National Blog - page 202
Massie on Hemp
In a segment of a larger interview with cn|2's Pure Politics with Nick Storm, Rep. Thomas Massie talks about the early progress made on legalizing the domestic cultivation of industrial hemp through pilot projects authorized by a provision in the [...]
Campaign for Liberty to Congress: No New (Internet) Taxes
Campaign for Liberty has joined a collation of over forty other organizations in a letter urging the Senate to reject efforts to attach the National Internet Tax Mandate to the Internet Access Tax Moratorium. Instead the letter urges the Senate [...]
Mark Mix Talks Right to Work on C-SPAN
On Labor Day, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation President, Mark Mix appeared on C-SPAN to discuss what Right to Work means for workers. Be sure to catch Mark at LPAC this Year!
Government Debt: US's leading export?
According to new figures from the Treasury Department, foreign holdings of US debt now exceed $6 trillion dollars. China is the leading holder of US debt, holding $1,268,400,000,000 at the end of June. In comparison, the Federal Reserve held [...]
Obama Has No Middle East Strategy? Good!
Last week President Obama admitted that his administration has not worked out a strategy on how to deal with the emergence of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as a dominant force in the Middle East. However, as ISIS continues its march [...]
Happy Birthday Sarah Murnaghan
Sarah Murnaghan recently celebrated her twelfth birthday. For those who do not remember, Sarah is the girl who almost died last year because of federal regulations prohibiting children from receiving adult organs. Fortunately for Sarah, a federal [...]
If you have nothing to hide, you still have something to fear
Defenders of the NSA, TSA, PATRIOT Act, etc. like to say that "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." Three stories show the fallacy of that statement. First, is a survey from the Pew Research Center showing that only 42% of [...]
US Government Rejects Lower Airfares for US Travelers
In June, I blogged about how US airlines were lobbying the government to deny low-cost Norwegian Air authorization to operate in the United States. Norwegian Air was seeking to bring its business, along with hundreds of jobs to the United States. [...]
Don't Miss Bill Kaufman at LPAC 2014!
One of the LPAC 2014 speakers I am most excited about is Bill Kaufman. Mr. Kaufman is a former DC editor for Reason magazine, and currently is a columnist for The American Conservative. Mr. Kaufman is also a contributor to a number of other [...]
Rand Paul: This is not foreign policy
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) writes in The Wall Street Journal about how US failed foreign policy has created greater instability in the Middle East and urges caution before engaging the US in another conflict. Senator Paul reminds readers about how [...]