Hollywood drama typically remains centered in sunny California and in our homes and theaters. This…
CFIF on X CFIF on YouTube
A Welcome Chance for the U.S. Senate to Help the Trump Deregulatory Economy on the Netflix/Warner Bros. Discovery Deal

Hollywood drama typically remains centered in sunny California and in our homes and theaters.

This week, however, offers a convergence between the entertainment industry and an opportunity for the Congress to assist the Trump Administration's success on accelerating the U.S. economy through its deregulatory agenda.

Specifically, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is conducting a hearing on the proposed Netflix-Warner Brothers transaction, and the overarching theme should remain how allowing the free market, open competition and American innovation offer the best path to job creation and economic growth.

In other words:  The federal government should avoid needless interference in a mutually beneficial transaction between private parties.

Throughout the Biden Administration, we…[more]

February 03, 2026 • 09:52 AM

Liberty Update

CFIFs latest news, commentary and alerts delivered to your inbox.
Free to Lie, but not to Opine?
By Quin Hillyer
Thursday, November 03 2011
Imagine a country where outside groups could be punished for offering their opinion about the effects of a government official’s actions, while the government itself could knowingly lie with impunity about whether a document even exists. We would see a political opinion punished as a lie while something that is indisputably a lie would be protected by law. Alice, meet Looking Glass; or Cossack, meet Lenin. This may be the state of law in today’s America. The first case involves a former congressman actually suing an interest group for defamation, merely for running advertisements…
 
Contempt for the Governed: Obama’s End-Run Around the Democratic Process
President Obama is a man for whom the founding legacy of the United States seems little more than a perpetual…
Read more...
Congressman to Bureaucrats: “Stop Sitting on Our Assets”
When it comes to underutilized federal properties, Rep. Jeff Denham (R-CA) offers a simple solution:…
Read more...
 
Poll: Support for Gun Control Falls to Record Low
Not all current societal trends are negative, although it’s often easy to overlook that fact. …
Read more...
Federal Workforce Savings Made Easy
No good reason exists, none whatsoever, for Congress’ budgetary “supercommittee” to…
Read more...
 
Blow up the Boxes: GOP Presidential Candidates are Getting Bold on Tax Reform
By any fair estimate, the 2012 Republican presidential contest has been whittled down to four serious…
Read more...
While Federal Spending Hit New Record in 2011, Washington, D.C. Became America’s Wealthiest City
Here’s an irony.  How is it that the only location in America immune from belt-tightening…
Read more...
 
Obama’s 5 (Most Recent) Dumb Statements
For a president allegedly as eloquent as Barack Obama, it’s amazing to hear the nonsense that escapes…
Read more...
Obama’s “Occupy Wall Street” Problem: He Is the One Percent
The American people – always astute given a long enough time horizon – seem to have determined…
Read more...
 
Bama Boosts Borders: The Immigration Controversy
Note: I host a weekly radio show on Thursday nights on WAVH-FM in Mobile, AL. Last week’s topic…
Read more...
9-9-9 Trial Balloons: Popped
Herman Cain’s vaunted 9-9-9 tax proposal is brilliant in theory, and in a political vacuum. In…
Read more...
Notable Quote   
 
"The North American grid watchdog Thursday published its annual long-term reliability assessment, and the analysis offers a sharp warning about the growing threat of blackouts across much of the United States in the coming years.'The overall resource adequacy outlook for the North American BPS is worsening: In the 2025 LTRA [long-term reliability assessment], NERC finds that 13 of 23 assessment areas…[more]
 
 
— Kevin Killough, Just the News
 
Liberty Poll   

Do you believe Tom Homan, Trump Administration Border Czar, will be able to increase the effectiveness of and reduce state and local interference with ICE operations?