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This Week's Liberty Update

This week’s edition of the Liberty Update, CFIF’s weekly e-newsletter, is out. Below is a summary of its contents:

Hillyer:  Reagan 101

Ellis:  Direct-Pay Medicine: A Free Market Approach to Healthcare Reform

Lee:  Obama, Three Years Ago This Week: "If I Don't Have This Turned Around in Three Years..." Senik:  The "Republican Establishment" Rides Again

Release:  Conservative Leaders Call On President, Congress To Pass Corporate Tax Reform

Podcast:  The Consequences of Pres. Obama's Refusal to Approve Keystone XL Pipeline

Jester’s Courtroom:  Lawyers Win Big in iLawsuit

Editorial Cartoons:  Latest Cartoons of Michael Ramirez

Quiz:  Question of the Week

Notable Quotes:  Quotes of the Week

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February 03, 2012 • 10:30 am
Obama, Three Years Ago This Week: “If I Don’t Have This Turned Around in Three Years…”

Obama, Three Years Ago This Week: “If I Don’t Have This Turned Around in Three Years…”

Under Obama, deficits went from being measured in 'billions' to being measured in 'trillions.'

Reagan 101

Reagan 101

Reagan fought – long, relentlessly and often in the face of ridicule – in that great middle ground where the public’s mind is unsettled and uncertain.

The “Republican Establishment” Rides Again

The “Republican Establishment” Rides Again

While it’s an informal designation, the establishment is very much alive and well.

Direct-Pay Medicine: A Free Market Approach to Healthcare Reform

Direct-Pay Medicine: A Free Market Approach to Healthcare Reform

While ObamaCare creates armies of bureaucrats... , a small but growing number of doctors and patients are using a simple solution to improve medical treatment while cutting out middle men.

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The Consequences of Pres. Obama's Refusal to Approve Keystone XL Pipeline

CFIF Contributing Editor Ashton Ellis discusses how President Obama's decision to block the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline will cost Americans roughly 20,000 new jobs and 700,000 barrels of oil a day, and how the decision ultimately could benefit China at the expense of the U.S[more]
Fox News Contributor Margaret Hoover Talks Politics

Political commentator and author Margaret Hoover discusses her book, American Individualism: How a New Generation of Conservatives Can Save the Republican Party, and how the GOP can win back the millennials[more]
The Truth About SOPA and PIPA

Timothy Lee, Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs at CFIF, corrects the record on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA), and explains the urgent need for congressional legislation to crack down on foreign rogue websites dedicated to the theft of American intellectual property[more]
Battle Brews over "Recess" Appointments

Fox News contributor Cherylyn Harley LeBon, a member of the national advisory council of the Project 21 black leadership network and president and CEO of KLAR Strategies, discusses President Obama's constitutionally suspect decision to make "recess" appointments to the Consumer Financial[more]
 
The Pipeline to Nowhere

From the recent decision to block construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline to Solyndra-like 'green energy' initiatives, CFIF"s Renee Giachino discusses the Obama Administration…[more]
Want to Protect American Jobs? Start by Fighting Internet Piracy

CFIF's Renee Giachino debunks the misinformation by opponents of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and discusses the immediate need for Congress to pass legislation to crack…[more]
Obama's Christmas Gift to America: Class Warfare

CFIF's Renee Giachino discusses the increasingly destructive drumbeat of class warfare rhetoric coming out of the White House of late and urges President Obama to stop it and…[more]
Elena Kagan: Is the Fix in on Obamacare?

CFIF's Renee Giachino discusses the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to hear the lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of ObamaCare and raises questions about Justice Elena…[more]
Saluting America's Heroes

This Veterans Day, the Center for Individual Freedom honors the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces...[more]
The United Nations: 66 Years of Bilking the American Taxpayer

United Nations Day was earlier this week. In honor of the occasion, CFIF's Renee Giachino looks back on the world body's 66-year history and highlights how a dream of an…[more]
Question of the Week   
How many times in our nation’s history have two former Speakers of the House of Representatives faced off against each other for election as President of the United States?
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Quote of the Day   
 
"The [Indiana right-to-work law] is yet another indication that the American people understand that while unions serve a purpose, their political agenda is more about power and leverage than the rights of workers. The concept of the 'union shop' in which the government allows workers to be bullied and taxed into submission is repugnant. It also is the underlying factor behind the trend by which powerful…[more]
 
 
—Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary Magazine
— Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary Magazine
 
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