FreedomTalks

Tonight, Senate Democrats are staying up all night in order to have a very long discussion about the issues……a discussion that they couldn’t have during daylight hours apparently.
Robert Byrd will be french braiding hair and Hillary Clinton will be bringing the ouija board.
It has been reported that Diane Feinstein will be telling ghost stories…and everyone [...]

Socialized medicine crusader Michael Moore has declared war on CNN. He has posted on his website an open letter saying that “I’m about to become [CNN's] worst nightmare” because they are refusing to apologize for fairly criticizing Moore’s latest movie SiCKO as dishonest. He has written an extensive manifesto detailing CNN’s supposed hit job (part [...]

FreedomWorks Intern, Jessica Irwin attended the 57th Biennial College Republicans National Committee Convention this past weekend at the Sheraton National Hotel in Arlington, VA. Among the College Republicans at the event were prominent Republican leaders like Republican National Committee Chairman, Mike Duncan; Dr. Paul Teller, the Deputy Director of the Republican Study Committee; president of [...]

I just received this email from the Republican Study Committee. This is where your tax dollars are going…
According to our latest count, there appears to be roughly 1338 earmarks included in the Labor-HHS appropriations bill. One of these earmarks, requested by Rep. Berkely, would provide $200,000 to the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy, (whose [...]

Libertarian commentator Larry Elder has a good piece on Michael Moore’s agitprop film SICKO.
He writes,
First, understand that lack of health-care “insurance” does not mean a lack of health care. Many emergency rooms, by law, provide medical care to anyone who walks in, whether an illegal or legal resident of this country.
Second, when Moore asserts [...]

In a conference call with Congressman Scott Garrett (R-NJ) a new program called LEARN was discussed that would give states the option of opting out of No Child Left Behind and provide residents of those states a tax credit equal to the amount that they would have otherwise received in federal funding.
The LEARN Act will [...]

The Federal Farm Bill, which needs to be renewed every 5 years, was last passed in 2002 and is set to expire September 30th. There are many things wrong with the current agriculture subsidy regime. It only benefits a small number of wealthy farmers who grow only a very small number of crops, drives up [...]

FreedomWorks President and CEO Matt Kibbe has a great piece on Al Gore’s Live Earth concert this past weekend.
By now, you probably are used to hearing lectures like this one from the former Vice President and Oscar winner, Hollywood’s favorite environmental scold. It’s hard to avoid his didactic preaching about your conspicuous consumption of energy. [...]

FreedomWorks Chairman and Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey wrote a piece for today’s Politico.
The piece discusses the partisan tactics being used by the Democrats regarding the budget and Rep. Jim Nussle (R-IA), whom President Bush has nominated to head the White House Budget Office.
Democrats are holding up Rep. Nussle’s confirmation in order to foul [...]

Rep. John Dingell gets the fact that global warming legislation will cost consumers and taxpayers more than people realize. There seems to be a fight brewing between the MoveOn.org/Pelosi wing and the unions/Dingell wing on placing more restrictions on our domestic auto industry. Check out Dingell’s comments about the global warming select committee headed by [...]