FreedomTalks

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 […]

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 […]

James M. Taylor, a senior fellow at the Heartland Institute, couldn’t make it any clearer. Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” is picked apart in a recent article published in the Chicago Sun-Times.
The Assault on Reason is quoted:
“We must stop tolerating the rejection and distortion of science. We must insist on an end […]

Senate Democrats are pushing for a budget plan that will significantly raise taxes and create a socialized health care system in Wisconsin. If all of their budget proposals pass, Wisconsin could easily move from the eighth most taxed state to the first!! We need to rally our fiscal conservatives in the Senate to stop […]

Today’s Congress Daily reported that Senate Republicans

blocked the union-backed “card-check” bill that would have made it easier for workers to organize, derailing labor’s top priority for the year. Democrats fell nine votes short of the 60 needed to overcome Republican opposition, as the cloture motion failed on a 51-48 vote.
All Democrats who were voting […]

FreedomWorks members in Yadkin County, North Carolina urged the Yadkin County Board of Commissioners not to increase their property taxes at a public budget hearing. The proposed budget for the 2007-2008 budget cycle
would raise the property-tax rate by 8 cents to pay for a $7 million jail and $26.5 million project to build two new […]

Scott Armstrong, a marketing professor from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, wants to challenge former Vice President Al Gore to a 10-year bet on how many degrees the global temperature will increase during that time. Both Armstrong and Gore would have to put $10,000 into the pool, with winner take all –$20,000 […]

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 […]

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.
and
Under the condo law, many will likely receive potentially lucrative offers from developers who want to take […]

Lawmakers in Florida have decided to move the presidential primary vote to January 29. Florida will hold the primary a week after early-bird New Hampshire and a week before February 5, or “Super Tuesday.”
Jim Greer, Chairman of the Florida Republican Party argues:
We recognize the (national) party’s need to control the primaries, but individual states need […]