FreedomTalks

Peter Swire of the Center for American Progress is urging Congress to enact technical measures that enable users to opt out of online cookies—typically invisible and unobtrusive digital trackers which send information about a user’s behavior back to their hosts. This isn’t a new thing for Swire; previously, he’s complained that current technologies used to […]

As the Democratic Presidential Primary winds down in Pennsylvania, to no surprise, neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama has provided the voters of Pennsylvania with a real proposal for saving Social Security.
It’s funny, the pundits say that the Democratic candidates have been able to draw young people into their campaigns, but when it comes to […]

Here is the clip from yesterday’s edition of The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer on CNN.

CA-41 Democratic candidate Tim Prince stated on the phone that he couldn’t sign FreedomWorks’ earmark pledge because it would be “political suicide.”  That’s kind of surprising in light of the fact that so many other signers, who have actually made it to Congress, feel that far from “political suicide” it’s good policy and good politics […]

This is an interesting video by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), who decided to thank bloggers for getting his message out to voters. Not a bad strategy for building good relationships with the new media. It’s a good idea that I would imagine other candidates might follow in the near future.

Former Austin Mayor Kirk Watson really didn’t have an answer to the question, “What are Barack Obama’s legislative accomplishments?” Could this become a theme in the general election if Obama wraps up the nomination? Stay tuned.

Senator John McCain has changed his story on his opposition to the Bush tax cuts. The Associated Press reports,
Republican John McCain says he opposed President Bush’s tax cuts because they didn’t come with spending cuts. That is not what he said at the time.
In a presidential debate on Wednesday, McCain said he voted against the […]

This is simply an amazing admission from the former president and first-lady hopeful Bill Clinton. Hat tip to ABC News.
We just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions ’cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren.
Well, at least someone on the left is admitting that carbon taxes […]

Ben Smith of The Politico writes that Barack Obama was the “most liberal” senator of 2007, according to National Journal.
National Journal rates Obama the single “most liberal” member of the Senate last year, spotlighting some policy differences, as well writing GOP attack ad if he’s the nominee, but perhaps also a helpful note in consolidating […]