{"id":5981,"date":"2010-07-02T20:07:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T00:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5981"},"modified":"2010-07-02T20:07:15","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T00:07:15","slug":"yourfreedom-gov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5981\/yourfreedom-gov\/","title":{"rendered":"YourFreedom.Gov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While it may mark me a heretic to praise both an Englishman <em>and<\/em> a Liberal Democrat on the eve of the eve of the Fourth of July, I hope my recent <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/665-celebrating-everyday-americans\" target=\"_blank\">paean to Everyday Americans<\/a> evens the ledger.<\/p>\n<p>I think it has to be said that Britain\u2019s Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is the most fascinating politician in the English-speaking world.\u00a0 Unlike his rival for that title in the United States, Clegg has already made a positive contribution to the politics of his country.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Clegg announced the launch of a government website called \u201cYourFreedom.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/politics\/7864098\/Your-Freedom-Britains-liberty-is-at-stake-it-is-time-to-have-your-say.html\" target=\"_blank\">Clegg\u2019s commitment to radically reduce the size of government in Britain<\/a> in a direct reversal of the Labour Party\u2019s thirteen years of increasing control of nearly everything Brits do.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d tell you more about it, but Clegg does better than I ever could:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZeaIB2YvKhw&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xd0d0d0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZeaIB2YvKhw&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xd0d0d0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it may mark me a heretic to praise both an Englishman and a Liberal Democrat on the eve of the eve of the Fourth of July, I hope my recent paean to Everyday Americans evens the ledger. I think it has to be said that Britain\u2019s Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg is the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[405,1512,1137,56,1457,1296,1294,1455],"class_list":["post-5981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-britain","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-freedom","tag-government","tag-labour-party","tag-liberal-democrat","tag-nick-clegg","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5981"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5985,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981\/revisions\/5985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}