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Liberty Update

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

Senik:  On Foreign Policy, An Unteachable President

Lee:  Obama's 2015 Budget Rejects Compromise, Cements Disastrous Legacy

Ellis:  Honest Medicare Reform Impossible So Long as President Refuses to Follow the Law

Podcast:  Understanding the Federal Debt Ceiling

Jester’s Courtroom:  McMental Anguish

Editorial Cartoons:  Latest Cartoons of Michael Ramirez

Quiz:  Question of the Week

Notable Quotes:  Quotes of the Week

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Jester's CourtroomLegal tales stranger than stranger than fiction: Ridiculous and sometimes funny lawsuits plaguing our courts.
From “You Didn’t Build That!” to “I Didn’t Set a Red Line,” a Deepening Crisis of American Leadership
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, September 05 2013
The rhetorical tic, “Let me be clear” infects nearly every statement that Barack Obama makes.  Yet then he turns around and disavows earlier statements in which he was abundantly clear.  This was Obama one year ago on August 20, 2012, when asked about Syria:  “I have, at this point, not ordered military engagement in the situation.  But the point that you made about chemical and biological weapons is critical.  That’s an issue that doesn’t just concern Syria.  It concerns our close allies in the region, including Israel.  It concerns…
 
America’s Fascist Moment
In an age prone to political overstatement, words have a tendency to lose their currency. How many times…
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Special ObamaCare Subsidies for Unions Might Be Next
After a very public campaign of complaints saying that the Affordable Care Act (i.e. ObamaCare) would…
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In Syria, An Invitation for Disappointment
Nearly half a decade after he won the presidency, we can now look back on Barack Obama’s rise to…
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MLK, Obama, Biden and the Miniaturization of Language
“WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed…
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A Conservative Alternative to ObamaCare
One of the reasons Republicans have had such a difficult time uniting around a single alternative to…
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Australia Might Not Even Exist Without U.S. “Guns on the Ground”
“90% of white ppl are nasty.  #HATE THEM” That was the racist April 29 tweet of James…
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Kneeling Before Leviathan: The Rise of the Administrative State
When it comes to conservative bon mots, former President Gerald Ford isn’t usually thought of as…
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Media Continues to Misreport ObamaCare Employer Mandate Calculation
Perhaps the biggest – and costliest – misunderstood ObamaCare regulation is the so-called…
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Two Humiliating New Judicial Defeats for Obama Administration, in Remarkably Harsh Language
“The President and federal agencies may not ignore statutory mandates or prohibitions merely because…
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How ObamaCare Is Killing Labor Unions
As ObamaCare’s implementation draws near, the costs to unions could be fatal. For private-sector…
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Question of the Week   
The term “Iron Curtain” was first used by which one of the following individuals to describe the harsh policies of the Soviet Union?
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Quote of the Day   
 
"What a small and politically vicious man New York's new mayor is. Bill de Blasio doesn't like charter schools. ...  Some 70,000 of the city's one million students, most black or Hispanic, attend charter schools, mostly in poorer neighborhoods. Charter schools are privately run but largely publicly financed. Their teachers are not unionized. Their students usually outscore their counterparts at conventional…[more]
  
 
—Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal Columnist
— Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal Columnist
 
Liberty Poll   

What should the U.S. House of Representatives do with regard to Lois Lerner’s refusal to testify about the IRS scandal?