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ObamaCare Is Fundamentally Unworkable
09 August 2013
Avik Roy, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, discusses the Obama Administration's unilateral decision to delay parts of ObamaCare, why delaying the employer mandate while continuing to implement the individual mandate is unfair to hard-working Americans and evidence that the law is failing to work as intended, and how ObamaCare will make health insurance less affordable as premiums rise.
Lessons Learned the Hard Way in Detroit
02 August 2013
CFIF Senior Vice President Timothy Lee discusses the liberal policy decisions, which spanned multiple decades, that contributed to Detroit's bankruptcy and compares them to the limited-government policies in Houston, Texas, a city that is thriving.
The Growing Cost of Overregulation
26 July 2013
Ryan Young, Fellow in Regulatory Studies at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, discusses the soaring cost of overregulation, CEI's annual survey of the Federal regulatory state, "Ten Thousand Commandments," and the government's biggest offenders.
How Media and Government Conspire to Protect the Status Quo
19 July 2013
Investigative journalist and filmmaker James O'Keefe, founder of Project Veritas, discusses his latest book, "Breakthrough: Our Guerilla War to Expose Fraud and Save Democracy," and his experience with what happens when a young citizen journalist challenges some of America's most powerful and protected organizations.
President's Climate Plan Undemocratic
12 July 2013
William Yeatman, Assistant Director at the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Center for Energy and Environment, discusses the Obama Administration's climate agenda, its all-out war on coal, the Keystone Pipeline project and the EPA's assault on state sovereignty.
A Supreme Review of the Highest Court
05 July 2013
Megan Brown, Partner at Wiley Rein LLP in Washington, D.C., discusses the U.S. Supreme Court's latest term, some of the Court's key cases and decisions, and a sneak peek at the next term.
How Guns Have Shaped the United States
28 June 2013
William Doyle discusses "American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms," the book he co-authored with the late Chris Kyle, bestselling author of "American Sniper." Doyle describes thrilling turning points in American history and the remarkable role that guns have had in shaping our great nation.
Zeroing In on the Immigration Debate
21 June 2013
Matt Mayer, Visiting Fellow at the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation and former U.S. Department of Homeland Security official, discusses the role local governments should play in securing the border and reporting fraud, what's wrong with the Gang of Eight amnesty bill, Edward Snowden's motives for exposing surveillance tactics and updates in the Boston Marathon bombing case.
Return of the Imperial Presidency?
21 June 2013
Aron Mujumdar, Professor at the Florida Coastal School of Law, discusses presidential power in the age of President Obama as compared to his predecessors, warrantless surveillance and constitutional limits on the president.
The ObamaCare Train Wreck
14 June 2013
Sally Pipes, President and CEO, Taube Fellow in Health Care Studies at the Pacific Research Institute, discusses why the ObamaCare Insurance Exchange Train is already coming off the rails and why this train wreck will be riddled with delays, wasteful spending and cost overruns.
Time to Shrink the National Debt
14 June 2013
Romina Boccia, Assistant Director at the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation, discusses a new video by "Bankrupting America" that uses humor to call attention to how rising national debt hurts American families and policy changes that are needed to fix entitlements and get spending under control.
The Gang of Eight and Border Security
07 June 2013
Mark Krikorian, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies, discusses the Gang of Eight's immigration reform proposal, border security and Senator Marco Rubio's latest efforts to have Congress, not the Department of Homeland Security, write the border control provisions.
Will Holder Go?
06 June 2013
Ashton Ellis, Contributing Editor at CFIF, discusses the growing battle cry to impeach Attorney General Eric Holder and Congress' power to prosecute criminal behavior by government officials through the impeachment process.
In Defense of Capitalism
30 May 2013
Roger Ream, President of The Fund for American Studies (TFAS), and Michael Cox, Sr. Fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and Director of the O'Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom at Southern Methodist University's Cox School of Business, discuss TFAS's online videos entitled: "It's a Wonderful Life (with Capitalism)" and "How Nations Succeed: What's the Secret to Ending Poverty." Ream and Cox also discuss what young people are learning in college about freedom and free markets, and what accounts for America's tremendous progress over the last 100 years.
ObamaCare Power Grab
30 May 2013
Sam Kazman, General Counsel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, discusses a lawsuit filed by a group of small business owners and individuals challenging IRS regulations imposed under ObamaCare, which will force them to pay exorbitant fines, cut employees' hours and severely burden their businesses.
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