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Timothy Lee, Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs at CFIF, discusses the increased regulatory uncertainty for the Internet sector and U.S. economy caused by FCC and Obama Administration policies, and American foreign policy in an age of uncertainty in the Middle East.

Listen to the interview here.

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):  Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Professor University of Tennessee:  “The Higher Education Bubble;”

4:30 (CDT)/5:30 pm (EDT):  Jim Phillips, Senior Research Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at Heritage Foundation:  Foreign Policy;

5:00 (CDT)/6:00 pm (EDT):  Timothy Lee, Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs at CFIF:  Supreme Court October 2011 Term Roundup;  and

5:30 (CDT)/6:30 pm (EDT):  Peter Ferrara, Carleson Center for Public Policy Fellow:  Obamacare Repeal and Replacement.

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

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):  Tim Lee, CFIF: Unions, Wisconsin and American Airlines;

4:30 (CDT)/5:30 pm (EDT):  Kevin Williamson, Editor at National Review: “The Dependency Agenda;”

5:00 (CDT)/6:00 pm (EDT):  Anthony Holm, Author: “52 Reasons Not To Vote For Obama;”  and

5:30 (CDT)/6:30 pm (EDT):  Sarah Lenti, Policy and Strategic Communications Consultant: The State Government Leadership Foundation, The Republican State Leadership Committee, and Education.

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

Timothy Lee, CFIF’s Vice President for Legal and Public Affairs, will speak at 1:15 p.m. tomorrow (Saturday, November 5) at the Defending the American Dream Summit, hosted by Americans for Prosperity.  The panel session at which Mr. Lee will speak is entitled “Keeping the Internet and Americans Safe from Illegal Foreign Rogue Websites,” in Room 209 – Track E.  Mr. Lee will appear with co-panelists Andrew Langer of the Institute for Liberty, Ryan Radia from the Competitive Enterprise Institute and panel host Steve Tepp from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

CFIF’s Liberty Update this week includes Mr. Lee’s commentary on the topic, entitled “Tea Partiers, Conservatives Should Embrace Congressional Anti-Piracy Legislation.” Please stop by for what promises to be an important discussion amid a very important summit hosted by AFP.

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):  Representatives from the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, Chapter #138 – Regarding the 70th Anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor;  

4:30 (CDT)/5:30 pm (EDT):  Sally Pipes, President, CEO, and Taube Fellow in Health Care Studies at the Pacific Research Institute – Regarding ObamaCare and the split between doctors and the AMA;

5:00 (CDT)/6:00 pm (EDT):  Timothy Lee, CFIF’s Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs – Regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s October 2012 Term and Labor Controversies within the Obama Administration; and

5:30 (CDT)/6:30 pm (EDT):  Tod Lindberg, Hoover Fellow and Editor-in-Chief of the monthly journal “Policy Review” – Regarding Military Interventionalism and Presidential Candidates.

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

CFIF Vice President for Legal and Public Affairs Timothy Lee discusses the pending debate over the debt ceiling and how lawmakers need to better understand that wealth is created rather than “distributed.”

Listen to the interview here.

This year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is set to be the biggest ever, and CFIF Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs Timothy Lee is honored to be selected as one of its speakers.

His panel, entitled “The Left’s Campaign to Reshape the Judiciary,” is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. this Friday, February 11 in the Marshall Ballroom.  Kelly Shackelford of the Liberty Institute will moderate the panel, which also includes Ken Klukowski of the American Civil Rights Union and Dan Pero of the American Justice Partnership.   Our judicial system is a primary tool by which the political left seeks to remake America to fit its distorted image, and we must remain vigilant against that scheme.  Especially with the 2012 presidential kicking off, this CPAC isn’t one to miss.

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 show “Your Turn.”  Today’s star guest lineup includes:

4:00 p.m. CST/5:00 p.m. EST:  Pete Sepp, Executive Vice President, National Taxpayers Union;

4:30 p.m. CST/5:30 p.m. EST:  Mike Carey, President of American Council for Affordable Energy, Impact of Egypt Crisis on America;

5:00 p.m. CST/6:00 p.m. EST:  Bill Bascoe, Executive Vice President, Citizens for the Republic, ObamaCare Ruling;

5:30 p.m. CST/6:30 p.m. EST:  Timothy Lee, Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs, Center for Individual Freedom, Reshaping the Judiciary and Reagan at 100.

Please share your comments, thoughts and questions at (850) 623-1330, or listen via the Internet by clicking here.  You won’t want to miss it today!

CFIF VP of Legal and Public Affairs Timothy Lee yesterday appeared on The Lars Larson radio show to discuss the effort to repeal ObamaCare. Listen to the interview below.

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 show “Your Turn.”  Today’s star guest lineup includes:

4:00 pm (CST) Virginia Scharff, author of “The Women Jefferson Loved”

4:30 pm (CST) Susan Ferrechio, Chief Congressional Correspondent for The Washington Examiner, New Congress

5:00 pm (CST) Sheriff Larry Dever, Immigration

5:30 pm (CST) Timothy Lee, Center for Individual Freedom, Deficit/Economy/Judges

Please share your comments, thoughts and questions at (850) 623-1330, or listen via the Internet by clicking here.  You won’t want to miss this!

In an op-ed published today on The Hill’s Congress Blog, CFIF Vice President Timothy Lee warns that “regardless of what occurs on November 2,”  the EPA’s regulatory agenda moving forward threatens to hit consumers and business hard and right where it hurts: their pocketbooks.

Lee writes:

When we ring in the New Year in just two short months, next week’s elections will be in our collective rear view mirror. However — regardless of what occurs on Nov. 2 — the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) campaign to impose its new round of economy-wide environmental regulations will continue in 2011. That should worry every American, because EPA’s wish list will hit consumers and business where it hurts: their pocketbooks.

Supported by an administration that has suffered defeat after defeat on Capitol Hill in its attempt to pass wholesale climate change legislation, EPA instead seeks to impose its costly and burdensome regulatory agenda through the back door. From overly complex new greenhouse gas rules to more stringent ozone standards to new mandates for recycled coal ash, unelected EPA bureaucrats hope to decree through regulatory fiat what they can’t enact through the democratic or legislative processes.

If successful, EPA’s agenda could cost American families $3,000 per year, according to Heritage Foundation estimates. …

Read the entire piece here.

In this week’s Freedom Minute, CFIF’s Timothy Lee discusses the recent announcement by big labor unions to spend more than $100 million on the November elections while their individual members try to make ends meet in a struggling economy.

Interview with CFIF’s Timothy Lee on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in McDonald v. Chicago, as well as the Obama Administration’s cozy relationship with BP.

Listen to the interview here.

The Washington Times today published an op-ed authored by Timothy Lee, CFIF’s VP of Legal and Public Affairs, on the coming Internet tax and other efforts by President Obama’s FCC to over-regulate the world wide web.

Lee writes:

The Obama Era has become a protracted, nightmarish Whack-A-Mole game of tax increases and bureaucratic self-enlargement. In sector after sector of American life, another scheme to expand government and wrench more earnings from Americans’ pockets pops up.

“Its next targeted sector?  The Internet.”

Read the entire piece on the Times’ website here.