Among the foremost threats to individual freedom in America is the abusive and oftentimes lawless behavior…
CFIF on Twitter CFIF on YouTube
More Legal Shenanigans from the Biden Administration’s Department of Education

Among the foremost threats to individual freedom in America is the abusive and oftentimes lawless behavior of federal administrative agencies, whose vast armies of overpaid bureaucrats remain unaccountable for their excesses.

Among the most familiar examples of that bureaucratic abuse is the Department of Education (DOE).  Recall, for instance, the United States Supreme Court’s humiliating rebuke last year of the Biden DOE’s effort to shift hundreds of billions of dollars of student debt from the people who actually owed them onto the backs of American taxpayers.

Even now, despite that rebuke, the Biden DOE launched an alternative scheme last month in an end-around effort to achieve that same result.

Well, the Biden DOE is now attempting to shift tens of millions of dollars of…[more]

March 18, 2024 • 03:11 PM
On the Economy: Biden Needs to Go Back and Take Remedial Math

On the Economy: Biden Needs to Go Back and Take Remedial Math

Here is a list my top five half-truths and in some cases outright fabrications.

Biden's Corporate Tax Hike: Populism Versus Economic Literacy

Biden's Corporate Tax Hike: Populism Versus Economic Literacy

In an era where economic literacy should guide policymaking, reverting to such tax hikes is a step backward.

Biden SOTU Pandering on Drug Price Controls Would Only Bring Shortages

Biden SOTU Pandering on Drug Price Controls Would Only Bring Shortages

Americans enjoy a far higher availability of critical drugs compared to people in other advanced economies.

Turns Out Biden Lied About Hur, Beau, And Why He Pilfered Classified Documents

Turns Out Biden Lied About Hur, Beau, And Why He Pilfered Classified Documents

More importantly, Biden also contradicted himself when speaking about the documents themselves.

Liberty Update

CFIFs latest news, commentary and alerts delivered to your inbox.
blank
Biden Price Controls Undermine Cancer Moonshot

Sally Pipes, President and CEO at the Pacific Research Institute, discusses how President Biden's drug price controls undermine his Cancer Moonshot initiative, and the ultimate impact price controls will have on patient lives, innovation, and research and development[more]
Noncitizens Should Not Be Counted to Determine Congressional Representation and the Electoral College

Lora Ries, Director of the Border Security and Immigration Center at The Heritage Foundation, discusses why only U.S. citizens should be counted in the census data as the numbers impact Congressional districting and the Electoral College, how cities and states with sanctuary policies encourage more illegal migrants[more]
The Importance of a Strong U.S. Military

Dakota Wood, Senior Research Fellow in Defense Programs at The Heritage Foundation, discusses the recently released annual report on U.S. military strength and how the underfunding of U.S. defense and overworking of the U.S. military personnel have dire national and international implications[more]
Notable News and Political Ramifications

William J. Conti, Attorney and Former Partner at Baker & Hostetler, discusses the recently released report from Special Counsel Robert Hur regarding President Biden, the politics of various legal trials involving former President Trump, the Super Bowl ad starring Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and the potential political[more]
U.S. Economic Outlook and the Need to Rein In Ridiculous Regulations

Ryan Young, Senior Economist at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, discusses the recent report from the Bureau of Economic Analysis regarding final GDP numbers for 2023, what they mean for 2024, the latest unemployment numbers, and why Congress should pass the pro-transparency ALERT Act with the aim to reduce[more]
Healthcare Should be a Choice, Not a Mandate

Quin Hillyer, Columnist and Political Commentator, discusses the requirement forcing Social Security recipients to take Medicare or forfeit their Social Security benefits, and how the Retirement Freedom Act, if passed, would override that requirement and extend the life of the Medicare program[more]
Is SCOTUS Poised to Rein In the Administrative State?

Timothy Lee, CFIF's Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs, discusses the enormous amount of deference afforded to federal regulatory agencies by the 40-year-old U.S. Supreme Court decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, and how the Supreme Court appears poised to eliminate that[more]
Conflict in the Middle East: Is There a Path to Peace?

The Honorable Francis Rooney, former Ambassador to the Holy See and Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, discusses the global implications and unintended adverse consequences of Hamas' attack on Israel, whether diplomatic efforts and/or the Vatican's involvement could bring peace to the Middle[more]
Notable Quote   
 
"It's a rematch.President Biden and former President Trump each hit a key marker last week, clinching enough delegates to become the presumptive nominee of their respective party.The outcome of the general election will come down to a handful of states, as usual.The map maintained by The Hill and Decision Desk HQ lists seven contests as toss-ups."Read the entire article here.…[more]
 
 
— Niall Stanage, The Hill
 
Liberty Poll   

Do you support or oppose a government-imposed U.S. ban of TikTok?