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

Senik:  The Cheney Way: Why Washington Needs More Anti-Heroes
Lee:  Latest IRS Data: Wealthier Americans Again Paid More than Their “Fair Share”
Ellis:  The Scourge of Public Employee Compensation

Freedom Minute Video:  Liberals Running Scared from the Conservative Comeback
Podcast:  SCOTUS Opens October 2010 Term with New Face and New Cases
Jester’s Courtroom:  Born to Golf

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

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

Release:  CFIF’s “One More Vote” Campaign Launches Ad in Support of a Balanced Federal Budget with No New Taxes
Lee:  Spend, Then Tax: Like Killing One’s Parents, Then Pleading for Mercy as an Orphan
Senik:  Obama’s New Stimulus – Bailing Out the Classified Section
Ellis:  Conservative Latinos Launch Bus Tour for Carly Fiorina

Freedom Minute Video:  The Duty to Remain Silent – Liberals Stifle Free Speech on ObamaCare
Podcast:  Campaign to Force Washington to Stop the Excessive Spending
Jester’s Courtroom:  Sweet Dreams Are Not Made of This

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

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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 Economic Civil War
Lee:  Obama: We Can Afford Failed $814 Billion “Stimulus,” But Not $700 Billion Tax Relief?  
Ellis:  Utah Congressional Candidate Morgan Philpot: Pushing Back Against Federal Restrictions on Land Use
Ellis:  Maryland Congressional Candidate Charles Lollar Combines Tea Party Zeal with GOP Base

Freedom Minute Video:  Driving the Car Into the Ditch: Obama Can’t Keep His Hands off the Auto Industry
Podcast:  Campaign to Stop ‘Net Neutrality,’ Internet Regulation Heats Up
Jester’s Courtroom:  When “Thank You” Isn’t Good Enough

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

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In Friday’s Liberty Update commentary “The ObamaCare Fit Hits the Shan,” we noted how quickly the negative consequences of ObamaCare are arriving in the form of higher health care spending and insurance rates.

Well, Kathleen Sebelius, President Obama’s Health and Human Services Secretary, seems to believe that she can terrify the economic laws of supply and demand into deference.  Attacking private health insurers for doing nothing more than adjusting their bottom lines to meet business realities imposed by ObamaCare mandates, Sebelius ordained:

There will be zero tolerance for this type of misinformation and unjustified rate increases.  We will not stand idly by as insurers blame their premium hikes and increased profits on the requirement that they provide consumers with basic protections.”

Karen Ignagni, who leads America’s Health Insurance Plans, provided an Economics 101 primer that Sebelius should have received in college by saying, “It’s a basic law of economics that additional benefits incur additional costs, and the impact on premiums depends on the type and amount coverage policyholders had before.”

Simple economics aside, who does Sebelius think she is?  A Soviet-era commissar who can cow American citizens and businesses by thundering such threats?  Ms. Sebelius, you’re about to receive a true lesson in “zero tolerance” when Americans head to the ballots in November.

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

Release:  CFIF Launches OneMoreVote.org Initiative on Spending, Budget Reform
Senik:  Kos and Effect: A Lesson in (Tortured) Logic from the Founder of the Daily Kos
Lee:  The ObamaCare Fit Hits the Shan: Health Insurance Costs and Spending Already Rising
Ellis:  Black Tea Party Activist Shows the Hypocrisy Behind George Soros, NAACP

Freedom Minute Video:  Remembering 9/11 from the Perspective of 9/12
Podcast:  Former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Discusses WikiLeaks Controversy
Jester’s Courtroom:  A Runaway (rather Runway) Lawsuit Against American Airlines

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

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

Lee:  Comparisons to Reagan in August 1982 Provide Obama Little Refuge
Senik:  Exclusive: The Lost First Draft of Obama’s Iraq Speech
Ellis:  An American Communist and a Soviet Defector Offer Different Interpretations of Obama at Beck Rally
CFIF Staff:  Living Social(ist): Alerting America to Dumb Government Policies

Freedom Minute Video:  Big Labor Out of Touch With Workers
Podcast:  Pamela Geller Discusses Ground Zero Mosque Controversy
Jester’s Courtroom:  A Whale of a Lawsuit for SeaWorld

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

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

Senik:  Obama Should Address the Nation on Iran, Not Iraq
Ellis:  John Boehner is Right; Obama’s Economic Policies Have Failed the American People
Lee:  While Members Suffer, Unions Waste Millions on Political Campaigns

Freedom Minute Video:  Standing Up for Israel
Podcast:  League of American Voters’ Bob Adams on Need to Extend 2001 and 2003 Tax Cuts
Jester’s Courtroom:  A Real Lawsuit from the Virtual World

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

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

Lee:  Obama: “Driving Us Out of a Ditch,” or Setting the Car on Fire? 
Senik:  Tea Party Must be an Intellectual Movement First, a Political Movement Second
Ellis:  Pasadena Patriots Show Republicans How to Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way

Freedom Minute Video:  Pelosi’s Folly: We Learned What’s in the Healthcare Bill
Podcast:  Author Lee Edwards Discusses “William F. Buckley Jr., The Maker of a Movement”
Jester’s Courtroom:  Coffee, Tea…or a Lawsuit?

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

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

Lee:  Why We’re Boiling Over: Federal Salaries Now Twice That of Private Sector
Senik:  Message to Congress: Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There!
Ellis:  Investment Fund Shows That Betting Against Congress is a Great Way to Make Money

Freedom Minute Video:  A Volt Out of the Blue
Podcast:  CFIF Contributing Editor Discusses “Field Guide for Patriot Activists”
Jester’s Courtroom:  Seven-Year-Old’s Lemonade Stand Shut Down for License Violation

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

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

Lee:  ObamaCare Loses in Two Courts, not Just One
Senik:  2010: A Time for Choosing
Ellis:  Happy Birthday, Mr. President – The Nation Is in Shambles

Freedom Minute Video:  Obama’s Top 10 Birthday Wishes
Podcast:  The Media and DOJ’s Bias in the Black Panther Case
Jester’s Courtroom:  Robber Sues Victim

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

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

Lee:  Raising Taxes on “The Rich” Will Harm the Economy
Senik:  Please, Liberals, No More “Teachable Moments”
Ellis:  Democrats Launch Suicide Mission to Equate Tea Party with GOP

Freedom Minute Video:  Beware the Lame Duck Session
Podcast:  An Update on Gun Rights and Obama’s Cozy Relationship with BP
Jester’s Courtroom:  Full Court Press Against LeBron James by Washington D.C. Lawyer

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

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

Lee:  John Lott: More Guns, Still Less Crime
Senik:  Getting to Yes: Republicans Don’t Need Ideas to Win, But They Need Them to Govern
Ellis:  A Tale of Two California Cities Provides Bellwether for Golden State’s Future
Action Alert:  Stop the BP Bailout

Freedom Minute Video:  Berwick’s Recess Appointment – A Faulty Prescription for Health Care
Podcast:  Interview with Sara Carter, National Security Correspondent at The Washington Examiner
Jester’s Courtroom:  Lawsuit a Shot in the Dark

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

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

Senik:  The Public Pension Time Bomb: Coming Soon to a State Near You
Lee:  Obama’s BP Spill Commission Places Partisanship Above Progress
Ellis:  Does Britain’s Coalition Government Show the Way to Enact the Tea Party’s Agenda?
Lee:  If Liberals Ban Capital Punishment, Next They’ll Target Life Imprisonment
Release:  CFIF Files Lawsuit Challenging Constitutionality of Illinois’ Campaign Finance Law

Freedom Minute Video:  Gulf Oil Spill – From Hope to Audacity
Podcast:  Interview with Florida State Representative Matt Gaetz on BP Oil Spill
Jester’s Courtroom:  They’re Not Fruit?

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

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

Senik:  20 Questions for the Obama Regime
Ellis:  Eric Holder’s Department of Injustice
Lee:  World to Obama: No, You Just Don’t Get It

Freedom Minute Video:  Repeal ObamaCare Before It’s Too Late
Podcast:  Interview with Megan Brown of Wiley Rein LLP on the Recent Supreme Court Term
Jester’s Courtroom:  Student Debt Relief Plan: Sue Dad

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

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

Senik:  David Petraeus: An Indispensable Man for an Impossible Mission?
Ellis:  Obama Administration Fails at Leadership; Opts for Lawsuits Instead
Lee:  Obama Realizing the Presidency Isn’t a Videogame

Freedom Minute Video:  Obama’s Recovery Summer
Podcast:  Interview with Quin Hillyer, senior editorial writer at the Washington Times and senior editor of The American Spectator
Jester’s Courtroom:  Unhappy Meals

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

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

Senik:  Obama’s Oval Office Infomercial
Lee:  “Net Neutrality” – Regulating Like It’s 1934
Ellis:  Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: A Case Study on the Limits of Government

Freedom Minute Video:  The Green Bailout
Podcast:  Santa Rosa County (FL) Commissioner Gordon Goodin Discusses Oil Disaster in Gulf
Jester’s Courtroom:  Bingo Lawsuit Doesn’t Pay

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

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

Senik:  Sailing Under a White Flag: The High Seas Expose the Weakness of Obama’s Foreign Policy
Lee:  Survey Says: Liberals Stingier, Stupider Than Conservatives
Ellis:  Obama’s Weatherization Assistance Program Yet Another Example of Fraud and Abuse
CFIF Staff:  Casualties of the Mexican Border War

Freedom Minute Video:  The Obama Doctrine … Rejected
Podcast:  The FCC’s Unprecedented Attempt to Regulate the Internet
Jester’s Courtroom:  Seinfeld’s Wife Did Not Cook the Books

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

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

Lee:  “Guns Is Not the Answer” – Shoot an Armed Home Invader, Invite the Wrath of Chicago’s Mayor?
Ellis:  Will Boston Boycott Massachusetts?
Senik:  “The Boss” Takes Charge in New Jersey
CFIF Staff:  Obama’s Waterloo? Katrina? Iranian Hostage Crisis? Bay of Pigs? Watergate? Killer Rabbit?

Freedom Minute Video:  Unanswered Questions About the Sestak Deal
Podcast:  Florida State Senator Discusses BP Oil Spill
Jester’s Courtroom:  Pedestrian Sues Google for Bad Directions

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

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

Senik:  The Unbearable Lightness of Being Eric Holder
Ellis:  Feds Unveil a “Friends & Funding” Program for American Islamist Mosque
CFIF Staff:  Just Shut Up about Arizona, Mr. President

Freedom Minute Video:  California Dreaming on Arizona’s Immigration Law
Podcast:  Interview with Ellen Fitzpatrick on her new book, Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation
Jester’s Courtroom:  No More Free Doughnuts and Coffee

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

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

Senik:  Five Good Ideas from Conservative U.S. Senate Candidates
Lee:  “Net Neutrality” Regulation: Obama’s Imperious FCC Shifts to Plan B  
Ellis:  The Facts About the Failed Times Square Bomber: Why the Liberal Establishment Can’t Face Reality
CFIF Staff:  I Read the News Today, Oh Boy!

Freedom Minute Video:  Then They Came for the Internet
Podcast:  Author Discusses How Afghan President Hamid Karzai Came to Power
Jester’s Courtroom:  Man Sues Goldman Sachs for Giving Good Advice

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

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