{"id":15095,"date":"2012-07-13T10:50:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T14:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15095"},"modified":"2012-07-13T10:32:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T14:32:21","slug":"this-weeks-liberty-update-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15095\/this-weeks-liberty-update-98\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week&#8217;s Liberty Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/maildir\/stock\/header-wide-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Center For Individual Freedom - Liberty Update\" width=\"700\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s edition of the <em>Liberty Update<\/em>, CFIF\u2019s weekly e-newsletter, is out. Below is a summary of its contents:<\/p>\n<p>Lee:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/53-employment-and-labor\/1495-while-labor-costs-drive-more-cities-into-bankruptcy-union-political-spending-four-times-higher-than-earlier-estimates\" target=\"_blank\">Labor Costs Drive More Cities into Bankruptcy, Union Political Spending Four Times Higher Than Earlier Estimates<br \/>\n<\/a>Ellis:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/56-health-care\/1496-conservative-governors-are-right-to-resist-medicaid-expansion\" target=\"_blank\">Conservative Governors Are Right to Resist Medicaid Expansion<br \/>\n<\/a>Senik:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/48-education\/1492-republican-governors-leading-nationwide-charge-on-education-reform\" target=\"_blank\">Republican Governors Leading Nationwide Charge on Education Reform<br \/>\n<\/a>Hillyer:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/42-constitution-and-legal\/1483-john-roberts-travesty-point-by-point\" target=\"_blank\">John Roberts&#8217; Travesty, Point by Point<br \/>\n<\/a>Hillyer:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/44-energy-and-environment\/1491-time-to-punish-ecuadors-stock-in-trade\" target=\"_blank\">Time to Punish Ecuador&#8217;s Stock in Trade<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Video:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary?v=170\" target=\"_blank\">CFIF on Fox &amp; Friends &#8211; Minority Status for Arab-Americans: Political Correctness Gone Wild?<\/a><br \/>\nPodcast:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary?a=217\" target=\"_blank\">ObamaCare Repeal and Replace: How, When and Why? <\/a><br \/>\nJester\u2019s Courtroom:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/jesters-courtroom\/1490-fly-ball-lands-little-leaguer-in-court\" target=\"_blank\">Fly Ball Lands Little Leaguer in Court<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Editorial Cartoons:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary?c=1252\" target=\"_blank\">Latest Cartoons of Michael Ramirez<br \/>\n<\/a>Quiz:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/commentary\/questions\" target=\"_blank\">Question of the Week<\/a><br \/>\nNotable Quotes:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/commentary\/notable-quotes\" target=\"_blank\">Quotes of the Week<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are not already signed up to receive CFIF\u2019s <em>Liberty Update<\/em> by e-mail, <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/newsletter-sign-up\" target=\"_blank\">sign up here<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s edition of the Liberty Update, CFIF\u2019s weekly e-newsletter, is out. Below is a summary of its contents: Lee:\u00a0 Labor Costs Drive More Cities into Bankruptcy, Union Political Spending Four Times Higher Than Earlier Estimates Ellis:\u00a0 Conservative Governors Are Right to Resist Medicaid Expansion Senik:\u00a0 Republican Governors Leading Nationwide Charge on Education Reform Hillyer:\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[227],"class_list":["post-15095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-liberty-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15097,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15095\/revisions\/15097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}