FreedomTalks

This weekend I will be speaking at the Young Conservatives of Texas annual convention in San Antonio. If you are in the area and would like to join me for coffee on Saturday, just drop me a line at bsteinhauser @ freedomworks.org
I will be providing an update on our federal and state campaigns to donors […]

Today we had a great conference call with members of FreedomWorks Colorado. If you’d like to join our growing movement in Colorado, please join our FreedomWorks Colorado Yahoo Group here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freedomworkscolorado

Colorado’s “Blue Ribbon Commission on Health Care Reform” recently published it’s final report.  Predictably, the commission advocates the standard collection of mandates, subsidies (to families earning as much as $80,000), and “cost shifting.”  To quote the report: 

“Eleven (11) of the health care reform proposals submitted to the Commission included an individual mandate as a key […]

Virginia blog Leesburg Tomorrow is complaining about FreedomWorks’ support for payday lenders in Virginia.
[I]n effect it is the special interests of payday lenders who are out to take away your financial livelihood. Remember, this is an industry which has made up to $5,000 on a $300 loan off of a low-income warehouse worker, thanks to […]

The New Hampshire presidential primary is today, and our own Dick Armey weighs in on one of the candidates, Mike Huckabee, at RealClearPolitics. Here’s a sample:
Fiscal conservatives have spilled gallons of ink decrying his record, and for good reason. Yet the social conservatives who support him should be concerned as well, for Huckabee undermines the […]

Here is the YouTube video from MSNBC’s The Situation with Tucker Carlson.

My friends in The Young Conservatives of Texas often send me updates from the front lines of their battles with the left on college campuses. Here is a round-up of events and news from the best state in the U.S.
1. Chris Simcox returned to The University of Texas at San Antonio to talk about illegal […]

David Broder wants President Bush to sign on to a bill that would create an Affordable Housing Trust Fund.  But well intentioned measures like this are rarely good ideas.  Government-sponsored housing doesn’t have a particularly excellent track record.  FreedomWorks has noted this as a key vote, and provided a number of reasons why it’s a […]

Matt Hittle, my fellow blogger and a former FreedomWorks intern, has a good letter to the editor in today’s Sioux City Journal on SCHIP.
SCHIP is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, a stepping stone to an economically devastating nationalized health care system under the guise of “helping kids.” Public health care sounds great, but look through […]

Our friends at The Conservative Voice point out that conservative Steve Buehrer is facing a moderate in the special election primary in Ohio’s 5th congressional district. As we have pointed out in a previous post the pro-market Club for Growth recently endorsed Steve, who was stripped of his leadership office for bucking party leadership in […]