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Lockheed Crosses the Delaware

In this, the hair of the dog week of the holiday season, there's cause for good cheer on the Pennsylvania-New Jersey border. That's where Lockheed Martin pledged $400,000 to keep alive the state park commemorating George Washington's daring 1776 Christmas crossing of the Delaware River -- a bold act that led to the colonies' victories in the battles of Trenton and Princeton, and breathed life into what looked like a losing American cause.

I have to admit an emotional attachment to this issue. A year ago, in the waning days of the Bush Administration, I used the Christmas version of the President's radio address to tout the amazing story of Washington's Crossing to the American people. With the holiday weekend allowing a rare respite from the White House's around-the-clock schedule, I spent…[more]

December 28, 2009 • 11:27 pm
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Google’s Spider Web of Ties to the Obama Administration Print E-mail
By CFIF Staff
Tuesday, October 27 2009

Obama's FCC and Net Neutrality – Merely a Trick on Internet Users or Just a Treat for Google?

WASHINGTON, DC – As President Obama’s FCC moves forward to impose burdensome Net Neutrality regulations on the Internet and just in time for Halloween, the Center for Individual Freedom (“CFIF”) today released the following illustration highlighting the intricate web between the Obama Administration and Google, a leading supporter of Net Neutrality.  The illustration raises the question: Is Net Neutrality merely a trick on Internet users or just a treat for Google’s welfare?

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“When Google went trick-or-treating at the White House, it appears they ended up with a little bit of both,” said Timothy Lee, CFIF’s Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs. “Google employees were treated to Administration jobs where they are pushing a trick on the American public in the form of ‘Net Neutrality.’

“Net Neutrality may sound harmless, but it’s actually another attempt by big government to needlessly regulate the private sector,” added Lee. “In this case, Net Neutrality not so coincidentally serves the short-sighted self interests of Google, which seeks to freeload on the backs of ordinary Internet consumers.

“How did so many Google employees end up in an Administration that promised it wouldn't be beholden to corporate interests, anyway?” Lee concluded.

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