
Your host Richard Morrison teams up with Jeremy Lott and Josh Barro to bring you Episode 68 of the LibertyWeek podcast. We start with Saturday night’s healthcare vote in the House, Freddie Mac’s losing bets and a gift card scandal in Charm City. We...

Intelligence officials knew that Nidal Hasan, the soldier who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, was trying to contract Al Qaeda. (He once attended the same mosque as 9/11 terrorists.) Although the killer’s extremist rantings were common knowledge, “a fear of appearing discriminatory . .. ke...

The Washington Times, “Greedy Autoworkers,” editorializes the overwhelming rejection of the UAW’s proposed labor agreement. Unlike GM and Chrysler, Ford elected to reject the bailout money and benefited from the consumer distrust of our newly nationalized auto sector. Yet,...

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Richard Morrison teams up with Jeremy Lott and Josh Barro to bring you episode 68. We cover healthcare, Freddie Mac, a Baltimore gift card scandal, Cuomo’s attack on Intel and Josh’s tax predictions.

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Today is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is a great day for liberty that should not be forgotten. Video montage created by Drew Tidwell.

On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall came crashing down. Today marks the twentieth anniversary of that great day – one of the greatest in the history of human freedom. Communism in Germany finally collapsed, setting off a domino effect that would reach Moscow within two years. ...

Justbefore midnight on Saturday, the House of Representatives passed a massive, 2000-page health care “reform” bill by a 220 to 215 vote. The bill, backed by the Obama administration,will raise taxes. It will also explode state and federal budget deficits and costfar more than promised. It...

Well, what swine flu isn’t doing this week is apparently less than what it wasn’t doing last week. In other words, it appears to have peaked. How do we know? Here we see it’s going down the right side of the bell curve both in terms of deaths and hospitalizations. And ...

CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blog posts from CEI’s fellows and associates sent out via e-mail every Friday. Also included in the Weekly newsletter is a brief description of CEI’s weekly podcast and a feature on a major CEI breakthrough made during the week. To...

Ed Crane writes today in the Los Angeles Times that “Limited-government conservatives have been undermined by big-government neoconservatives,” and that “it is difficult to find noninterventionists in either party.” The Democrats demonstrate a disdain for capitalism, free trade and the validit...

The Free Kareem protest is going on today at 12 pm outside of the Egyptian Cultural and Educational Bureau on New Hampshire just south of Dupont Circle...

Jonathan Pershing, head of the U.S. delegation at the UN climate talks in Barcelona,says China should cut its CO2 emissions 50% by 2050...

Today’s American Spectator Online has a piece by CEI VP Wayne Crews and I on curbing Congressional abuse of unfunded mandates. ...













