Archive for July, 2007

FreedomWorks Straw Poll for 2008

Friday, July 27th, 2007 by Brendan Steinhauser

Watch this great ad that our intern, Xander Zebrose, created for our 2008 online straw poll.
Voting begins July 31st!

Rudy Giuliani says he supports personal accounts

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007 by Brendan Steinhauser

Thanks to Students for Saving Social Security for posting the video!

Mitt Romney says he supports personal accounts

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007 by Brendan Steinhauser

Presidential candidate Mitt Romney is sounding a bit different on Social Security reform.
Watch this S4 video by CLICKING HERE.

John McCain talks about Social Security

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007 by Brendan Steinhauser

“We need to fix social security.” Thanks to our friends at Students for Saving Social Security for asking this great question of John McCain. McCain said that he would fix this system without tax increases.
Watch the video!

Union bosses pay homeless to do their dirty work

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007 by Matt Hittle

In a recent Washington Post article, Keith Alexander uncovers a strategy that unions have been using for years- paying the homeless to protest.
For the low, low price of only $8 per hour, YOU, too, can get homeless people to picket for any variety of issues.
By the way, this is less than one dollar above the [...]

Newt goes nuclear

Monday, July 23rd, 2007 by Brendan Steinhauser

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is blasting the GOP presidential candidates.
Dismissing the GOP presidential field as a “pathetic” bunch of “pygmies,” Newt Gingrich hinted Monday he might step in to beat Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.
“If, in mid-October, it’s quite clear that one or more of the current candidates is strong enough to [...]

FreedomWorks slams Gov. Crist on climate change

Monday, July 23rd, 2007 by Brendan Steinhauser

The Miami Herald blog “Naked Politics” has taken notice of our effort to hold Florida Gov. Charlie Crist accountable for pandering to environmentalists.
Read their blog post here.

Dick Armey, former U.S. House Majority Leader, today slammed Gov. Charlie Crist for “pandering to radical enviromentalists.” Armey, who is now chairman of FreedomWorks, took issue with Crist’s recent [...]

McCain Wants to Veto Pork

Monday, July 23rd, 2007 by Peter Deery

Fledgling presidential candidate John McCain in Michigan today promised that if elected president he would repeal the alternative minimum tax.
“I am committed to repealing this tax before millions of American families are forced to devote even more of their hard work to paying for the spending largesse in Washington,”
McCain emphasized his history of fighting [...]

Jose Pinera talks retirement security en espanol

Monday, July 23rd, 2007 by Brendan Steinhauser

More on Sicko

Friday, July 20th, 2007 by Matt Hittle

The National Center for Policy Analysis recently began a new website about Michael Moore’s movie Sicko.
It details some of the inaccuracies in the movie.
Check it out!