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March 29th, 2019 at 10:49 am
Want Green Power? Go Nuclear.
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In our Liberty Update this week, CFIF highlights how this week’s Senate vote on leftists’ “Green New Deal” once again exposed their hypocrisy.  We note how if climate alarmists really meant what they said, they’d support nuclear power, which offers carbon-free, reliable, safe power.  In a Wall Street Journal piece entitled “The Nuclear Option Is the Real Green Deal,” nuclear scientists John Rie and Alan Emery further detail nuclear power’s record of safety:

Is nuclear power dangerous?  The only major nuclear accident in the U.S. – Three Mile Island, in 1979 – caused neither death nor increase in cancer areawide.  The 2011 ‘disaster’ at the Fukushima plant in Japan also directly caused neither deaths nor disease from exposure to radiation.

World-wide, there have been fewer than 150 deaths from nuclear plants, mostly from the 1986 Chernobyl accident, in which bad design and a series of operator errors led to a significant release of radiation into the environment.  Thanks to the Soviet government’s attempt to keep it secret, lifesaving efforts such as the provision of iodine pills to local residents never happened.”

 

March 25th, 2019 at 10:48 am
Notable Quote: Why Americans Care About Israel
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As the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 2019 Policy Conference continues in Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh carpet salesman Lou Weiss offers a cogent summary in The Wall Street Journal echoing CFIF’s recent commentary on why Americans care about, and should continue to care about, Israel:

AIPAC is driven by the Smiths, the Joneses and the Sanchezes, Americans who intuitively grasp the importance of support for the Jewish state.  Some admire Israel as a plucky democracy standing up for deeply American values of liberty and pluralism.  For others it’s Israel’s progressive treatment of women and gays.  Some see Israel on the front lines of the war on terror and want to help it fight back.  Others admire Israel because the Hebrew Bible states that those who bless Abraham and his great nation will themselves be blessed.  Is it purely a coincidence that America, the most successful country in history, treats its Jews better than any other nation ever has?”

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March 19th, 2019 at 12:57 pm
Image of the Day: American Exceptionalism
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Another nice illustration of American Exceptionalism.  We’re just 4% of the world’s population, but a quarter of its prosperity:

American Exceptionalism, Cont'd

American Exceptionalism, Cont’d

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March 18th, 2019 at 3:29 pm
This Week’s “Your Turn” Radio Lineup
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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/99.1FM 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:  Hans von Spakovsky, Manager, Election Law Reform Initiative and Senior Legal Fellow, Meese Center for Legal and Judicial

Studies – Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Possible Campaign Finance Violations;

4:15 CDT/5:15 pm EDT:  Iain Murray, Vice President for Strategy and Senior Fellow – Elizabeth Warren’s Plan to Break Up Big Tech;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT:  Quin Hillyer, Associate Editor of the Washington Examiner and Nationally Recognized Authority on the American Political

Process – Should DOJ Reopen Case Against Hillary Clinton?

4:45 CDT/5:45 pm EDT:  Heather Mac Donald, Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute – What the College Admissions Scandal Reveals about the Culture of Higher Education;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT:  Marc Levin, Vice President of Criminal Justice at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and Right on Crime – Why Second Chances Matter;

5:15 CDT/6:15 pm EDT:  Andrew Moylan, Executive Vice President of National Taxpayers Union Foundation – Extending Tax Filing Deadlines; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT:  William J. Conti, Partner at Baker & Hostetler – 2020 Conventions and Democratic and Republican Presidential Candidates.

 

Listen live on the Internet here Talkradio 99.1. Call in to share your comments or ask questions of today’s guests at (850) 623-1330.

 

March 12th, 2019 at 3:35 pm
Image of the Day: Liberals’ Israel Problem
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Amid a troubling increase in anti-Semitic behavior from the left both in the U.S. and across the Pond, a Pew Research image illustrates an undeniable and disturbing turn against Israel by liberals:

Liberals' Israel Problem

Liberals’ Israel Problem

 

March 4th, 2019 at 4:13 pm
Image of the Day: Greenpeace Founder Takes Down Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC)
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So “Green New Deal” fanatic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D – New York) apparently doesn’t practice what she preaches, as her extravagant personal carbon use doesn’t accord with what she advocates for everyone else.  Now, Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore just absolutely takes her apart on the matter:

AOC, the

AOC, the “Green” Hypocrite

 

That’s gonna leave a mark.

March 4th, 2019 at 3:49 pm
This Week’s “Your Turn” Radio Show Lineup
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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/99.1FM 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: Dr. Lee Edwards, Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought, B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics, Institute for Constitutional Government: Socialism Today;

4:15 CDT/5:15 pm EDT: David B. Rivkin, Jr., Partner at Baker & Hostetler: Congress and the Investigation of a President;

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT: David Keating, President, Institute for Free Speech: HR1;

4:45 CDT/5:45 pm EDT: Christopher C. Horner, Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute: Multi-State Scheme to Run Private Investigations through State AG Offices;

5:00 CDT/6:00 pm EDT: Tzvi Kahn, Senior Iran Analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies: Iran and President Trump’s Foreign Policy Report Card;

5:15 CDT/6:15 pm EDT: Steve Milloy, Founder and Publisher of JunkScience.com: Bad Science and Paper Receipts; and

5:30 CDT/6:30 pm EDT: Timothy Lee, CFIF’s Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs: ATT/TimeWarner Merger and Latest on 5G.

Listen to Talkradio 99.1 live on the Internet here. Call in to share your comments or ask questions of today’s guests at (850) 623-1330.

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