{"id":17398,"date":"2013-03-08T11:58:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T16:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17398"},"modified":"2013-03-08T11:58:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T16:58:09","slug":"this-weeks-liberty-update-122","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17398\/this-weeks-liberty-update-122\/","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>Ellis:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/45-foreign-policy\/1769-kerrys-foreign-aid-to-egypt-paving-way-for-islamic-state\" target=\"_blank\">Kerry&#8217;s Foreign Aid to Egypt Paving Way for Islamic State?<br \/>\n<\/a>Lee:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/43-taxes-and-economy\/1772-cbo-report-shows-excessive-spending-not-insufficient-taxation-explains-our-deficits\" target=\"_blank\">CBO Report Shows Excessive Spending, Not Insufficient Taxation, Explains Our Deficits<br \/>\n<\/a>Hillyer:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/43-taxes-and-economy\/1770-conservatives-have-won-some-spending-victories\" target=\"_blank\">Conservatives Have Won Some Spending Victories<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Podcast:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary?a=265\" target=\"_blank\">Do Sin Taxes Increase Public Health or the Public Coffers?<br \/>\n<\/a>Jester\u2019s Courtroom:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/jesters-courtroom\/1771-this-buds-and-lawsuit-for-you\" target=\"_blank\">This Bud&#8217;s (and Lawsuit) for You<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Editorial Cartoons:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary?c=1413\" 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: Ellis:\u00a0 Kerry&#8217;s Foreign Aid to Egypt Paving Way for Islamic State? Lee:\u00a0 CBO Report Shows Excessive Spending, Not Insufficient Taxation, Explains Our Deficits Hillyer:\u00a0 Conservatives Have Won Some Spending Victories Podcast:\u00a0 Do Sin Taxes Increase Public [&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":[],"class_list":["post-17398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17398","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=17398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17399,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17398\/revisions\/17399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}