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October 21st, 2016 at 10:20 am
Podcast: Prosecutorial and Government Abuses
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Timothy Lee, CFIF’s Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs, discusses recent attacks by liberal opponents of free speech and CFIF’s victory in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

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September 5th, 2015 at 10:06 am
Hillary, Iran and Silencing Dissent
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Timothy Lee, CFIF’s Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs, discusses Hillary Clinton’s conduct as Secretary of State, the Iran deal and how speech regulation is used to silence dissent.

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May 29th, 2015 at 8:47 am
Is Global Warming Really the World’s Biggest Threat?
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Timothy Lee, CFIF’s Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs, discusses why global warming is not the world’s greatest threat, why Vice President Joe Biden was wrong on his 2010 prediction about Iraq proving to be one of the greatest achievements of the Obama administration, and why former President George W. Bush is not to blame for ISIS.

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May 26th, 2015 at 3:05 pm
This Week’s “Your Turn” Radio Lineup
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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:  Robert Pondiscio, Senior Fellow and Vice President for External Affairs at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute – Lessons from the Opt Out Debate;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT:  Florida Senator Don Gaetz – 2015 Legislative Session Continues;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT:  Steven Bucci, Director, Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign and National Security Policy at The Heritage Foundation – ISIS;

5:15 CDT/6:15 pm EDT:  Daniel Allott, Deputy Commentary Editor at the Washington Examiner – The GOP Field Grows; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Timothy Lee, CFIF’s Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs – Current News Regarding the FCC, ISIS and other Issues.

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April 23rd, 2015 at 11:18 am
Why the Fight Must Continue Against the FCC’s “Net Neutrality” Order
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Timothy Lee, CFIF’s Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs, discusses why the fight to overturn the FCC’s so-called “Net Neutrality” Order should continue, litigation surrounding he Order, and why this isn’t just an issue for the telecommunications industry.

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April 13th, 2015 at 12:37 pm
This Week’s “Your Turn” Radio Lineup
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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:  Tiger Joyce, President of the American Tort Reform Association – Fraud and Mass Tort Advertising;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT:  Tzvi Kahn, Senior Policy Analyst for the Foreign Policy Initiative – Iran;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT:  David Rivkin, Jr., Partner at Baker & Hostetler – The Senate Filibuster; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT: Timothy Lee, CFIF’s Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs – The Fight Against Net Neutrality and Congressional Litigation Reform Efforts.

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February 23rd, 2015 at 2:49 pm
This Week’s “Your Turn” Radio Lineup
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Join CFIF Corporate Counsel and Senior Vice President Renee Giachino today from 4:00 p.m. CST to 6:00 p.m. CST (that’s 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EST) 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 CST/5:00 pm EST:  Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute – SCOTUS and King v. Burwell;

4:30 CST/5:30 pm EST:  Evan Moore, Senior Policy Analyst at the Foreign Policy Initiative – Iran/Secretary Kerry, ISIS’ Continued Threats, Mall of America, and Syria-bound Schoolgirls;

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EST:   Quin Hillyer, Contributing Editor of National Review magazine, a Senior Editor for The American Spectator magazine, and a nationally recognized authority on the American political process – Politics Today.

5:30 CST/6:30 pm EST:  Timothy Lee, CFIF’s Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs – FCC’s Proposed Regulation of the Internet under Title II.

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

January 26th, 2015 at 2:26 pm
This Week’s “Your Turn” Radio Lineup
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Join CFIF Corporate Counsel and Senior Vice President Renee Giachino today from 4:00 p.m. CST to 6:00 p.m. CST (that’s 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EST) 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: Ambassador Francis Rooney, former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See: Pope Francis’ “Soft Power” Diplomacy;

4:15 CDT/5:15 pm EDT: Marita Noon, Executive Director of Energy Makes America Great: Proposed Gas Tax Increase;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT: Caitlin Poling, Director of Government Relations at the Foreign Policy Initiative: Boko Haram: Africa’s Isis?;

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EDT:  Sally Pipes, President, CEO and Taube Fellow in Health Care Studies at the Pacific Research Institute: Resolutions for a Do-Something Congress; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT: Tim Lee, CFIF’s Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs: Prospective 2016 Presidential Candidates.

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December 22nd, 2014 at 2:18 pm
This Week’s “Your Turn” Radio Lineup
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Join CFIF Corporate Counsel and Senior Vice President Renee Giachino today from 4:00 p.m. CST to 6:00 p.m. CST (that’s 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EST) 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 CST/5:00 pm EST:  Leighton Steward, Chairman of Plants Need CO2 – Obama’s Push for an International Climate Agreement;

4:15 CST/5:15 pm EST:  Christopher Griffin, Executive Director of the Foreign Policy Initiative;

4:30 CST/5:30 pm EST: Sean Noble, President of American Encore – Cuba;

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EST:  Timothy Lee, CFIF’s Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs – Catch 22 for Employers; and

5:30 CST/6:30 pm EST:  Tim Wyrosdick, Santa Rosa County School Superintendent – State of the School District.

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

September 22nd, 2014 at 4:42 pm
This Week’s “Your Turn” Lineup
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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: Steve Bucci, Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign and National Security Policy at The Heritage Foundation: Should the U.S. Negotiate with ISIS?; 

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT:  Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute:  Expansion of Executive Powers

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EDT:  Timothy Lee, CFIF’s Senior Vice President for Legal and Public Affairs: The Unimportance of the U.N.’s Climate Summit; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Cleta Mitchell, Political Law Attorney and Partner in Washington, D.C. office of Foley & Lardner: The Continuing Saga of the IRS Scandal.

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August 7th, 2014 at 9:42 am
The Fate of ObamaCare and the Courts
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Timothy Lee, Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs at CFIF, discusses the recent contradictory federal appeals court rulings on ObamaCare subsidies and what they mean for consumers and the ultimate fate of ObamaCare.

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June 13th, 2014 at 12:47 pm
Podcast: The Gov’t Should Keep Its Regulatory Hands Off the Internet
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Timothy Lee, CFIF’s Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs, discusses net neutrality and the misguided push to have the federal government regulate the Internet.

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June 2nd, 2014 at 2:17 pm
This Week’s “Your Turn” Radio Lineup
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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 —  Daren Bakst, Research Fellow in Agricultural Policy, Heritage Foundation:  New School Lunch Requirements and Michelle Obama;

4:15 CDT/5:15 pm EDT — Megan L. Brown, Parnter, Wiley Rein LLP, Washington, D.C.:  Supreme Court Round-Up;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT —  Erin Murphy, Parnter, Bancroft PLLC, Washington, D.C.:  McCutcheon v. FEC;

4:45 CDT/5:45 pm EDT —  Paul Kersey, Director of Labor Policy, Illinois Policy Institute:  Unions and Home Healthcare Givers;

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EDT —  Guest T.B.A.:  Obama Administration, Air Pollution and Global Warming;  and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT — Timothy Lee, Senior Vice President, Legal and Public Affairs, CFIF:  Net Neutrality.

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

November 18th, 2013 at 2:56 pm
RADIO SHOW LINEUP: CFIF’s Renee Giachino Hosts “Your Turn” on WEBY Radio 1330 AM
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Join CFIF Corporate Counsel and Senior Vice President Renee Giachino today from 4:00 p.m. CST to 6:00 p.m. CST (that’s 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EST) on Northwest Florida’s 1330 AM WEBY, as she hosts her radio show, “Your Turn: Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense.”  Today’s guest lineup includes:

4:00 CST/5:00 pm EST:  Peter Ferrara, Carleson Center for Public Policy Senior Fellow – Global Warming and Obamacare are Costing Americans Jobs and Liberties;

4:30 CST/5:30 EST:  Jennifer Gratz, Co-Founder of the XIV Foundation and Equal Protection Advocates – Race Preferences in College Admissions;

5:00 CST/6:00 pm EST:  Aloysius Hogan, Senior Fellow at Competitive Enterprise Institute – Right to Work Amendment; and

5:30 CST/6:30 pm EST:  Timothy Lee, CFIF Senior Vice President – America’s Copyright Protections.

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July 29th, 2013 at 2:44 pm
THIS WEEK’s RADIO SHOW LINEUP: CFIF’s Renee Giachino Hosts “Your Turn” on WEBY Radio 1330 AM
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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:  Bob Dorigo Jones, Senior Fellow for the Center for America – Wacky Warning Labels;

4:30 CDT/5:30 EDT:  Richard Miniter, bestselling author and columnist – American Media Institute and Investigative Journalism;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT:  Avik Roy, Senior Fellow at Manhattan Institute – Unworkable ObamaCare; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Timothy Lee, Senior Vice President at CFIF – Detroit vs. Houston.

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May 6th, 2013 at 4:02 pm
THIS WEEK’s RADIO SHOW LINEUP: CFIF’s Renee Giachino Hosts “Your Turn” on WEBY Radio 1330 AM
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Join CFIF Corporate Counsel and Senior Vice President Renee Giachino today from 4:00 p.m. CST to 6:00 p.m. CST (that’s 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EST) 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:  Dr. David Muhlhausen, Research Fellow in Empirical Policy Analysis for The Heritage Foundation — Government Waste;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT:  Dennis Lynch, Founder and CEO of TV360Media — “They Come to America II: The Cost of Amnesty” and Immigration Reform;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT:  Sam Kazman, General Counsel, Competitive Enterprise Institute — Small Business Owners Sue Over IRS ObamaCare Power Grab; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  Timothy Lee, Senior Vice President at CFIF — Current Events at Home (Internet Taxation) and Abroad (Benghazi News and Syria/Israel).

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

March 29th, 2013 at 12:25 pm
More on Affirmative Action

Tim’s column on the Michigan affirmative action case is not just right on target, but superb.

I particularly like this section:

So [according to those who filed suit to force Michigan to continue racial-preference policies], non-discrimination is discriminatory?

And states across the nation must suddenly reinstate racial preferences?

Such a result is untenable judicially, logically or linguistically, and the Supreme Court has accepted the opportunity to restore reason to the matter.  Curt Levey, counsel of record in the 2003 cases challenging Michigan’s race-based admissions policies, captured the issue well:  “The Fourteenth Amendment, lest we lose sight of the forest for the trees, does not require what it barely permits.”

Or, as stated by Chief Justice John Roberts in a 2007 affirmative action case, “The way to end discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.”

That is exactly what Michigan voters overwhelmingly attempted to do.  It is now the Supreme Court’s task to affirm that the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause actually means what it says.

Another excellent, concise summary of the issues at stake comes in the line from Hans von Spakovsky’s blog post for the Heritage Foundation: “The Sixth Circuit’s decision cannot be justified under the law because it turns the Equal Protection Doctrine on its head, holding that when a state bans unequal treatment under the law it somehow violates the concept of equal protection under the law.”

This isn’t just some abstruse legal argument — and it has practical applications beyond just those students who will be directly affected by the decision. As I’ve found in many years of battling against the vestiges of racism by whites against blacks, no single public policy is more likely to give white racists reason to self-justify their noxious attitudes than is a regime of racial preferences. If take away “affirmative action” — which, for both moral and legal reasons, we should indeed take away — we won’t, of course, cure racists of their racism, but we will further isolate them, further shame them, and further take away their willingness to openly state or act on their racism, because they will no longer be able to cite “affirmative action” as an excuse for them to feel unfairly treated just for being white. Moreover, I’ve found that it’s amazing how many people will actually change their ill behavior if they no longer think they can justify it in what they consider to be polite company.

Racial preferences sometimes stigmatize the recipients, often (as per U.S. Civil Rights Commission Gail Heriot) harm their own interests, and greatly exacerbate racial tensions. For all those reasons, as well as for the excellent reasons put forth by Tim, the time has come for such preferences to end.

January 4th, 2013 at 8:40 am
Podcast: The Impacts of Rampant Intellectual Property Theft
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CFIF’s Timothy Lee discusses increased enforcement activities against counterfeit goods and pirated music and movies, the detrimental impact such goods have on innovation, and the intellectual and historical roots of copyright law.

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December 10th, 2012 at 2:52 pm
THIS WEEK’s RADIO SHOW LINEUP: CFIF’s Renee Giachino Hosts “Your Turn” on WEBY Radio 1330 AM
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Join CFIF Corporate Counsel and Senior Vice President Renee Giachino today from 4:00 p.m. CST to 6:00 p.m. CST (that’s 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EST) 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 (CST)/5:00 pm (EST):  Alex Cortes, Director of Let Freedom Ring:  Spending Cuts and Ongoing Fiscal Cliff Discussions;

4:30 (CST)/5:30 pm (EST):  Brad Bailey, Founder, Texas Immigration Solution:  Immigration and Texas as the GOP model;

5:00 (CST)/6:00 pm (EST):  Robert Knight, Senior Fellow for the American Civil Rights Union: ACLU’s war on Christmas and other religious observances;  and

5:30 (CST)/6:30 pm (EST):  Timothy Lee, Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs at CFIF:  Intellectual Property, counterfeit goods, and generics.

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

October 15th, 2012 at 3:58 pm
THIS WEEK’s RADIO SHOW LINEUP: CFIF’s Renee Giachino Hosts “Your Turn” on WEBY Radio 1330 AM
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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):  Ryan Wiggins, Field Director for American Majority Action’s Pensacola Liberty Headquarters:  Engaging Citizens in the Political Process;

4:30 (CDT)/5:30 pm (EDT):  Stephen Pociask, President, American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research:  Cost of Going Green and LEED;

5:00 (CDT)/6:00 pm (EDT):  Bay Buchanan, Political Strategist, Pundit and Author:  Election 2012;  and

5:30 (CDT)/6:30 pm (EDT):  Timothy Lee, CFIF:  TalktoYourPilot.com and SCOTUS Affirmative Action Case.

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