Freedom Line Blog

Join CFIF Corporate Counsel and Senior Vice President Renee Giachino today from 4:00 p.m. CDT to 6:00 p.m. CDT (that’s 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EDT) on Northwest Florida’s 1330 AM WEBY, as she hosts her radio show, “Your Turn: Meeting Nonsense with Commonsense.”  Today’s guest lineup includes:

4:00 CDT/5:00 pm EDT:  Leon Aron, Resident Scholar and Director of Russian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute – the Ukraine situation and Sanctions against Russia;

4:30 CDT/5:30 EDT:  Lana Harfoush, Director of Communications for the Moving Picture Institute – Economic Issues Portrayed in Film;

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EDT:  Rupert Darwall, finance and public policy expert and Consulting Director for White House Writers Group – Climate Change and Global Warming Alarmism;  and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  David Williams, President of Taxpayers Protection Alliance – FCC and the First Amendment.

Listen live on the Internet here.   Call in to share your comments or ask questions of today’s guests at (850) 623-1330.

In my column this week, I take aim at President Obama’s announcement earlier this week that he’s unilaterally moving the EPA towards forcing carbon emission reductions on coal producers. Of course, this will impact the job prospects of precisely the sort of everymen that liberals claim to champion, an observation rendered beautifully concise by Rupert Darwall writing at the Prospect blog:

A brilliant tweet at the time of the Thatcher funeral encapsulates the left’s ideological confusion—being in favour of coal miners and against what they mined.