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This Week's Liberty Update

This week’s edition of the Liberty Update, CFIF’s weekly e-newsletter, is out. Below is a summary of its contents:

Hillyer:  Reagan 101

Ellis:  Direct-Pay Medicine: A Free Market Approach to Healthcare Reform

Lee:  Obama, Three Years Ago This Week: "If I Don't Have This Turned Around in Three Years..." Senik:  The "Republican Establishment" Rides Again

Release:  Conservative Leaders Call On President, Congress To Pass Corporate Tax Reform

Podcast:  The Consequences of Pres. Obama's Refusal to Approve Keystone XL Pipeline

Jester’s Courtroom:  Lawyers Win Big in iLawsuit

Editorial Cartoons:  Latest Cartoons of Michael Ramirez

Quiz:  Question of the Week

Notable Quotes:  Quotes of the Week

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February 03, 2012 • 10:30 am

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Obama, Three Years Ago This Week: “If I Don’t Have This Turned Around in Three Years…”
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, February 02 2012
On February 2, 2009, Barack Obama confidently announced the following performance standard for himself in an interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer:  Lauer:  “At some point, will you say, ‘Wait a minute – we’ve spent this amount of money, but we’re not seeing results, we’ve got to change course dramatically’?”  Obama:  “…A year from now, I think that people are going to see that we’re starting to make some progress, but there’s still going to be some pain out there.  If I don’t have this done…
 
Reagan 101
A year ago the conservative movement was fired up for a year-long celebration of Ronald Reagan’s…
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The “Republican Establishment” Rides Again
As the first month of the Republican presidential race draws to a close, a fissure that has laid dormant…
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Direct-Pay Medicine: A Free Market Approach to Healthcare Reform
While ObamaCare creates armies of bureaucrats in the public and private sectors, a small but growing…
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Obama’s IRS Return Shows His Tax Hypocrisy, Current Debate Shows Urgent Need for Corporate Tax Reform
In his State of the Union speech, Barack Obama lectured those whom he hadn’t already bored to stupor…
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Five Laughable Moments from the State of the Union
Barack Obama had an open microphone and time to kill at Tuesday night’s State of the Union address…
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Puff! The Tragic Dragonless Leadership
The utter fecklessness of top conservative office-holders is stunning. Faced with what most of them call…
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L.A. Unified’s School Lunch Crusade Leaves Bad Taste for Kids, Taxpayers
What happens when a herd of school lunch crusaders runs roughshod over the taste buds of 700,000 grade…
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Will the Tea Party End in 2012?
Over the course of the past three years, the Tea Party movement has reshaped conservative politics in…
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Obama Plays Politics with America's Energy Future
After three years of waging a war to shut down America’s domestic energy producers of petroleum…
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The Next President’s Agenda
Okay, pretend I’m running for president. Here’s my platform. Personal income taxes: Flat…
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Question of the Week   
How many times in our nation’s history have two former Speakers of the House of Representatives faced off against each other for election as President of the United States?
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Quote of the Day   
 
"The [Indiana right-to-work law] is yet another indication that the American people understand that while unions serve a purpose, their political agenda is more about power and leverage than the rights of workers. The concept of the 'union shop' in which the government allows workers to be bullied and taxed into submission is repugnant. It also is the underlying factor behind the trend by which powerful…[more]
 
 
—Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary Magazine
— Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary Magazine
 
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