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Below is one of the latest cartoons from two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Ramirez.

View more of Michael Ramirez’s cartoons on CFIF’s website here.

Below is one of the latest cartoons from two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Ramirez.

View more of Michael Ramirez’s cartoons on CFIF’s website here.

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): Fran Smith, Board Member and Adjunct Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute: Cuts to Food Stamp and Nutrition Programs;

4:30 (CST)/5:30 (EST): Christine Harbin-Hanson, National Policy Analyst at Americans for Prosperity: ObamaCare and Exempt Me;

5:00 (CST)/6:00 pm (EST): Lacy Crawford, author of “Early Decision”: College Admissions Frenzy; and

5:30 (CST)/6:30 pm (EST): Timothy Lee, Senior Vice President at CFIF: Expanding Size and Power of Federal Government and the Obama Administration’s Independent NSA Review Board.

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

In an interview with CFIF, Sally Pipes, President and CEO and Taube Fellow in Health Care Studies at the Pacific Research Institute, discusses the proposed October 1 commencement of ObamaCare’s health insurance exchanges and how increased medical costs and other costs associated with the Affordable Care Act have forced large corporate and university employers to cut health coverage benefits.

Listen to the interview here.

Below is one of the latest cartoons from two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Ramirez.

View more of Michael Ramirez’s cartoons on CFIF’s website here.

Below is one of the latest cartoons from two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Ramirez.

View more of Michael Ramirez’s cartoons on CFIF’s website here.

In an interview with CFIF, Captain Glenn Sulmasy, Fellow for Homeland and National Security Law at the Center for National Policy, discusses whether President Obama has the constitutional authority to strike Syria without Congressional approval, the chances of an escalation of hostilities in Syria if America does strike, and Russia’s latest proposal regarding Syria’s chemical weapons.

Listen to the interview here.

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

Senik:  America’s Fascist Moment
Ellis:  Colorado Recall a Wake-Up Call to Overreaching Liberals
Lee:  Another Embarrassing Judicial Defeat for the Obama Administration

Podcast:  Executive Power and Syria
Jester’s Courtroom:  Prisoner Not Barred from Filing Frivolous Lawsuit

Editorial Cartoons:  Latest Cartoons of Michael Ramirez
Quiz:  Question of the Week
Notable Quotes:  Quotes of the Week

If you are not already signed up to receive CFIF’s Liberty Update by e-mail, sign up here.

In an interview with CFIF, Richard Miniter, President of the American Media Institute, discusses the importance of investigative reporting and today’s biggest stories dealing with violations of public trust, government, business and labor.

Listen to the interview here.

Michael Ramirez on 9/11

Below is one of the latest cartoons from two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Ramirez.

View more of Michael Ramirez’s cartoons on CFIF’s website here.

In this week’s Freedom Minute, CFIF’s Renee Giachino discusses the failure of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act and explains that “government has neither the right nor the ability to make our personal, private decisions for us.”

Below is one of the latest cartoons from two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Ramirez.

View more of Michael Ramirez’s cartoons on CFIF’s website here.

Below is one of the latest cartoons from two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Ramirez.

View more of Michael Ramirez’s cartoons on CFIF’s website here.

Lance Izumi, Koret Senior Fellow and Senior Director of Education Studies at the Pacific Research Institute, discusses why 30 years after President Reagan’s groundbreaking report, “A Nation at Risk,” America’s education system continues to fail and the role unions have played in the demise of public education.

Listen to the interview here.

In this week’s Freedom Minute, CFIF’s Renee Giachino discusses the importance of the fight to defund ObamaCare.

Below is one of the latest cartoons from two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Ramirez.

View more of Michael Ramirez’s cartoons on CFIF’s website here.

In an interview with CFIF, Tim Connors, Senior Manager in the Law Enforcement and Security Division of CAAS, LLC, and former Director of the Center for Policing Terrorism at the Manhattan Institute, discusses recent U.S. embassy closings, our nation’s diminishing military presence overseas, intelligence reports and prison crowding across the country.

Listen to the interview here.

Below is one of the latest cartoons from two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Ramirez.

View more of Michael Ramirez’s cartoons on CFIF’s website here.