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The IRS, ObamaCare, Keystone Pipeline XL and Other Scandals
02 May 2014
Phil Kerpen, President of American Commitment, discusses damaging emails between IRS official Lois Lerner and DOJ employees, misleading numbers in ObamaCare, and another delay with the Keystone XL Pipeline.
Affirmative Action and the Supreme Court
25 April 2014
Jennifer Gratz, founder and CEO of XIV Foundation, discusses Michigan's constitutional ban on race and gender-based affirmative action policies and the U.S. Supreme Court case of Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action.
ObamaCare Enrollment Numbers: Why the Administration's Celebration is Premature
16 April 2014
Sally Pipes, President, CEO and Taube Fellow in Health Care Studies at the Pacific Research Institute, discusses how the Obama Administration's enrollment figure celebration for ObamaCare's insurance exchanges is premature, why four years of ObamaCare failures is long enough and her testimony before the U.S. Senate on what the U.S. health care system can learn from other countries.
The Real Winners on Tax Day: Wind Companies
16 April 2014
Myron Ebell, Director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Center on Energy and Environment, discusses how wind companies are still reaping benefits from taxpayers despite the expiration of the multi-billion dollar wind energy production tax credit and the contradictory positions in the United Nation's new report on Global Warming.
Actions Speak Louder than Words: Obama's Threat Against Russia's Increasing Aggression in Ukraine
11 April 2014
Robert Zarate, Policy Director of the Foreign Policy Initiative, discusses the U.S. response to Russia's continued aggression in Ukraine, Russia's end game and what's next.
Why the NCAA Should Defend Against Athlete Unionization
11 April 2014
Timothy Lee, CFIF's Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs, discusses what is wrong with the NLRB's regional ruling that scholarship football players are employees and eligible to form a union.
Economics Through Lens of Film and Popular Culture
04 April 2014
Lana Harfoush, Director of Communications and Marketing for the Moving Picture Institute, discusses EconPop, a new YouTube web series, hosted by comedian Andrew Heaton, which uses humor to examine how popular films portray economic ideas.
The Rise of Green Politics
04 April 2014
Rupert Darwall, finance and public policy expert, discusses the politics of climate change, how green politics made Europe vulnerable to Putin, and his book, Global Warming: A Short History.
FCC's Proposed Disclosure Requirements Threaten First Amendment and Privacy Rights
28 March 2014
David Williams, President of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, discusses the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) attempt to require groups that comment on FCC issues to disclose their donors and why the proposed rules raise significant First Amendment and privacy concerns.
Putin's Ukraine Strategy
28 March 2014
Leon Aron, Resident Scholar and Director of Russian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, discusses how far Russian President Putin will go in Crimea and other parts of the Ukraine, what will stop him, and the impact, if any, of sanctions imposed by the United States.
New Food Labels: A $2 Billion Exercise in Irrelevancy
21 March 2014
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.
President Obama's Fiscal Blueprint Looks More Like a Campaign Brochure Than a Budget
21 March 2014
Cameron Seward, Program Manager for Impact Teams and Policy Services at The Heritage Foundation, discusses how President Obama's $3.9 trillion blueprint for the fiscal year looks more like an election-year campaign pitch than an actual budget, and how the President is using the document in an attempt to shift his legacy's focus from ObamaCare to fighting poverty.
Crisis in Ukraine
15 March 2014
Bruce Herschensohn, Foreign Policy Expert, Professor at Pepperdine University School of Public Policy and CFIF Board Member, discusses the crisis in Ukraine, the effectiveness (or ineffectiveness) of proposed sanctions and the need for increased focus on foreign policy.
ObamaCare from the Eyes of a Canadian Healthcare Refugee
14 March 2014
Shona Holmes, a leading patients' rights advocate who fled Canada to seek life-saving medical treatment in the United States, discusses how universal health care does not end suffering, it just redistributes it, and how access to health insurance does not equal access to healthcare.
Understanding the Federal Debt Ceiling
07 March 2014
Cameron Seward, Program Manager of Impact Teams and Policy Services for The Heritage Foundation, discusses Congress' suspension of the federal debt ceiling, what it means in the months and year ahead, and what policymakers should do to resolve the continuing crisis.
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