Recently, George Landrith, president of Frontiers of Freedom Institute, joined CFIF‘s Renee Giachino to discuss the controversy surrounding the nearly $40 billion defense contract recently awarded to a consortium that includes European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) to build the U.S. military‘s fleet of next-generation aerial refueling tankers

Timothy Lee, CFIF's Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs, discusses the critical benefits offered by patent litigation reform legislation currently before Congress, including its provisions targeting ongoing venue abuse, and how reform complements rather than contradicts America's strong intellectual property rights system. 

Troy Senik, CFIF Senior Fellow, former speechwriter for George W. Bush and senior editor of Ricochet, discusses First Lady Michelle Obama's push for new FDA nutritional labeling guidelines and the lessons learned from California's regime of high taxes, oppressive regulation and rampant litigation.

Michael Brickman, National Policy Director at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, discusses Common Core, the national education curriculum adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia, and the impact of Common Core on American competitiveness.

Roger Ream, President of The Fund for American Studies (TFAS), and Michael Cox, Sr. Fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and Director of the O'Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom at Southern Methodist University's Cox School of Business, discuss TFAS's online videos entitled: "It's a Wonderful Life (with Capitalism)" and "How Nations Succeed: What's the Secret to Ending Poverty." Ream and Cox also discuss what young people are learning in college about freedom and free markets, and what accounts for America's tremendous progress over the last 100 years.

Fox News contributor Cherylyn Harley LeBon, a member of the national advisory council of the Project 21 black leadership network and president and CEO of KLAR Strategies, discusses President Obama's constitutionally suspect decision to make "recess" appointments to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and National Labor Relations Board when the Senate was in pro forma session.

Jed Babbin, foreign policy expert and former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense, discusses what's next in the "global war on terrorism" following the death of Osama bin Laden.