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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.

In an interview with CFIF, Mitchell Zuckoff, Boston University professor and author of Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II, discusses his latest book and the gratitude Americans owe our brave servicemen and women.

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.

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

Lee:  Gas Prices Reach Historic Highs, Yet Liberals Insist on Raising Taxes on Domestic Oil and Gas Producers
Hillyer:  Romney, Gingrich Flunk Poli-Philosophy
Senik:  GOP Presidential Field Underscores Need for New Generation of Republican Leaders
Ellis:  ObamaCare Debate Waives Goodbye to Rule of Law
Ellis:  Invest in America, Get a Green Card?

Freedom Minute Video:  The Obama Commencement Address Preview
Podcast:  What’s Next in the War on Terror?
Jester’s Courtroom:  Not Everyone “Loves a Parade”

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

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With commencement season upon us, CFIF’s Renee Giachino speculates on the messages President Obama will deliver to this year’s college graduates.  Watch this week’s Freedom Minute below.

In an interview with CFIF, Jed Babbin, foreign policy expert and former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense, discusses what’s next in the global war on terrorism following the death of Osama bin Laden.

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.

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

Senik:  Obama Uses Immigration Reform as a Cynical Ploy
Ellis:  Obama’s Investigation of CIA Interrogators Has No Integrity
Hillyer:  Beating Rattlesnakes and Bottom Feeders: Congress Fights Frivolous Lawsuits

Freedom Minute Video:  Known and Unknown in the War on Terror
Podcast:  Climate Change: An Issue for the Political Branches of Gov’t or the Courts?
Jester’s Courtroom:  A Not-So-Happy Mother’s Day

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.

Following the successful raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, CFIF’s Renee Giachino discusses the importance of recognizing what former Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld described as the “knowns and unknowns” in the ongoing War on Terror. “What was true a decade ago is equally true today,” says Giachino, in this week’s Freedom Minute.  “In the war on terrorism, you’re either with us or against us.”

Megan L. Brown, a partner at Wiley Rein LLP in Washington, D.C., discusses American Electric Power Co., Inc. v. Connecticut, a case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court.  Brown articulates why the High Court should reject the “public nuisance” climate change claim brought by a handful of states against some of the nation’s largest electric utility companies.

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.

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

Hillyer:  To Run DNC, Wasserman Schultz Be Illin’
Ellis:  Gunrunner Scandal Beating a Path to AG Holder’s Door
Lee:  U.S. Tipping Point: 51% of Households Now Pay No Income Taxes
Senik:  Bin Laden and “The End of the Beginning”

Freedom Minute Video:  Justice, At Last
Podcast:  Early Predictions on the 2012 Presidential Field
Jester’s Courtroom:  Momentary Baby Switch Not Grounds for 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 this week’s Freedom Minute, CFIF’s Renee Giachino comments on the death of Osama bin Laden.  “Bin Laden’s death is a truly momentous moment in American history,” says Giachino. “But while we should all celebrate his demise, we must also remain vigilant in our continuing war against Islamic extremists.”

In an interview with CFIF, Bill Whalen, a fellow at the Hoover Institution, analyzes the field of potential 2012 presidential candidates, focusing particularly on political apprentice Donald Trump and Tea Party favorite Michelle Bachmann.

Listen to the interview here.

President Obama’s address to the American people on the death of Osama bin Laden.

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.

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

Lee:  More Obama “Recovery” – Economy Slows While Inflation, New Unemployment Claims Rise
Ellis:  Obama Tilting at Oil Companies, Propping Up Windmills
Senik:  Obama Administration Undermines Federalism to Prop Up Faltering Unions
Hillyer:  The Coming Bernanke-Obama Stagflation
Ellis:  Liberals’ Facebook Diplomacy

Freedom Minute Video:  Obama Gives Us the Jimmy Carter Blues
Podcast:  The Debt Ceiling and Failure of Government “Stimulus”
Jester’s Courtroom:  Delay at Toll Brings Lawsuit

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

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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.