FreedomTalks

Kerri Houston has a great article about the need for coal power plants in Texas.
Here are a few excerpts:
Take Texas, for example. Demographic studies predict a population increase of six million residents over the next ten years, and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas has issued a dire warning that without new power sources, capacity [...]

Thomas Sowell has a great article out about ‘The Cast of Characters’ of the Democratic party.  And a profile of what Nancy Pelosi has done in the House of Representatives.
On immigration, Congresswoman Pelosi voted against tightening border security. Current House Speaker Dennis Hastert voted for it — and also led the fight that stopped the [...]

The Majority Caucus on the House Budget Committee has published what could potentially be Nancy Pelosi’s agenda her first 100 hours as Speaker of the House. Here are a few interesting items:

Roll back the 2001 tax cuts.

Repealing the tax cuts would cost American taxpayers $164 billion in 2011, and $1.5 trillion through 2015 according [...]

Dick Armey will be appearing on Kudlow and Company on CNBC tonight around 5:30 pm EST.  He will be speaking about Nancy Pelosi’s economic agenda and the mid-term elections.

Dick Armey has been busy promoting FreedomWorks’ agenda recently on television and radio. Two more appearances are in line for the next couple of days.
Watch Armey on MSNBC tonite (Tuesday) at 6:00pm Eastern on The Situation with Tucker Carlson.
Listen to Armey tomorrow (Wednesday) on the Laura Ingraham show at 9:00am Eastern.

Dick Armey, FreedomWorks Chairman, was on NPR Monday morning discussing various issues.
Armey says the GOP has failed to seize “the big ideas, like Social Security reform. This is the most important public-policy issue of our generation. Our Republican majority with a Republican in the White House should have taken this — as we say in [...]

Cesar Conda, a FreedomWorks fellow, has a great article up on National Review.  He talks about the 2003 capital-gains tax cut, dividend tax reduction, and how the GOP has failed to portray the message of a booming economy to the voters.
By increasing after-tax rewards for saving and investing, the 2003 tax-rate cuts worked precisely as [...]

Disney will begin to limit, “the calorie, fat and sugar it will allow in packaged foods it markets to children using the faces of Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters.”
This comes a few weeks after the New York City Health Department has proposed “an amendment to the Health Code that would phase-out artificial trans fat [...]

Today, FreedomWorks hosted a luncheon to discuss the Hutchison-Pence plan for immigration reform. Over 50 staffers and media were in attendance.
“We are a nation that tears down walls, not a nation that builds walls,” said former House Majority Leader Richard Armey of Texas. Armey, now chairman of the FreedomWorks Foundation, has been [...]

Voters Continue To Support TABOR

NEWS CENTER’S Voice Of the Voter exclusive survey shows voters solidly support the Taxpayer Bill Of Rights. But it’s a different story for local organizations and municipalities that rely on public funding.
The poll asked, “If you were standing in the voting booth right now, would you vote yes or no on [...]