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Friedman Promoted Peace, Championed Free Market

Friday, November 17th, 2006 by Kevin Wood

Amity Shlaes has a great article at Bloomberg on Milton Friedman’s world wide legacy.
Today’s papers are filled with tributes to the scholarly contributions of Milton Friedman, who died yesterday at the age of 94.
They note how the great economist invented modern monetarism and vanquished orthodox Keynesianism with a single phrase: “Inflation is always and everywhere [...]

Was Armey right?

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006 by Kevin Wood

The Anniston Star has an editorial titled, Religious Right and Republicans: What is happening to GOP?
In it, they ask, “Was Armey right? Was the “thumpin’” the Republicans took the “electoral rout” he predicted?”
Read HERE to find out.
Excerpt:
Was Armey right? Was the “thumpin’” the Republicans took the “electoral rout” he predicted?
In a way it was.
Polls are [...]

Armey on Hardball (Video)

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 by Kevin Wood

Armey discusses Guiliani as the Republican nominee for President.

Armey - Laura Ingraham Show (Audio)

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 by Kevin Wood

Dick Armey appeared on the Laura Ingraham Show before the elections.
Here is the audio from that appearance.

Medved on Minimum Wage

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 by Kevin Wood

Michael Medved has a great write up on potential minimum wage increases.
During the campaign, soon-to-be House Speaker Pelosi declared: “Republicans have never hesitated to cut taxes for the wealthiest few but they have refused to give America’s workers a raise for nearly a decade…. That’s immoral, and Democrats will take our nation in a new [...]

NRO on FreedomWorks election Wrap Up

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 by Kevin Wood

You can find the audio and pictures of this event HERE.
National Review Online has coverage of the event HERE.

By the Numbers… [Stephen Spruiell]

At a luncheon on the Hill today sponsored by FreedomWorks, Republican pollster Ed Goeas said that the losses we saw last night are average for mid-term elections, particularly mid-term elections in a time [...]

Armey - night of election coverage

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 by Kevin Wood

You can find FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey talking about the elections on MSNBC HERE.

Armey and Daschle debate midterms

Tuesday, November 7th, 2006 by Kevin Wood

FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey was on News Hour with Jim Leher to discuss the midterm elections.
DICK ARMEY: The Republicans are going to have to prove to America that they really are the Republicans that the Democrats are pretending to be, that they’re for fiscal austerity, that they’re for tightening up on the spending, holding down [...]

Party Divided?

Friday, November 3rd, 2006 by Kevin Wood

Dick Armey on CNN:

Prop. 86 a tax-the-poor scheme California focus

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 by Kevin Wood

Matt Schumsky, a FreedomWorks field coordinator for California , had a great op-ed run in the  OC Register.
If passed by the California electorate Nov. 7, Proposition 86 would almost quadruple the current tax on cigarettes to $3.47 a pack and would stand as perhaps the most ill-conceived tax increase of all time, although, to be [...]