FreedomTalks

There is quite a political dust-up in Washington over a spectrum proposal in front of the Federal Communications Commission.  I’m sure the name was market-tested – Frontline – to generate political support.  The gist of the idea is to reserve valuable waterfront property, in this case a band of the 700 [...]

Today, Ohio’s House passed SB 117, the cable choice bill. Now, Ohioans will be able to benefit from cable compeititon. Also, similar legislation has been successful in other states, such as Indiana and Michigan.
Here is a story from the Aaron Marshall Plain Dealer Bureau:
Columbus - Giants in the pay-TV business could sell their video services [...]

Today, FreedomWorks Chariman Dick Armey and Vice President for Strategy Kent Lassman joined Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI) at his press conference  in support of the Tax Increase Prevention Act. This bill would make permanant the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003. Without the bill, these tax cuts would expire, placing a $500 billion burden upon taxpayers.
Mr. [...]

Today’s lead editorial in The Washington Post called for a carbon tax or cap and trade system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Have they not read the recent Congressional Budget Office report about cap and trade? As the report notes, such a system would have huge economic costs, cost Americans jobs and transfer wealth from the [...]

Ron Paul continues to promote freedom. Watch this great clip!

The Denver Post has a great op-ed today about Denver mayor John Hickenlooper’s “Climate Action Plan” which seeks to reduce CO2 emissions. This intrusive proposal infringes on the privacy rights of the citizens of Denver by penalizing them for the ‘excessive use’ of natural gas and electricity. Columnist David Harsanyi points out the obvious flaws [...]

In 2005 alone the Department of Defense spent $20 million dollars on cell phones! Because the money was in an earmark it was not competitively bid on. Qualcomm, a San Diego company, got the $20 million for their CDMA cell phones. Recently Qualcomm chips were banned from all new US cell phones. Executives at [...]

This is a clip from the most recent Democratic debate where the candidates discuss health care. All the candidates seem to favor some form of a socialized universal plan. John Edwards does not hide the fact that he plans to raise taxes, admitting he’d have to because his plan costs $90-100 billion. Hillary Clinton even [...]

In this video from the most recent presidential debate, Rudy Giuliani stresses the need to move away from a system of “government and employee dominated” health care towards one of individual ownership. He offers a plan of $15,000 tax deductions for families to pay for health care and health savings accounts.
View his take on [...]

FreedomWorks is announcing a “key vote” on Senator James Inhofe’s Gas Price Act, which would open up domestic oil production.
The vote is happening right now. You can watch it on C-SPAN2.
Here is the Key Vote language.