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15 January 2016
Carrie Severino, Chief Counsel and Policy Director of the Judicial Crisis Network, discusses why First Amendment advocates are hopeful for a favorable ruling in Friedrichs v. California following oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in the legal case regarding unions and compelled speech.
15 January 2016
Cam Edwards, host of NRA News' Cam & Co., discusses President Obama's proposed executive action on gun control, how the president's stated belief in the Second Amendment is inconsistent with his executive action, and why the executive actions will do nothing to stop violent crime.
08 January 2016
Robert Pondiscio, Senior Fellow and Vice President for External Affairs at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, discusses the Every Student Succeeds Act, accountability in education, and whether America is failing our brightest students.
08 January 2016
Timothy Lee, CFIF's Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs, discusses some of the hot issues America faces in 2016, including justice reform legislation, net neutrality and gun control.
18 December 2015
Matt A. Mayer, Visiting Fellow, Homeland Security Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, discusses how the Visa Waiver Program makes it too easy for terrorists to enter the U.S. and why terrorism must be the focus of the candidates running for President.
18 December 2015
Jenny Beth Martin, President and Co-Founder of the Tea Party Patriots, discusses the proposed new rules from the Internal Revenue Service that opens the door for nonprofits to ask donors for their Social Security numbers, how the agency continues to lose public trust and why IRS Commissioner Koskinen should be impeached.
18 December 2015
Gail Heriot, Professor of Law at the University of San Diego and a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, discusses the Supreme Court oral arguments in the affirmative action case of Fisher v. University of Texas and Justice Scalia's remarks that raised a controversy.
18 December 2015
Bradley A. Smith, former Chairman of the Federal Election Commission and Chairman of the Center for Competitive Politics, discusses the continued fights over campaign-finance laws and why it's disheartening that the House Freedom Caucus objected to a proposal by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to lift the limit on how much political parties can spend in coordination with their candidates.
11 December 2015
Craig Shirley, New York Times bestselling author and President of Shirley & Bannister Public Affairs, discusses his latest book, "Last Act: The Final Years and Emerging Legacy of Ronald Reagan," and more about the 40th President of the United States.
04 December 2015
Dan Epstein, Executive Director of Cause of Action, discusses the oral arguments in Van Hollen v. FEC (a case in which CFIF is an intervenor-party) and why the court should not require non-profits that fund electioneering communications to be forced to release a full list of its supporters.
04 December 2015
Tod Lindberg, Research Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, discusses his recently released book, "The Heroic Heart: Greatness Ancient and Modern," why it is important to recognize and honor our heroes and whether there are heroes in politics.
25 November 2015
James Phillips, Senior Research Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation, discusses how the Paris terrorist attacks underscore the expanding threat posed by ISIS, the evolving ISIS strategy, forming a U.S. response to ISIS and what it means for Russia to "have skin in the game."
25 November 2015
David Adesnik, Policy Director at the Foreign Policy Initiative, discusses the Paris attacks, the price of U.S. inaction, ISIS' resiliency and the Syrian refugee crisis.
20 November 2015
Ben Boychuk, CFIF Contributing Editor, discusses the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (a.k.a. "the Nation's Report Card"), how the adoption of Common Core education standards may be to blame for the drop in academic scores, and the challenges ahead for John B. King, President Obama's pick to replace Arne Duncan at the helm of the U.S. Department of Education.
20 November 2015
Joe Luppino-Esposito, Policy Analyst for Right on Crime and the Center for Effective Justice at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, discusses how criminal justice reformers with conservative principles have been a driving force behind new legislation aimed at reforming the federal and state prison systems and promoting alternatives to incarceration that lead to greater public safety, support for victims and protects taxpayers.
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