and inflation, coupled with local and state government spending sprees, floridians are beginning to rally against excessive government and high Property Taxes.
You can help by signing […]

Cascade Policy Institute and Oregon FreedomWorks invite all Oregon state legislators to
have dinner with national health care policy expert Sally C. Pipes.
Wednesday, March 28
6:30-8:30 p.m
Salem Conference Center
200 Commercial Street SE
Salem, Oregon
Buffet dinner is complimentary
for each state representative
and one guest who RSVP.
RSVP by Monday, March 26th to (503) 242-0900 or nancy@cascadepolicy.org
Sally C. Pipes is […]

Dr. Wayne Brough, FreedomWorks chief economist, spoke to a group of conservative leaders at Georgetown University. You can watch the video here.

Chairman Armey authored an op-ed on Social Security that appeared on Fox News today.
Here is the article.
If Social Security is such a great program, why is it mandatory?
As the ’08 election cycle begins in earnest, few see any prospects for Social Security reform. However, a deal to “fix” the problem may be closer than we […]

Our friend Robert Bluey has a good post about Heritage Foundation’s new federal spending book of charts examining where our money is going. You can view the new charts here.
He notes,
• Anyone who follows the debate over congressional earmarks probably heard that the Pig Book shrunk in size this year. That’s because earmarks are down […]

On a conference call today, Republican Study Committee Members Marsha Blackburn, John Campbell and Jeb Hensarling announced that they will be outlining an American Taxpayer Bill of Rights on Wednesday at a press conference in Washington.
The congressmen told grassroots leaders and bloggers that they will outline four themes of fiscal conservatism, including stopping the raid […]