{"id":16980,"date":"2013-01-18T11:45:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T16:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16980"},"modified":"2013-01-18T11:24:29","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T16:24:29","slug":"this-weeks-liberty-update-117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16980\/this-weeks-liberty-update-117\/","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\/43-taxes-and-economy\/1716-2013-index-of-economic-freedom-us-declines-for-fifth-straight-year\" target=\"_blank\">2013 Index of Economic Freedom: U.S. Declines for Fifth Straight Year<br \/>\n<\/a>Ellis:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/1714-postal-service-reform-falls-short\" target=\"_blank\">Postal Service Reform Falls Short<br \/>\n<\/a>Hillyer:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/56-health-care\/1713-congress-should-act-against-mandatory-medicare\" target=\"_blank\">Congress Should Act Against Mandatory Medicare<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Freedom Minute Video:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary?v=182\" target=\"_blank\">Our Make-Believe Government<br \/>\n<\/a>Podcast:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary?a=251\" target=\"_blank\">Can Diverse Schools Simultaneously Educate all our Children?<br \/>\n<\/a>Jester\u2019s Courtroom:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/jesters-courtroom\/1715-retired-schoolteacher-fears-children-sues-school-district\" target=\"_blank\">Retired Teacher Fears Children, Sues School District<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Editorial Cartoons:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary?c=1387\" 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<br \/>\n<\/a>Notable 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 2013 Index of Economic Freedom: U.S. Declines for Fifth Straight Year Ellis:\u00a0 Postal Service Reform Falls Short Hillyer:\u00a0 Congress Should Act Against Mandatory Medicare Freedom Minute Video:\u00a0 Our Make-Believe Government Podcast:\u00a0 Can Diverse Schools Simultaneously [&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-16980","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\/16980","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=16980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16981,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16980\/revisions\/16981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}