FreedomTalks

Doug Bandow, Bastiat scholar in free enterprise at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and vice president of policy for Citizen Outreach, discusses card check and the Employee Free Choice Act of 2007 on the Examiner.com.
Bandow explains that when it comes to recruiting new members to the union, union activists feel it is OK to routinely intimidate […]

Amanda Carpenter over at TownHall.com wrote a story about how our supporters were bullied at yesterday’s union rally.
Big Labor bussed thousands of activists to Capitol Hill Tuesday to lobby for the Employee Free Choice Act—an act union leaders have called their top legislative priority for the 110th Congress.
Event organizers claimed they brought 2,000 participants on […]

Chairman Armey had his letter on student loans published in The New York Times.
Madeleine May Kunin has her heart in the right place (“A Math Lesson on College Loans,” Op-Ed, June 13), but calling for more government in the student loan market just doesn’t add up.
A direct federal student loan program would raise the cost […]

Townhall has a good opinion piece by likely presidential candidate Fred Thompson on the influence of unions in politics and the card check issue

Mitch McConnell has written a good op-ed on why we need to preserve the secret ballot in union elections. The “Employee Free Choice Act of 2007″, which would actually reduce the choices available to workers, has passed the House and will be voted on in the Senate this week.
Rather than enable employees’ free choice, […]

The Hill newspaper reports on the proposed tax increases in the new energy bill. Instead of focusing on increasing our domestic oil production, this bill is looking to tap new and expensive renewable energy sources to be paid through tax hikes on oil companies. In addition, royalty rates on offshore oil production would be raised […]

Starting July 1, the condo termination law under the Florida Legislature’s property tax reform could pose some serious threats to property owners.
Currently, there are two colliding factors:
The proposed tax reform measure does not offer tax relief for part-time residents.
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Under the condo law, many will likely receive potentially lucrative offers from developers who want to take […]

This is a great video put together by Ron Paul 2008.

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This video of Bureacrash is hillarious. Kind of exposes the left’s ignorance of Ponzi schemes.

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Last week the Supreme Court ruled that unions cannot use a member’s mandatory dues for political activity without their explicit consent. Essentially, they cannot force you to support a political candidate against your will. This is an expansion on the 1988 case, Communication Workers vs. Beck, where the court said that unions could not use […]