Freedom Line Blog

In this week’s Freedom Minute, CFIF’s Renee Giachino discusses the debate over whether political discourse in the U.S. is civil enough. Giachino concludes, “Freewheeling political debate is one of the greatest gifts we have in this nation.”

In this week’s Freedom Minute, CFIF’s Renee Giachino challenges the professional cynics in Washington who continue to claim that, despite the House vote this week to repeal ObamaCare, full repeal will never become a reality.  Giachino further explains why the skeptics are missing three important points and how the House vote was indeed the beginning of the end for ObamaCare.

The election of a Republican majority in the House was supposed to stop the power grabs that were so frequent in the last Congress. But instead, all they have done is moved them out of reach of the voters. In this week’s Freedom Minute, CFIF’s Renee Giachino discusses how liberals are now trying to advance their agenda through the unelected, unaccountable federal bureaucracy.

With 2010 now behind us, CFIF’s Renee Giachino presents our predictions for the top five news stories of 2011 in this week’s Freedom Minute.  (Note: For our more serious viewers, it’s okay to laugh.)

In this week’s Freedom Minute, CFIF’s Renee Giachino discusses the Department of Education’s war on for-profit colleges and universities, and the negative impacts of its proposed “gainful employment” regulations.

In this week’s Freedom Minute, CFIF’s Renee Giachino discusses the huge breach in national security presented by WikiLeaks and the need to aggressively prosecute the website’s founder, Julian Assange.

In this week’s Freedom Minute, CFIF’s Renee Giachino discusses Democrats’ response to the midterm elections and the current state of denial of Party leaders about the message sent by voters on November 2.

Today, on behalf of a grateful nation, CFIF thanks all of our veterans for their service and sacrifice for our freedoms. 

With the midterm elections having come and gone, CFIF’s Renee Giachino takes us on a trip down memory lane to the way things were under liberal rule.  2009-2010:  In their own words.

Wondering what some liberal icons will be wearing this Halloween?  CFIF’s Renee Giachino presents you with a speculative guide on what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Vice President Joe Biden and others with be posing as this October 31.

In this week’s Freedom Minute, CFIF’s Renee Giachino discusses a new Gallup poll on how the American people view the federal government.  Here’s a hint:  The three most common phrases used were “too big,” “confused” and “corrupt.”

In this week’s Freedom Minute, CFIF’s Renee Giachino comments on the desperation tactics and outright lies of President Obama and his liberal allies against their political and ideological opponents. 

In a refreshing victory today for individual freedom, the concept of federalism and Constitutional principles, a federal judge in Florida rejected the Obama Justice Department’s request to dismiss the challenge by 20 states against ObamaCare’s unconstitutional provisions.

Among other things, Judge Roger Vinson ruled that the states can proceed in their argument that ObamaCare’s individual mandate, which forces citizens to engage in involuntary commercial transactions by purchasing insurance, violates the Constitution.  The Obama Administration, which couldn’t seem to decide whether ObamaCare passed Constitutional muster as a “tax” or under some other convenient authority, contended that the challenge should be thrown out in its entirety.  With this preliminary legal victory, the case can now proceed toward trial.

In this week’s Freedom Minute, CFIF’s Renee Giachino calls the recent departure of several senior White House staff “a good start,” then recommends further cuts in the president’s cabinet.

With the numerous negative consequences of ObamaCare starting to materialize, CFIF’s Renee Giachino discusses efforts by the administration and the Left to muzzle the bill’s opponents and victims.

President Obama has claimed time and again that he doesn’t want to run the auto industry. But his actions tell a very different story…

As Americans commemorate the anniversary 9-11, CFIF’s Renee Giachino stresses the need to remember more than the agony of that dreadful day nine years ago.  In this week’s Freedom Minute, Giachino expresses the need to remember the defiance and sense of purpose that we found on September 12.

In this week’s Freedom Minute, CFIF’s Timothy Lee discusses the recent announcement by big labor unions to spend more than $100 million on the November elections while their individual members try to make ends meet in a struggling economy.

The Obama Administration has gone out of its way to turn up its nose at America’s allies.  In this week’s Freedom Minute, CFIF’s Renee Giachino says, “No nation has felt the sting of this rejection quite as severely as Israel. … What is at stake is the very future of that nation and its people.”

Prior to ramming ObamaCare through Congress, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi infamously pledged that they had to pass the bill in order for the American people to learn what’s in it.  Now that the dust has settled, CFIF’s Renee Giachino discusses what we’ve “learned.”  It’s not pretty.