FreedomTalks

Reuters reported today,
“The European Commission warned Microsoft on Thursday it faced further fines in its antitrust case for seeking unreasonable prices from software makers for interoperability information.
The latest formal charges could lead to new fines against the U.S. software giant, the Commission said in a statement.”
If Microsoft does not reply to the commission’s statement of […]

Venezuelan socialist strongman Hugo Chavez has decided he needs dictatorial power to enact his socialist revolution.
Here is the story.
Chavez, who is beginning a fresh six-year term, says the legislation will be the start of a new era of “maximum revolution” during which he will consolidate Venezuela’s transformation into a socialist society. His critics, however, are […]

Last night I attended the Washington premier of the film Mine Your Own Business. Despite ridiculous protest from anti-growth Greenpeace, the film screening took place at The National Geographic Society. It is a must-see for those interested in learning about the harm that radical environmentalists do to poor communities when they block development projects.
Here is […]

From John Taylor of the Tuesday Morning Group in Richmond:

As you will undoubtedly remember, in the spring of 2005 we introduced the Freedom & Prosperity Agenda, an eleven-plank legislative platform that one might think of as a state version of the Contract with America.

In the 2006 session of Virginia’s General Assembly, ten […]

The following article was originally published by Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs
Is Global Warming Talk Based on Science?
By David Deming, Ph.D. I recently read an editorial column in an Oklahoma newspaper alleging that Senator Inhofe is “not the leader we deserve” because he refuses to toe the party line on global warming. That’s funny. I […]

My friend Marc Levin at Texans for Fiscal Responsibility has a great piece on Texas property taxes.
Here is the link.

As a new year dawns, Texans should be looking forward to exploding fireworks and expanding opportunities. Unfortunately, many families cannot help but feel financially deflated by the property tax bill that has come due for 2006. […]

George Will writes today that Republicans “were punished not for pursuing but for forgetting conservatism.”
Crass spending (the farm and highway bills, the nearly eightfold increase in the number of earmarks since 1994) and other pandering (e.g., the Terri Schiavo intervention) have intensified as Republicans’ memories of why they originally sought power have faded.
Will does cite […]

The battle for control of the Congress, the state legislatures and governorships has begun.
FreedomWorks volunteers are busy all over the country getting out the vote and injecting a free market message into the campaigns.
In Oregon our members are fighting for a tax cut for families. California FreedomWorks is fighting tax hikes on tobacco and […]

Today on a conference call, House leaders Dennis Hastert, John Boehner and Roy Blunt discussed the President’s signing of the Border Fence Act of 2006.
As Congressional Quarterly reported today, “The measure (HR 6061) also authorizes a “virtual fence” of sensors, cameras, pilotless aircraft and other surveillance technology. It was passed by the House Sept. 14 […]

Today’s Washington Times has a frightening article about the utter chaos on the U.S.-Mexico border. 
Congress has just released a report on the matter here. 
All the more reason for real, and meaningful border security policy.    
     Law-enforcement authorities along the U.S.-Mexico border are outgunned and outmanned by drug smugglers armed with automatic weapons, grenade launchers, bazookas, improvised explosive […]