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Sunset The Tax Code The American public recognizes that the current federal income tax system is so complex and so riddled with special deals for special interests that it is inherently unfair and inherently inefficient. The public NEEDS tax reform that results in a simpler and fairer system. Listen to Past Shows Top Story October 16, 2018 | Colin A. Hanna Sprint + T-Mobile = The rare merger that increases competition As a longtime Sprint mobile subscriber, I ve watched the proposed Sprint-T-Mobile merger closely. I generally oppose large mergers because they re anti-competitive: they tend to reduce competition and thus are contrary to the public interest, but the Sprint-T-Mobile merger is different. As I have written elsewhere, this merger will almost certainly improve the long-term competitive environment in mobile communications.  Here s an View Article Read More Top Story September 12, 2018 | Robert Graham Kraninger Would Be Worthy Successor to Mulvaney at CFPB After her nomination initially faced stalling and obfuscation, Kathy Kraninger is rightly poised to be confirmed as the next Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She was approved by the Senate Banking Committee several days ago, and now she faces full Senate consideration and approval to become Mick Mulvaney’s replacement at the CFPB. The vote View Article Read More Top Story August 23, 2018 | Colin A. Hanna Senate Panel Approves Trump’s Pick to Run Consumer-Finance Agency President Trump’s pick to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cleared a key hurdle today with a Senate committee vote approving Kathy Kraninger s nomination to Director. I am pleased that the Senate Banking Committee has voted to move Ms. Kraninger’s nomination as Director one step forward to completion. To date, this process has been nothing View Article Read More Top Story August 14, 2018 | Colin A. Hanna Rampant cronyism, fraud and abuse at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau The Cause of Action Institute has produced a compelling report on the rampant crony-ism, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer dollars at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Under Director Cordray, the bureau was a revolving door of Democrat lobbyists and Left-wing interest groups securing their political agenda inside the bureau. The report details a lack View Article Read More Top Story August 9, 2018 | Alexei Alexis T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Could Help Competition, GOP Senator Says It’s always nice when someone you respect agrees with you! In this case, Senator Mike Lee is making the same point that I have made in several op-eds and radio appearances: the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint is not anti-competitive—it will actually improve competition. Colin Hanna T-Mobile US Inc. and Sprint Corp.’s proposed $26.5 billion View Article Read More Top Story July 19, 2018 | Colin Hanna Kathy Kraninger is the right person to lead the CFPB The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) needs a strong leader who can restore transparency and constitutional accountability to an agency that has acted with reckless abandon since it was created. From levying punitive fines on businesses to reward partisan ‘consumer advocacy’ groups to racking up over $200 million in cost overruns to renovate its Washington View Article Read More Top Story July 18, 2018 | Colin Hanna Anti-Trump Democrats seek to block appointment of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Kathy Kraninger, President Trump’s nominee to become director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), deserves swift Senate confirmation, despite Democratic attempts to block her appointment. Her confirmation hearing will be held Thursday before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. The CFBP is was created in 2011. From its inception, the agency was View Article Read More Top Story July 12, 2018 | Robert Romano T-Mobile-Sprint merger will create more competition in 5G, boost growth In April, CTIA, the nation’s leading wireless trade association, rolled out its standard for 5G, promising 10 gigabits per second speeds at the top end, 100 times faster than today’s 4G of 100 megabits per second, as carriers begin deployment this year. It will be a faster mobile network that will not only make videos and View Article Read More Top Story July 9, 2018 | Colin Hanna Two Big Reasons In Favor Of T-Mobile-Sprint Merger The principal objection raised by opponents to the T-Mobile-Sprint merger is that it will reduce competition in the wireless industry. That argument, which sounds intuitively valid at first, rests on two flaws. The first flaw is that opposition to the merger as anti-competitive ignores the relative sizes of the existing major four carriers. Verizon and AT T each have View Article Read More Top Story June 27, 2018 | Colin Hanna Statement in support of the T-Mobile/Sprint Merger As the Senate Judiciary Committee today holds a hearing examining the proposed T-Mobile and Sprint merger, Let Freedom Ring, President Colin Hanna issued the following statement in support of the merger: Expanding 5G technology nationwide is a mammoth project requiring enormous capital expenditures. It is also a necessary one, which is why combining Sprint and View Article Read More Top Story June 27, 2018 | Robert McDowell T-Mobile-Sprint Merger Would Lower Costs for Customers, Bring New Jobs Mergers and acquisitions in the converging communications, media, and internet industries dominated news earlier this month. Following the decision in the AT T-Time Warner trial and Comcast’s bid for 21st Century Fox, there was a tsunami of speculation about the next big deal. But while the press is understandably preoccupied with newly announced deals, downstream regulatory View Article Read More Top Story June 11, 2018 | Nan Hayworth HEY, SENATOR WARREN: IF YOU REALLY CARE ABOUT CONSUMERS, MICK MULVANEY’S YOUR MAN According to its name, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) exists to protect consumers. But according to the vision of its progenitor, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, the CFPB is a government-sanctioned bludgeon to be wielded against businesses and industries at the whim of its director — whom she intended, like a latter-day Louis XIV, to View Article Read More Top Story June 4, 2018 | Lew Uhler and Peter Ferrara Trump s Tax Reform Raised Taxes On Rich, Liberated The Poor As congressional Republicans returned to their states and districts for the Memorial Day week, they were buoyed by recent election results and forecasts for November. The generic poll shifted to congressional Republicans as progressive Democrats — too liberal for their districts — won nominations throughout the nation. Concurrently, the benefit of Republican tax reform for low and View Article Read More Top Story May 16, 2018 | Colin A. Hanna Ginnie Mae s new CEO: should he help U.S. vets or Chinese investors? May 16, 2018 West Chester, PA – Let Freedom Ring USA President Colin Hanna issued the following statement in opposition to Michael Bright being nominated to head up the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae): “The announcement that Michael Bright has been nominated to head up Ginnie Mae is disappointing and lets down the thousands View Article Read More Top Story May 9, 2018 | CHRISTOPHER C. HORNER Louisiana Follows Liberal New York City s Lead In Going After Oil Companies Louisiana and New York City might not seem like they have much in common, but they are up to the same tricks. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio recently announced  a lawsuit against oil companies, alleging that they caused the climate change and global warming that led to Hurricane Sandy, and so the energy industry View Article Read More Top Story May 3, 2018 | Joe Schoffstal ‘Pro-Consumer’ Group Attacking Mulvaney Tied to Liberal Dark Money Org The group spearheading a campaign against Mick Mulvaney, the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), is a project of a low-profile progressive dark money organization with large assets. Allied Progress, a Washington, D.C.-based group that describes itself as a consumer watchdog organization, has taken credit for forcing the withdrawals of past Trump nominees and View Article Read More Top Story April 6, 2018 | Terence P. Jeffrey Indicted Russian Agency Had 4,334 Facebook, Instagram, Twitter Accounts; Targeted Energy Industry as Well as Election The Internet Research Agency, the Russian organization indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller for meddling in the U.S. presidential election, controlled 4,334 accounts on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, according to information provided by Facebook and Twitter to the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. “Between 2015 and 2017, there were an estimated 4,334 IRA View Article Read More Top Story April 6, 2018 | Steve Forbes The New EPA And Why The Radical Left Is Losing It It should come as no surprise how the man who is boldly redirecting the EPA — a once rogue agency that operated far beyond its constitutional authority — is now the subject of routine attacks from liberal news outlets and activists who want him fired. Scott Pruitt has taken his job as EPA Administrator seriously and has View Article Read More Top Story March 14, 2018 | Adam Andrzejewski Three Steps Toward a More Transparent Government It’s national Sunshine Week across America, sponsored by the American Society of News Editors. It’s a week for government watchdog groups like ours, OpenTheBooks.com, as well as journalists, to call for open government and transparency. Much of the information we uncover isn’t pretty, which is why so many government officials prefer to keep some things View Article Read More Top Story March 5, 2018 | Dr. Susan Berry Does Broward Schools Program Coddle Troubled Students and Excuse Dangerous Behavior? The Broward County school district’s adoption of a school discipline policy that was praised by the Obama administration for seeking to reduce the reported number of school suspensions, expulsions, and arrests may have played a role in the fact that Nikolas Cruz remained under the radar until his shooting rampage in Parkland, Florida, on February View Article Read More Top Story March 1, 2018 | Colin A. Hanna CFPB leadership fight exposes Democrats hypocrisy Washington, D.C. is a town of tall-tales, and there is no tale taller than the Democratic Party’s insistence that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has lost its “independence” now that Acting Director Mick Mulvaney is in charge, returning a once lawless agency back to the core mission of protecting consumers. In a letter to President View Article Read More Top Story February 27, 2018 | Adam Andrzejewski Why are the salaries of a quarter-million federal employees paid with your tax dollars a state secret? Why is the U.S. government withholding salary information on nearly 255,000 employees whose salaries are paid for by American taxpayers? Over the past 11 years, our organization, OpenTheBooks.com, summed up and posted online the salaries and bonus information for nearly every person employed in federal government agencies – a tally that mostly keeps growing and growing . View Article Read More Top Story February 21, 2018 | Colin A. Hanna CFPB leadership fight exposes Democrats hypocrisy Washington, D.C. is a town of tall-tales, and there is no tale taller than the Democratic Party’s insistence that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has lost its “independence” now that Acting Director Mick Mulvaney is in charge, returning a once lawless agency back to the core mission of protecting consumers. In a letter to President View Article Read More Top Story February 9, 2018 | Colin Hanna Frederick Douglass: His Faith, His Family, Our Future This February, one of the most notable African-American Statesman and Abolitionists, Frederick Douglass, will be honored for the bicentennial of his birth. Douglass, born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, was an author, scholar, humanitarian, and entrepreneur who served five United States presidents. While many remember Douglass as a fiery speaker who denounced slavery and advocated for View Article Read More Top Story January 23, 2018 | Naomi Jagoda Conservatives call for end to taxpayer-funded sexual harassment settlements A group of more than 60 conservative leaders called Friday for House GOP leadership to prevent lawmakers from using taxpayer funds to settle sexual harassment cases. The letter, spearheaded by Let Freedom Ring President Colin Hanna, calls for an end to the use of taxpayer money in sexual harassment settlements. Others who signed the letter View Article Read More Top Story January 23, 2018 | Thomas Pyle Louisiana s new trial lawyer shakedown Gov. John Bel Edwards and a group of trial lawyers are representing six coastal parishes against the oil and gas industry in 42 absurd lawsuits alleging that drilling and the cutting of canals as far back as 80 years ago are responsible for coastal erosion. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte) Liberal New York City Mayor Bill De View Article Read More Top Story January 10, 2018 | Paul Bedard Trump budget chief shuts down consumer protection bureau slush fund Mick Mulvaney, center, leaves the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington, Monday, Nov. 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) An educational “slush fund” used by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has come under the “strictest review” by acting director Mick Mulvaney amid concerns the Obama-era agency has been doling out cash only to Democratic cronies. Mulvaney, View Article Read More Top Story January 2, 2018 | Colin A. Hanna Taxpayers should stop funding hush money to silence victims of congressional sexual harassment Millions of Americans have been repulsed by the reports of members of Congress engaged in sexual harassment and sexual misconduct. This behavior is reprehensible in anyone, but in the case of someone who openly courts the public trust, it is especially egregious. But almost as egregious as the behavior itself is the use of taxpayers’ View Article Read More Top Story December 20, 2017 | Colin A. Hanna With CFPB, GOP can finally make good on abolishing federal agencies One of the most obvious means of shrinking the size of the federal government is to eliminate some of its agencies.  Although many champions of limited government, including former President Ronald Reagan, have called for the shutting down of various federal agencies to reduce wasteful government spending, it hardly ever happens. The Trump administration now View Article Read More Top Story December 19, 2017 | Alex Hendrie The Left is wrong: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act benefits the middle class This week, the House and Senate will vote on comprehensive, pro-growth, pro-family tax reform. The legislation, known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, will give families and individuals across the country tax reduction and simplification starting in 2018. The legislation includes rate reduction and a doubling of the standard deduction. Under this change, the View Article Read More Top Story November 27, 2017 | Fred Lucas States Spurning Election Commission Show Irregularities in Voter Registration Many of the states refusing to cooperate with President Donald Trump’s election commission aren’t in compliance with federal law on maintaining voter registration lists, according to government watchdog groups. So far, 18 states and the District of Columbia have declined or are still considering whether to provide election data to the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, established View Article Read More Top Story October 27, 2017 | Steve Forbes, Kenneth Blackwell Steve Forbes, Ken Blackwell: Think big on tax cuts What President Trump s tax plan would really do Let the Congressional Budget Office howl. It’s time for Republicans in Congress to understand what Reagan understood, what JFK understood, and what our friend and mentor Jack Kemp definitely understood: Big tax cuts produce big returns, and the more widespread the cuts, the larger the number of View Article Read More Top Story October 25, 2017 | Jack Crowe Emails Confirm: Obama DOJ Funneled Big Bank Settlement Money To Liberal Groups Emails written by Obama administration Department of Justice officials confirm reports the agency engaged in a systemic effort to funnel money to liberal advocacy organizations from settlements reached with big banks. The documents, obtained by the House Judiciary Committee as part of an ongoing investigation, reveal the Obama Justice Department effectively skirted Congress’s budgetary authority View Article Read More Top Story October 24, 2017 | Fair Arbitration Now Call your Senators now to Protect Our Service Members and Veterans When the brave men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces are deployed, their primary mission is to protect our nation. That mission can be jeopardized when their lives are interrupted with consumer scams, abuses, and fraud. Predatory schemes are commonplace and often specifically target service members, leading to significant financial strain on service members, View Article Read More Top Story October 6, 2017 | Colin A. Hanna Is Wells Fargo still ripping off its customers? The Senate Banking Committee hearings last week addressed two of the most abominable practices by predatory bank lenders like Wells Fargo: force-placed insurance and forced arbitration. The very names of these practices reek of anti-consumer heavy-handedness. In his testimony, Wells Fargo’s Chief Executive Timothy Sloan showed no remorse for either practice. That will come as View Article Read More Top Story October 4, 2017 | Colin A. Hanna It s critical that the US defend fuel cell tech from Chinese pilfering Thanks to the innovative American spirit, the United States is unquestionably the world leader when it comes to the development of an emerging, highly promising source of energy: fuel cells. But our position of global dominance is already in jeopardy due to the threat of hacking from China. Fuel cell technology converts the chemical energy in hydrogen or View Article Read More Top Story September 29, 2017 | Paul Sperry How Obama is funding the anti-Trump resistance Wall Street might be shocked to learn it is helping bankroll the anti-Trump “resistance” movement that’s aggressively fighting policies it favors — including corporate tax cuts and the repeal of Obama-era banking and health-care regulations. The Obama administration’s massive shakedown of Big Banks over the mortgage crisis included unprecedented back-door funding for dozens of Democratic View Article Read More Top Story September 26, 2017 | NICK RYAN Protecting You From Financial Fraud Isn t Just The Right Thing — It s The Conservative Thing It s an issue literally ripped from the headlines: financial institution misfeasance and malfeasance — and legal maneuverings to avoid accountability. First, Wells Fargo reported that the number of fraudulent accounts opened for unsuspecting customers had reached 3.5 million – a mind-boggling 67% higher than originally thought. Then credit-reporting agency Equifax admitted that the names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, View Article Read More Top Story September 21, 2017 | John Kartch Bernie Calls For 52% Tax Rate for Government Healthcare Sen. Bernie Sanders is once again calling for extreme tax hikes to pay for his plans, this time for a government-run single payer health care system. The plan will come in at a cost of $1.38 trillion per year and will impose across the board tax hikes, including: -An income tax rate of 52% -Taxing View Article Read More Top Story September 21, 2017 | Alexander Hendrie 88 Conservative Groups Urge Passage of Pro-Growth Tax Reform in 2017 Congress must pass pro-growth tax reform in 2017, a coalition of 88 conservative groups and activists led by Americans for Tax Reform and Americans for Prosperity today wrote in a letter to leaders in the White House, House, and Senate.  Let Freedom Ring was pleased to sign on to this letter. As the letter notes, the tax View Article Read More Top Story September 14, 2017 | Matt Mackowiak Trump sets clock for tax reform with unexpected move September was supposed to be a brutal month. The combination of the debt ceiling and the continuing resolution made it combustible, with the political reality that the party in power will be held responsible for keeping government open and functioning, particularly in the aftermath of a major natural disaster. Republicans knew that Democratic votes would View Article Read More Top Story September 12, 2017 | Fr. Mark Hodges Chinese gov’t bans kids from attending church services ZHEJIANG, China, September 11, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) China’s communist authorities are cracking down on Christianity, telling more than a hundred Christian churches that children are now forbidden from attending church services and joining Christian groups. In August over a hundred churches in Wenzhou, within the largely Christian Zhejiang province, received official notices that children will View Article Read More Top Story September 12, 2017 | Open the Books Ivy League schools get $6.93 billion subsidy per year from U.S. government OpenTheBooks Oversight Report IVY LEAGUE, INC. Download a PDF copy of the report click here. U.S. Taxpayer Subsidies, Tax-Breaks and Federal Payments Into the Ivy League Colleges, Fiscal Years 2010–2015 KEY FINDINGS: Ivy League payments and entitlements cost taxpayers $41.59 billion over a six-year period (FY2010-FY2015). This is equivalent to $120,000 in government monies, subsidies, View Article Read More Top Story August 29, 2017 | Judson Phillips Conservatives beware: Big business threatens Seventh Amendment Every once in a while, a rogue federal agency does something right. Here s an example: Ask any conservative what the greatest threat to liberty is and they will instantly answer, “Big government.” That answer is correct, but today too many conservatives ignore a threat to liberty that is just as ominous. The threat is big View Article Read More Top Story August 21, 2017 | Colin Hanna Forced arbitration: Big banks Star Chamber Arbitration hearings, in tilting the scales of justice heavily to Big Business and rendering consumers virtually defenseless, seem indeed to be the 21st-century version of the Star Chambers. (Flickr) Elbridge Gerry was a colonial-era plutocrat who became a patriot, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a champion of equal justice under the law . View Article Read More Top Story August 14, 2017 | S. A. Miller Clinton email case far from closed FBI hands over more classified documents The Hillary Clinton email fiasco isn’t ending anytime soon, with State Department officials saying they have no idea when they will finish sorting though and releasing the previously hidden messages. More classified documents that the former secretary of state improperly handled keep coming to light. The Trump administration doesn’t even know if it has hunted View Article Read More Top Story August 11, 2017 | Colin A. Hanna Frederick Douglass and the Art of the Impossible: Bipartisanship! Washington is the city where nothing seems to work these days, due in large part to partisanship.  Truly bipartisan bills, even minor ones, are a rarity.  Yet there is at least one exception: the Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Commission Act, and there’s quite a story behind it. First, a little background on Frederick Douglass, with thanks View Article Read More Top Story August 8, 2017 | Hanna Hansen Countering terrorism and the threat of establishing an Islamist caliphate worldwide On June 14, 2017, Dr. John Lenczowski testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on the topics of countering terrorism and the threat of establishing an Islamist caliphate worldwide by confronting the underlying ideology. He also raised the concern about permitting sharia law to develop a parallel track in the View Article Read More Top Story July 27, 2017 | Margaret Menge Shock Claim: Florida County Has ‘Thousands’ of Voters Over Age 100 As Democrats and the mainstream media continue to insist that the president’s voter-fraud commission is a scheme to suppress votes, the head of elections in Broward County, Florida, is appearing in federal court in Miami as a defendant in a lawsuit where she will have to explain why Broward has more registered voters than citizens View Article Read More Top Story July 26, 2017 | LUKE ROSIAK Congressional IT Aide wires $300k to Pakistan attempts to leave U.S.    Imran Awan with Bill Clinton / Facebook Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s top information technology (IT) aide was arrested Monday attempting to board a flight to Pakistan after wiring $283,000 from the Congressional Federal Credit Union to that country. He attempted to leave the country hours after The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group revealed that he View Article Read More Top Story July 25, 2017 | Heather R. Higgins Force Congress’s Hand on Health Care Lawmakers and their staff should have to buy insurance on the exchanges—the way the law requires. If President Trump is serious about repealing ObamaCare—about delivering a better policy with more choice and lower costs—there’s a simple move he could make that wouldn’t require congressional approval. It would align the interests of lawmakers and their staffers View Article Read More Top Story July 21, 2017 | Colin A. Hanna Russian Sanctions: When The Punisher Becomes The Punished Americans rarely agree on anything these days, but it s accurate to say that almost everyone would like to see Vladimir Putin and Russia pay a hefty price for trying to influence our recent elections and for other troubling deeds of late. Unfortunately, the Senate s Russian sanctions bill (S. 722) doesn t do the job, not by View Article Read More Top Story July 19, 2017 | Fred Lucas White House Panel on Voter Fraud Begins Work A presidential commission to examine voter fraud and the soundness of election systems across the country has a big job ahead as it convenes Wednesday for the first time. Not only is the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity charged with investigating what to do about voter fraud cases and establishing best practices, it must View Article Read More Top Story July 19, 2017 | Colin Hanna Let Freedom Ring joins new Property Rights Coalition Let Freedom Ring is pleased to announce their participation in Conservatives for Property Rights (CPR). This is a new coalition of conservative and libertarian organizations to emphasize private property rights in all its forms physical, personal and intellectual. The coalition will first focus on the death tax repeal, federal land holdings and use, copyright policy and View Article Read More Top Story July 18, 2017 | Boston.com Top officials at New Hampshire veterans hospital removed after Globe ‘Spotlight’ report The Manchester VA hospital in Manchester, New Hampshire. –Keith Bedford / The Boston Globe, File The Boston Globe, updated on July 17, 2017 MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin has removed two top officials at New Hampshire’s only veterans hospital and ordered a review of the facility starting Monday amid allegations of View Article Read More Top Story July 11, 2017 | CEI editorial Should We Regulate the Internet? Today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) released a report that makes the case for repealing the Federal Communications Commission’s unnecessary net neutrality regulations, which could have adverse impacts on American consumers, particularly those in rural and low-income areas. According to the report, the FCC’s Internet regulations limit competition, curtail innovation, and dissuade much-needed private investment View Article Read More Top Story July 10, 2017 | Zachary Leeman Why Gary Sinise Fights So Tirelessly for Veterans On the Friday after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, actor Gary Sinise felt a calling. Packed into a Los Angeles church with others looking for a sense of balance amid the chaos and loss on what then-President George W. Bush called a National Day of Prayer, Sinise was moved to action by words from the View Article Read More Top Story July 7, 2017 | LUKE ROSIAK House Democrats employed IT contractors now under investigation Imran Awan, his wife Hina, and brothers Abid and Jamal collectively netted more than $4 million in salary as IT administrators for House Democrats between 2009 and 2017. Yet the absence of signs of wealth displayed among them raise questions such as was the money sent overseas or did something other than paychecks motivate their actions? Capitol Police revoked View Article Read More Top Story July 6, 2017 | MICHAEL BASTASCH Study Finds Temperature Adjustments Account For ‘Nearly All Of The Warming’ In Climate Data “Thus, it is impossible to conclude from the three published GAST data sets that recent years have been the warmest ever – despite current claims of record setting warming,” according to a study published June 27 by two scientists and a veteran statistician. The peer-reviewed study tried to validate current surface temperature datasets managed by NASA, NOAA and View Article Read More Top Story July 5, 2017 | Jason Snead Growing Pile of Data Shows That Voter Fraud Is a Real and Vast Problem Virginia election officials launched extensive efforts to stonewall an investigation into non-citizen voting. (Photo: iStock Photos)   With these latest additions, the database now documents 581 cases of proven voter fraud and 848 criminal convictions. Heritage’s database proves not only that voter fraud is real and ongoing, but also that it is not isolated to View Article Read More Top Story June 30, 2017 | Colin A Hanna Conservatives Slam Governor Christie For Threatening Government Shutdown Joint statement by Colin Hanna, President of Let Freedom Ring USA, Inc., Jenny Beth Martin, President Co-Founder of Tea Party Patriots and Rick Manning, President of Americans for Limited Government, in response to Governor Christie’s government shutdown threat  “Governor Christie’s healthcare cash grab is a political vendetta. Now he’s threatening to shut down the government, View Article Read More Top Story June 30, 2017 | Stephen Dinan ‘Obamaphone’ program stashes $9 billion in private bank accounts The controversial “Obamaphone” program, which pays for cellphones for the poor, is rife with fraud, according to a new government report released Thursday that found more than a third of enrollees may not even be qualified. Known officially as the Lifeline Program, the phone giveaway became a symbol of government waste in the previous administration . View Article Read More Top Story June 29, 2017 | Colin A Hanna Don’t Count U.S. Steel Out If we were to buy into the media’s breathless commentary, we would be led to believe the sky is falling on U.S. Steel after an unexpected first quarter earnings report for 2017. Bucking the trend of fear-stoking headlines, I am inclined to look at U.S. Steel’s positive long-term economic outlook and rebuff many of the View Article Read More Top Story June 29, 2017 | Jillian Kay Melchior Solar Energy: Not As Clean As You Think Environmentalists often take a simplistic view of energy production: traditional energy is bad/harmful, renewable energy is good/safe. So it’s noteworthy—and praiseworthy—when a green publication digs into the nuance, reporting honestly about the environmental impact of alternative energy. That’s just what Environmental Progress did this month, conducting an in-depth investigation into solar panel waste. The website, run View Article Read More Top Story June 29, 2017 | Jillian Kay Melchior The $15 disaster: Seattle’s grim warning for NYC The Fight for $15 has a history in New York — in 2012, hundreds of minimum-wage workers launched the movement by walking off their jobs to protest and demand a higher minimum wage. But if you want a glimpse of the future for the city, look at Seattle. A new study published by University of View Article Read More Top Story June 28, 2017 | Salvador Rizzo Democrats Plot to Oust Prieto Unless He Caves on Horizon Vincent Prieto. Kevin B. Sanders for Observer In an explosive development, a group of Democratic lawmakers is planning to oust Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto on Thursday if he refuses to post a bill that would restructure New Jersey’s largest health insurer, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, three sources told Observer. Gov. Chris Christie for months View Article Read More Top Story June 27, 2017 | WSJ Opinion Christie’s Insurance Shakedown  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks in Trenton, N.J., June 27. PHOTO: SETH WENIG/ASSOCIATED PRESS New Jersey Governor Chris Christie made his reputation prosecuting political corruption, but he now sees nothing unseemly about shaking down the state’s largest health insurer to backfill the budget and fund new anti-opioid spending. The lame-duck Governor has given View Article Read More Top Story June 27, 2017 | Colin A Hanna Kim Guadagno is right. Stop Christie’s ‘Last Minute’ Healthcare Raid! Statement by Colin Hanna, President of Let Freedom Ring USA, Inc. in response to NJ Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno’s opposition to Governor Christie’s attempted raid of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey. Kim Guadagno is right. Stop Christie’s ‘Last Minute’ Healthcare Raid! “Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno’s statement opposing Governor Chris Christie’s outrageous healthcare View Article Read More Top Story June 27, 2017 | LUKE ROSIAK Probe continues in House Dems Information Technology contractors Multiple members of Congress hired as their information technology (IT) administrator an individual whose most recent job experience was being fired from McDonald’s, The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group has learned. Spokesmen for the members won’t say what their bosses knew at the time, but the hiring decisions highlight the role — witting or unwitting View Article Read More Top Story June 23, 2017 | Colin A. Hanna/Let Freedom Ring; Jenny Beth Martin/Tea Party Patriots; Rick Manning/Americans for Limited Government Governor Chris Christie has sold his political soul Joint statement by Colin Hanna, President of Let Freedom Ring, Jenny Beth Martin, President Co-Founder of Tea Party Patriots and Rick Manning, President of Americans for Limited Government, in response to Governor Christie’s $200 million pork barrel spending budget giveaway “Governor Chris Christie has sold his political soul. After a failed extortion attempt to View Article Read More Top Story June 22, 2017 | Colin A. Hanna Governor Christie’s arrogance is on full public display Statement by Colin Hanna, President of Let Freedom Ring, Commending NJ Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto for Standing Up to Governor Christie’s Healthcare Raid “Governor Christie’s arrogance is on full public display this week as he ups the ante on his irresponsible plan to raid the reserve funds of not-for-profit health insurer, Horizon Blue Cross Blue View Article Read More Top Story June 21, 2017 | Jennifer Harper Rolling Thunder Holds 30th Ride for Freedom Photo by: ROD LAMKEY JR Artie Muller, national executive director and founder of Rolling Thunder, Inc. For three decades, they have faithfully fired up their machines, raised up Old Glory and taken off on a mission of freedom, remembrance and resolve. This is the true essence of Rolling Thunder, an annual event which draws View Article Read More Top Story June 16, 2017 | John Wilkerson House GOP Pulls Medical Malpractice Bill Over Concerns About Violating States’ Rights House Republicans postponed a floor vote on medical malpractice legislation because some conservatives are worried about imposing federal standards on states, according to Freedom Caucus Chair Mark Meadows (R-NC). Tort reform is one of many issues that House Republicans had wanted to address in the American Health Care Act but were forced to deal with View Article Read More Top Story June 16, 2017 | Colin A. Hanna Should Obamacare be the Model for Higher Education? © Getty Images How detached from reality must someone be to cite Obamacare as a model of a good government program? Insurance premiums have skyrocketed for citizens an average of 22 percent, and numerous insurance exchanges have folded, often leaving people with only one healthcare provider per state. With this track record, it’s hard to View Article Read More Top Story June 9, 2017 | Colin A. Hanna Don t federalize medical malpractice reform! Press Release – For Immediate Release June 9, 2017 West Chester, PA – The House is expected to consider HR 1215 (medical malpractice reform) next week. Let Freedom Ring sent a letter in opposition to the federalization of tort reform to House leadership today. Federalism is the true source of American exceptionalism.  A big View Article Read More Top Story June 9, 2017 | Mark O'Hara Trump’s Trade Policies: Will We See US Steel Versus Apple? Trump’s trade policies The Trump administration is investigating whether steel imports are threatening US national security. A similar probe is also being carried out for aluminum imports. If the United States decides to levy import duties on all steel imports, it could be a real game changer for US steel companies such as United States View Article Read More Top Story June 2, 2017 | Ethan Barton Judicial Watch Sues State Department, USAID for Documents on Funding to Soros’ Foreign Campaigns Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit against the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development for records on funding awarded to George Soros’ Open Society Foundation-Albania, the conservative nonprofit watchdog announced Wednesday. The suit was filed May 26 after both government agencies failed to respond to Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act requests. The View Article Read More Top Story June 2, 2017 | Adam Andrzejewski Brookings Institution The Progressive Jukebox Funded By U.S. Taxpayers Washington, D.C. is known for its monuments, but it is also known for its “ivory tower” think tanks. These institutions can serve a valuable role in providing dispassionate and empirical analysis in divided times. One of the pre-eminent D.C. think tanks is the Brookings Institution, which has nearly half-a-billion dollars in assets and deep ties View Article Read More Top Story June 1, 2017 | Rachel del Guidice Report Finds Thousands of Noncitizens on Voter Rolls in Virginia A conservative legal organization has found that thousands of noncitizens have been on voter rolls in Virginia. (Photo: Tannen Maury /EPA/Newscom ) Virginia election officials removed thousands of voters from voter rolls between 2011 and May 2017, according to a conservative legal organization. In a report released Tuesday, the Public Interest Legal Foundation, a conservative View Article Read More Top Story May 30, 2017 | Ken Blackwell - Former Ohio Secretary of State Free Trade Must Be Fair To American Workers Last year alone our nation’s economy exported more than $1.45 trillion worth of goods to various points all across the world – accounting for nearly eight percent of our gross domestic product.   That’s $4,500 for every man, woman and child in our country. Through countless economic reinventions, our workers have proven they can compete with View Article Read More Top Story May 25, 2017 | Michael Sainato Debbie Wasserman Schultz Threatens Capitol Police Over IT Staffer Investigation In February 2017, Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s top IT staffer, Imran Awan, was reported as under criminal investigation for the theft of a wide range equipment and data. Awan and several other staffers are accused of accessing congressional computers without permission. Its still unclear what, if any, data was stolen and what the motives for the breach were . View Article Read More Top Story May 24, 2017 | Colin A. Hanna Scott Garrett, a great outside-the-box choice to head the Ex-Im Bank Let Freedom Ring’s President, Colin Hanna, applauds President Trump’s nomination of former Congressman Scott Garrett to be president of the Export-Import Bank. As a seven-term former Member of Congress, he is familiar with the Ex-Im Bank through his experience on the House Financial Services Committee, which has oversight responsibilities for the agency.  While in Congress, View Article Read More Top Story May 19, 2017 | Ken Blackwell The OPEC Meeting Reminds Us: Pursue True Energy Security This week, the energy ministers of petro-states around the world gather—yet again—in Vienna for the semi-annual OPEC meeting—an absurd confab in which the holders of the world’s cheapest and largest oil reserves discuss how they can manage global oil supply to their benefit. Let this meeting serve as a reminder to us in View Article Read More Top Story May 19, 2017 | Newt Gingrich Gingrich: Surrender or fight our country is at stake President Donald Trump holds his hand over his heart for the U.S. National Anthem as he attends the Coast Guard Academy commencement ceremonies to address the graduating class in New London, Connecticut, U.S. May 17, 2017.     (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque) Republicans, in particular the Trump administration, are approaching a historic decision that will shape America for View Article Read More Top Story May 12, 2017 | Wall Street Journal Aetna Says Sayonara to ObamaCare The exchanges lose another insurer, not that Democrats will admit it.   PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS May 11, 2017 7:15 p.m. ET For all the media think pieces about the nature of truth in the Trump era, Democrats have their own alternative facts about ObamaCare. To undermine the GOP case for repeal and replace, they claim View Article Read More Top Story May 10, 2017 | The Senate Republican Policy Committee Pre-Existing Conditions Provisions in the AHCA Democrats have been flooding the airwaves with Pinocchio-worthy claims about the American Health Care Act that passed the House last week. Some of the most misleading have to do with how the bill deals with people who have pre-existing health conditions. Democrats sowing misunderstanding on this subject helped propel Obamacare to passage in 2010. It View Article Read More Top Story May 8, 2017 | Senator Pat Toomey Congress must seize chance to pass pro-growth tax reform The Trump administration s tax plan includes reforms that are just what we need to jump-start our economy, generate growth and income gains, and fulfill a major campaign promise. So what are the obstacles to getting some version of the president s tax reform done? First, doing it right will increase budget deficits in the short run, View Article Read More Top Story May 1, 2017 | Michael Sainato DNC Lawyers Argue DNC Has Right to Pick Candidates in Back Rooms On April 28 the transcript was released from the most recent hearing at a federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on the lawsuit filed on behalf of Bernie Sanders supporters against the Democratic National Committee and former DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz for rigging the Democratic primaries for Hillary Clinton. Throughout the hearing, lawyers representing View Article Read More Top Story April 28, 2017 | ROGER L SIMON Will Fascism Come to America through Its Colleges and Universities? If fascism comes to America, it will be through our college and university system. The biggest cowards in our country today are many, if not most, of our college and university administrators followed closely by a fair amount of their faculty.  They are allowing their institutions to be taken over by a monolithic world view that is increasingly totalitarian View Article Read More Top Story April 26, 2017 | Josh Siegel What Trump Has Done on Foreign Policy, National Security in First 100 Days In his first 100 days, President Donald Trump—who campaigned on an “America first” platform—has used the power of his office to act on the world stage. He’s approved the launch of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles against the Syrian regime of Bashar Assad in retaliation for a deadly chemical weapons attack on civilians. View Article Read More Top Story April 7, 2017 | Colin A. Hanna Governor Christie has a scheme to raid NJ funds Statement by Colin Hanna, President of Let Freedom Ring, in response to Governor Chris Christie’s Scheme to Try and Raid the Reserve Funds of Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey “Governor Chris Christie’s desperate attempt to try and rehabilitate his political image on the backs of hard working New Jersey taxpayers is View Article Read More Top Story April 4, 2017 | Phil Kerpin Trump should end Congress’s illegal Obamacare Exemption The House effort to repeal and replace Obamacare flamed out in spectacular fashion and leaders in Congress seem content to move on to other issues.  But the American people continue to suffer with skyrocketing premiums and ever-smaller provider networks. About a third of the counties in America have only one insurance company left in the View Article Read More Top Story March 31, 2017 | Colin Hanna China Stonewalls U. S. Steel s Cybertheft Lawsuit 3/27/2017 Our country s ongoing battle against illegal hacking and cybertheft waged by foreign countries has reached a boiling point. In U. S. Steel s much publicized cybertheft lawsuit against China, a complete lack of cooperation and blatant stonewalling by a Chinese government-owned steel company forced the American steel company to temporarily withdraw one portion of its View Article Read More Top Story March 15, 2017 | LUKE WACHOB Gorsuch Understands How Bureaucratic Bullies Harm First Amendment Rights One of the major threats to free speech today is not censorship. It’s harassment. Here’s how it works. People join or give money to groups that support causes they believe in. Those groups attract the ire of government officials when they criticize them or take a position they oppose. Unable to ban the group from View Article Read More Top Story February 28, 2017 | SCOTT MCKAY Did Democrats aid and abet terrorists seeking American secrets? Since Donald Trump took office there has been ubiquitous media coverage of what can most properly be termed crap. There was the fake story about the bust of Martin Luther King that was supposedly removed from the Oval Office. There was the New York Times’ slanted report claiming contacts of some frequency between the Donald View Article Read More Top Story February 13, 2017 | Rowan Scarborough Do non-citizens vote in U.S. elections? Academic feud over noncitizen voters resurfaces with fraud probe A small research group has entered the debate on voter fraud, siding with academics who estimate that large numbers of noncitizens illegally register and vote in U.S. elections. Just Facts, founded in New Jersey 20 years ago by a Brown-educated mechanical engineer, released its findings as View Article Read More Top Story February 10, 2017 | David French The Ninth Circuit s dangerous ruling The Ninth Circuit Just Issued a Dangerous Ruling against Donald Trump’s Immigration Order After the Ninth Circuit’s dangerous precedent, the Trump administration needs to slow down and consider its next move. It’s often said that bad facts make bad law. In the case of the Ninth Circuit’s just-issued ruling continuing the nationwide injunction against Donald View Article Read More Top Story February 10, 2017 | Megan McArdle Obamacare Exchanges Were in Big Trouble Before Trump Healthcare.gov enrollment came in well below what was anticipated last month. After running very slightly ahead of last year’s numbers in December, January brought the news that about 400,000 fewer people had enrolled on the federal exchanges than did so in 2016. Those are scary numbers, not so much for the absolute size of the View Article Read More Top Story November 28, 2016 | Jessica Vaughan How Trump s Plan to Deport Criminal Illegal Aliens Would Work Even as immigration-enforcement officers across the country are breathing what one deportation officer described as a collective sigh of relief following Donald Trump s election, the president-elect s announcement on 60 Minutes that he plans to start with the estimated two million criminal aliens has been met with a combination of scorn and skepticism, at least in View Article Read More Top Story November 9, 2016 | GEORGE NEUMAYR Trump Thumps The Ruling Class Again In August, the Washingtonian ran an article entitled, “The Washington Post Can’t Find A Columnist Who Supports Trump.” But the article did note “there have been some decent Trump-curious articles in and outside the Post this year, though they’re generally less about his ideas and more about what he represents. Tucker Carlson wrote for about how View Article Read More Top Story November 8, 2016 | J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS Leaked Documents Reveal Expansive Soros Funding to Manipulate Federal Elections Leaked funding documents reveal an effort by George Soros and his foundations to manipulate election laws and process rules ahead of the federal election far more expansively than has been previously reported. The billionaire and convicted felon moved hundreds of millions of dollars into often-secret efforts to change election laws, fuel litigation to attack election View Article Read More Top Story November 7, 2016 | JED BABBIN Clinton’s River of Corruption If she wins, she’ll pick up where her predecessor left off. Like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, Illinois’s Big Muddy River carries its detritus downstream. It picks up about seven other tributaries, including the Arkansas and White Rivers that brought us Bill Clinton to form the wide Mississippi. If you think in those terms and View Article Read More Top Story November 5, 2016 | Todd Beamon Florida Elections Worker: I Was Fired For Witnessing Possible Absentee Ballot Fraud A temporary worker for the Broward County Supervisor of Elections Office in Florida has alleged in a sworn affidavit obtained by Newsmax that she was fired this week after witnessing possible absentee ballot fraud by office workers. But the State Attorney s Office concluded Friday that the workers were duplicating ballots by hand from damaged originals View Article Read More Top Story November 4, 2016 | Hans A. von Spakovsky & Jason Snead Lightning strike more likely than Election Fraud? It’s a favorite Democratic talking point. It’s also completely false. Speaking at a partisan fundraiser in Florida last month, President Barack Obama touched on a number of issues near and dear to the hearts of liberals. It was part stump speech, part farewell-tour stop — and part chance to knock efforts at ensuring election integrity View Article Read More Top Story November 4, 2016 | Ritika Gupta George Soros Spends $2 Million to Oust Sheriff Arpaio In a bid to defeat Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona, billionaire George Soros has donated $2 million, Politico reported. It s the latest big expenditure by Soros in local law enforcement campaigns in the last 12 months. Soros campaign will file documents Friday declaring his investments against Arpaio, the report said. Billionaires Laura and View Article Read More Top Story November 3, 2016 | From the Conservative Tribune ALERT: After FBI Announcement, Security Officers Issue Shock Warning About Huma Saudis Huma Abedin’s email (and the fact that it was found on the computer of her grubby estranged husband, serial pervert Anthony Weiner) may be what’s grabbing all the headlines when it comes to Hillary Clinton’s most trusted aide. However, a forthcoming documentary that includes information about Abedin’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, Saudi Arabia and Al View Article Read More Top Story November 2, 2016 | GEORGE NEUMAYR Special Report Hillary’s Champagne Socialism WikiLeaks captures the scope of it. One of the images that emerged from Hillary’s hacked emails is that of comically greedy boomers scurrying to scoop up every last dollar before her campaign of class warfare began. Hillary was furious that her aides didn’t want Bill Clinton to give a six-figure speech to Morgan Stanley a View Article Read More Top Story November 2, 2016 | Peter Hasson REVEALED: Liberal Money’s Longterm Strategy To Control Public Opinion A leaked memo from current Clinton campaign chair John Podesta to a handful of liberal billionaires in late 2007 lays out the longterm progressive strategy to dominate American politics by creating an “echo chamber” to control public discourse and changing American demographics to make them more “advantageous.”   Billionaire investor George Soros of Soros Fund Management attends the View Article Read More Top Story October 31, 2016 | Chris Enloe Federal investigators obtain warrant to search for Clinton emails The FBI obtained a warrant Sunday to begin searching newly discovered emails that may be relevant to the bureau’s criminal probe of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server. FBI investigators want to review emails of longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin that were found on a device seized during an unrelated sexting investigation View Article Read More Top Story October 31, 2016 | Michael Goodwin Hillary has only herself to blame for the mess she’s in We must forgive Mark Twain for his error when he declared that “history never repeats itself but it often rhymes.” After all, he’d never met the Clintons. If Twain were alive now, he would be astonished at how the headlines over the email scandal roiling the presidential race are virtual repeats of the family’s 1990s View Article Read More Top Story October 28, 2016 | Brendan Kirby Obama Prison Break Continues: Nearing 1,000 Commutations President Obama on Thursday pushed ahead with his aggressive use of presidential clemency powers, announcing that he was reducing sentences for another 98 convicted felons — including 42 who were serving life prison terms. In addition, 19 of the prisoners were serving time for firearms offenses. The move was not surprising. It is the fourth time View Article Read More Top Story October 28, 2016 | Jazz Shaw Jury delivers a big surprise in the Oregon standoff case The trial of two of the Bundy brothers, Ammon and Ryan, as well as five others involved in the Oregon wildlife refuge standoff last year, came to a close yesterday and the results were nothing short of explosive. The men were charged with conspiracy related to impeding federal workers at the facility, a charge which encompassed View Article Read More Top Story October 27, 2016 | Cathy Burke WikiLeaks: Clinton Confidant Raised Money for Foundation, Got Bill Paid Gigs An internal memo released Wednesday by WikiLeaks reveals how a longtime Clinton confidant played an unorthodox dual role – raising money for the Clinton Foundation and finding paid work for Bill Clinton, The Hill reports. The 12-page document written in 2011 by Doug Band of Teneo, a private consulting firm that raised millions for the View Article Read More Top Story October 25, 2016 | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Confirmed double-digit insurance premium hikes WASHINGTON (AP) — Premiums will go up sharply next year under President Barack Obama s health care law, and many consumers will be down to just one insurer, the administration confirmed Monday. That s sure to stoke another Obamacare controversy days before a presidential election. Before taxpayer-provided subsidies, premiums for a midlevel benchmark plan will increase an View Article Read More Top Story October 21, 2016 | Edmund Kozak Eight Hillary Debate Lies Debunked Another presidential debate, another master class in straight-faced lying from Hillary Clinton. Clinton didn’t pass up her final chance to mislead the country about her policy positions, damning scandals — and, of course, Donald Trump. When it came to the subject of the Supreme Court, Clinton clearly hoped voters would take her for some sort of View Article Read More Top Story July 16, 2016 | JC Callahan Colin Hanna to Host New Show on Salem Radio Network Affiliate in Philadelphia ***NEWS RELEASE*** For Immediate Release July 14, 2016 Colin Hanna to Host New Show “Conservative Solutions to Liberal Problems” on the Salem Radio Network affiliate in Philadelphia, WNTP News Talk 990 AM beginning Saturday July 30 at 8:00 am PHILADELPHIA, PA — Colin Hanna will host a new show Conservative Solutions to Liberal Problems on View Article Read More Top Story July 1, 2016 | Steven G. Bradbury Clarence Thomas 25 years on the Supreme Court are a triumph of perseverance Clarence Thomas was born into a community of Americans scratching out a living in the lowest tidal marshes of society, utterly vulnerable to arbitrary power and to the suffocating darkness of “impenetrable bigotry,” as he describes in his memoir My Grandfather’s Son. But he was blessed—saved from the shanties and squalid tenements of segregated Savannah View Article Read More Top Story April 28, 2016 | Sarah Feldpausch Five Reasons to Impeach IRS Chief John Koskinen Taxpayers deserve a transparent and accountable government. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen has shown active neglect to his duties with respect to uncovering the truth in the Lois Lerner conservative targeting scandal. The agency has continually displayed extraordinary lack of responsibility in many capacities. Koskinen has proved to be incapable of managing taxpayer funds and protecting View Article Read More Top Story February 8, 2016 | Matt Mackowiak Bill to ‘Sunset the Tax Code’ Reaches 144 Cosponsors ***NEWS RELEASE*** For Immediate Release October 20, 2016 Bill to ‘Sunset the Tax Code’ Reaches 144 Cosponsors ATR President Grover Norquist Endorses Legislation PHILADELPHIA, PA — H.R. 27, a bill to Sunset the Tax Code on Jan. 1, 2020 for the purpose of setting a hard deadline for tax reform, View Article Read More Top Story February 2, 2016 | Peter Roff The IRS Is Up to No Good If there is one federal agency that has clearly run amok during the Obama administration, it s the United States Internal Revenue Service. From the harassment of tea party groups applying for nonprofit status to the defiance of congressional subpoenas, it s an agency badly in need of a thorough housecleaning. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen is already View Article Read More Top Story January 15, 2016 | Barbara Hollingsworth Allen West: Obama’s ISIS Comments Show ‘Complete Disconnect’ With Reality Comments made by President Obama during his final State of the Union address demonstrated the commander-in-chief’s “complete disconnect” with the reality of the threat Islamic State terrorists pose to the United States and his lack of a strategic plan to defeat them, former congressman Allen West told CNSNews.com. During his speech Tuesday night, Obama characterized ISIS View Article Read More Top Story January 15, 2016 | Susan Jones Carson Bemoans National Incivility: You Start Reading an Article and You Go to the Comments Section Asked whether former President Bill Clinton s past indiscretions are a legitimate campaign issue and whether Hillary Clinton should be criticized as an enabler of sexual misconduct, Dr. Ben Carson said Americans should be able to look at past presidents behavior and what it means. But you know, here s the real issue Is this View Article Read More Top Story January 12, 2016 | Kathryn Watson Emails Show Feds Specifically Targeted Faith Groups Under Obamacare Mandate Lawyers filing an amicus brief on behalf of Little Sisters of the Poor before the U.S. Supreme Court claim federal health officials were working behind the scenes years ago to make as many religious organizations as possible subject to Obamacare’s contraception coverage mandate. Internal government emails from October 2011 and July 2012 obtained under the Freedom View Article Read More Top Story January 12, 2016 | Ken Blackwell Not Resisting Political Correctness Could Cost Americans Their Lives Political correctness has become one of the constants of our age. Many of the examples are more ridiculous than anything else. Inappropriate Halloween costumes, campus safe zones free from controversial ideas, saying “happy holidays,” and now, from Sweden, men sitting when they have to urinate. But at a time when people are being murdered at View Article Read More Top Story January 12, 2016 | Susan Jones Gen. John Kelly: Gitmo Detainees All Bad Boys, But No One s Trying to Impede Their Release Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, Commander of U.S. Southern Command until he retires at the end of January, told reporters last week that the remaining 105 inmates held at the U.S. Navy base are all bad boys. Nevertheless, around 50 of them have been cleared for release as President Obama insists on closing down the View Article Read More Top Story January 11, 2016 | Chuck Grassley What Obama Got Wrong on Guns This week, President Barack Obama announced executive actions related to guns. Here are 10 common myths about firearms.  Myth No. 1: Firearm purchases at gun shows do not require a background check due to the “gun show loophole.” Facts: When the president and others refer to the “gun show loophole,” they imply that there are View Article Read More Top Story December 7, 2015 | LISA LERER, ASSOCIATED PRESS Clinton Offers Exit Tax American Companies Should NOT Save Money on Taxes Hillary Clinton on Wednesday will unveil a proposal for a new exit tax aimed at cracking down on corporate inversions, a practice that permits U.S. companies to merge with corporations overseas to lower their tax bill. The new tax would be part of a broader effort to target what experts say is roughly $2 trillion View Article Read More Top Story November 29, 2015 | Fox News Sunday Interview Carly Fiorina: Simplify the Tax Code Carly Fiorina, Republican Presidential Candidate on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace November 29, 2015 (excerpts) We need to do some very specific things [including] radically simplifying the tax code. I think fundamentally what we ought to do is have the government to take away less money so that it has to give less View Article Read More Top Story November 25, 2015 | Richard Pollock Here’s President Obama’s Other Syrian Problem President Barack Obama’s longest-running Syrian problem may not but refugees, but Chicago’s powerful Syrian-American “godfather” Antoin “Tony” Rezko who was released from a federal penitentiary in July. Rezko was born and raised in Aleppo, Syria, and came to the United States in the 1970s. Before his arrest and imprisonment, he became Chicago’s most influential Syrian-American. He View Article Read More Top Story November 23, 2015 | Pam Key Attkisson: Obama Won’t Read Intelligence on Groups He Doesn’t Consider Terrorists Wednesday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” veteran journalist Sharyl Attkisson said her sources have told her that President Barack Obama does not want and will not read intelligence reports on groups “he does not consider terrorists,” despite being on a U.S. list of designated terrorists. Attkisson said, “I have talked to people who have View Article Read More Top Story November 18, 2015 | Barbara Hollingsworth Author on Common Core: ‘A Comprehensive Dumbing Down of American Education at Every Level’ “The Common Core is supposed to be improving state standards in education, but its bigger effect has been a comprehensive dumbing down of American education at every level, from kindergarten through graduate school,” Peter Wood, president of the National Association of  Scholars, said in an interview with CNSNews.com. Wood is a co-author of Drilling to the Core: View Article Read More Top Story November 18, 2015 | Susan Jones AG Lynch: Vetting Syrian Refugees Does Present Challenges to Law Enforcement Attorney General Loretta Lynch admitted on Tuesday that vetting Syrian refugees does present challenges to law enforcement. However, that does not mean we will stop trying to obtain data and utilize that screening system, she told the House Judiciary Committee. But certainly, as the (FBI) director has indicated, there are challenges to a system based View Article Read More Top Story November 12, 2015 | Kyle Olsen Protesters Desecrate U.S. Flag Outside GOP Debate; Milwaukee Police Recover it and Treat it With Respect Milwaukee police officers are respectful of the American flag because of the liberty it represents. Black Lives Matter protesters just want the freedom, and couldn’t care less about the flag — or the country that affords it. Democratic State Sen. Lena Taylor posted several photos of protesters outside the Milwaukee Theatre where the Republican View Article Read More Top Story November 12, 2015 | Fox News GOP Candidates Tout Tax Plans, Vow To Gut IRS At Undercard Debate Republican presidential candidates touted plans to simplify the tax code – and made a punching bag out of the IRS at the opening of the first of two GOP debates Tuesday evening. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said at the Fox Business Network/Wall Street Journal debate that he would get rid of special interest View Article Read More Top Story November 12, 2015 | Stephen Moore Six takeaways from the great Milwaukee GOP debate Well, if CNBC got an F then Fox Business News gets an A. The winners of Tuesday night s GOP debate in Milwaukee were the audience and the Republican party. This wasn t just a debate. It was a tutorial on growth, taxes, health care, trade, regulation, and the Fed. Six random takeaways: 1. Every candidate argued for View Article Read More Top Story November 11, 2015 | Matthew Frankel The 2016 Presidential Candidates Tax Plans, and How They Could Affect Your Wallet There are numerous issues to consider when choosing who to vote for in 2016, but taxes are almost certainly among the most important.  Many of the candidates have released comprehensive tax plans outlining everything from proposed tax brackets to how long the tax forms should be.  Others, however, have simply issued general guidelines, such as View Article Read More Top Story November 10, 2015 | Terence P. Jeffrey Radical Students at Yale Use Thug Tactics to Shut Down Free Speech Students at Yale on Saturday protested—and in one case disrupted—an event held by the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program that was designed to highlight the importance of freedom of speech. According to a report in the Yale Daily News “several attendees were spat on” by the protestors. The targets of the protest and disruption were View Article Read More Top Story November 10, 2015 | Hadas Gold for Politico Fox Business Intend to Run Better Economic Presidential Debate Than CNBC Did Fox Business Network, the host of Tuesday’s GOP debate, has its claws out — not for the candidates, as its moderators vow to stick closely to the issues, but for its more famous competitor CNBC. Tuesday’s encounter will be the first Republican debate since CNBC’s on Oct. 28, after which multiple campaigns blasted the moderators View Article Read More Top Story November 5, 2015 | by Matthew Boyle 28 Oct 2015 BOULDER, Colorado Larry Kudlow: Trump s 15% Corporate Tax Plan is Spot On BOULDER, Colorado — CNBC anchor Larry Kudlow, a noted economist, tells Breitbart News in the spin room here that 2016 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s corporate tax plan—a 15 percent rate—is “spot on.” “I’ve endorsed Donald’s 15 percent corporate tax rate many times,” Kudlow told Breitbart News in a brief interview during a commercial break. I View Article Read More Top Story November 4, 2015 | House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam Iran Terror Financing and the U.S. Tax Code Chairman Roskam Opening Statement: Iran Terror Financing and the Tax Code Remarks as Prepared for Delivery     NOVEMBER 4, 2015 WASHINGTON, DC — Today, House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) delivered the following opening statement during a hearing on presidential authority to waive anti-terror provisions in the tax code with View Article Read More Top Story November 1, 2015 | Terence P. Jeffrey - October 28, 2015 RNC Criticized by Conservative Leaders for GOP Presidential Debate on CNBC (CNSNews.com)  With conservative leaders sharply criticizing CNBC’s manner of moderating Wednesday night’s Republican presidential debate—which featured multiple questions framed as personal attacks on the candidates former Attorney General Ed Meese said the leaders of the Republican National Committee who allowed CNBC to moderate the debate should be condemned. After 15 minutes it was clear that this View Article Read More Top Story October 20, 2015 | Paul Bedard Feds dangle $12,000 bonus to firms that hire foreign students The Department of Homeland Security is readying a plan to expand a program that pays U.S. employers to hire foreign STEM students taught in America, a move that could end up punishing American college grads and even the elderly, according to an immigration think tank. In pushing to allow more foreign students into the so-called View Article Read More Top Story October 9, 2015 | Colin A. Hanna Carly Fiorina vs. the “Fact Checkers” – Whither Journalistic Integrity? Carly Fiorina was the standout winner in both the first and second Republican debates, and with that achievement comes a higher profile.  That’s perfectly understandable.  But the condemnation that has been focused on her since the second debate has been so intellectually dishonest that it serves as a case study in media bias. Virtually all View Article Read More Top Story July 23, 2015 | Colin A. Hanna Sunsetting the current tax code Sunsetting the current tax code Tax overhaul proposals will fail if a deadline is not imposed By Colin Hanna  Wednesday, July 22, 2015 Two active Republican presidential candidates have released thoughtful and detailed tax reform plans, and a third has renewed his call for the tax overhaul he promoted in 2008. Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida View Article Read More Top Story June 24, 2015 | Matt Mackowiak 70% support Sunsetting the US Tax Code Let Freedom Ring Releases National Survey Results Showing 70% Support for Sunsetting the Tax Code 75% Believe Tax Code is Unfair, 85% Believe Tax Reform is Unlikely PHILADELPHIA, PA — Let Freedom Ring (LFR), a public policy non-profit organization committed to promoting Constitutional government, economic freedom, and traditional values, today released national survey results that View Article Read More Top Story May 26, 2015 | Colin A. Hanna A Personal Tribute to Jack Templeton Let Freedom Ring lost a great friend and supporter when Jack Templeton passed away a few days ago. Any remembrance of him begins for me with an observation on the character of the man that incorporates his faith as well as his intellect, so I’ll say it this way: Jack Templeton had the purest heart, View Article Read More Top Story April 14, 2015 | Matt Vespa A Modest Proposal: Let’s Sunset The Tax Code So, our tax code is nearly 74,000 pages long. Tax reform has been one of those unicorn issues in Congress. We talk about it, politicians campaign on it, but in the end; it never goes anywhere. Yet, at the start of the new legislative session, there was some hope among Republicans that something could be View Article Read More Top Story March 23, 2015 | Stephan Dinan Obama dealt series of setbacks on immigration President Obama’s immigration policies suffered a rough week, faltering in the courts, taking fire on Capitol Hill, angering his political base and even having his own deportation chief undercut his message as he struggles to find a middle-ground path to overhaul the nation’s immigration system. Read More Top Story March 23, 2015 | JOEL GEHRKE Are ISIS Terrorists ‘Here in the United States?’ ISIS terrorists are “here in the United States,” according to House Homeland Security Committee chairman Michael McCaul (R., Texas), who believes it “would not be so difficult” for them to stage an attack. “Well, we have the foreign fighters. There are about 30,000 of them, 5,000 with Western passports. According to the DNI, Clapper, 180 View Article Read More Top Story January 23, 2015 | Malcolm MacDougall My Insurance Company Killed Me, Despite Obamacare Malcolm MacDougall, a prominent speechwriter and creative director, was diagnosed with prostate cancer earlier this year. Even after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, his insurance company delayed and denied cancer treatments despite MacDougall paying his premiums. This is his story, in his own words, written five days before he died. Read More Top Story January 21, 2015 | MICHAEL D. SHEAR and JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS In State of the Union, Obama Sets an Ambitious Agenda Confident and at times cocky, the president used the pageantry of the prime-time speech for a defense of an activist federal government. He vowed to continue a foreign policy that combines “military power with strong diplomacy,” and he called on Congress to lift the trade embargo on Cuba and pass legislation authorizing the fight against the Islamic State. Read More May 10, 2017 | The Senate Republican Policy Committee Pre-Existing Conditions Provisions in the AHCA Democrats have been flooding the airwaves with Pinocchio-worthy claims about the American Health Care Act that passed the House last week. Some of the most misleading have to do with how the bill deals with people who have pre-existing health conditions. Democrats sowing misunderstanding on this subject helped propel Obamacare to passage in 2010. It View Article Read More April 26, 2017 | Josh Siegel What Trump Has Done on Foreign Policy, National Security in First 100 Days In his first 100 days, President Donald Trump—who campaigned on an “America first” platform—has used the power of his office to act on the world stage. He’s approved the launch of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles against the Syrian regime of Bashar Assad in retaliation for a deadly chemical weapons attack on civilians. View Article Read More March 31, 2017 | Colin Hanna China Stonewalls U. S. Steel s Cybertheft Lawsuit 3/27/2017 Our country s ongoing battle against illegal hacking and cybertheft waged by foreign countries has reached a boiling point. In U. S. Steel s much publicized cybertheft lawsuit against China, a complete lack of cooperation and blatant stonewalling by a Chinese government-owned steel company forced the American steel company to temporarily withdraw one portion of its View Article Read More March 15, 2017 | LUKE WACHOB Gorsuch Understands How Bureaucratic Bullies Harm First Amendment Rights One of the major threats to free speech today is not censorship. It’s harassment. Here’s how it works. People join or give money to groups that support causes they believe in. Those groups attract the ire of government officials when they criticize them or take a position they oppose. Unable to ban the group from View Article Read More February 13, 2017 | Rowan Scarborough Do non-citizens vote in U.S. elections? Academic feud over noncitizen voters resurfaces with fraud probe A small research group has entered the debate on voter fraud, siding with academics who estimate that large numbers of noncitizens illegally register and vote in U.S. elections. Just Facts, founded in New Jersey 20 years ago by a Brown-educated mechanical engineer, released its findings as View Article Read More October 25, 2016 | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Confirmed double-digit insurance premium hikes WASHINGTON (AP) — Premiums will go up sharply next year under President Barack Obama s health care law, and many consumers will be down to just one insurer, the administration confirmed Monday. That s sure to stoke another Obamacare controversy days before a presidential election. Before taxpayer-provided subsidies, premiums for a midlevel benchmark plan will increase an View Article Read More July 1, 2016 | Steven G. Bradbury Clarence Thomas 25 years on the Supreme Court are a triumph of perseverance Clarence Thomas was born into a community of Americans scratching out a living in the lowest tidal marshes of society, utterly vulnerable to arbitrary power and to the suffocating darkness of “impenetrable bigotry,” as he describes in his memoir My Grandfather’s Son. But he was blessed—saved from the shanties and squalid tenements of segregated Savannah View Article Read More April 28, 2016 | Sarah Feldpausch Five Reasons to Impeach IRS Chief John Koskinen Taxpayers deserve a transparent and accountable government. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen has shown active neglect to his duties with respect to uncovering the truth in the Lois Lerner conservative targeting scandal. The agency has continually displayed extraordinary lack of responsibility in many capacities. Koskinen has proved to be incapable of managing taxpayer funds and protecting View Article Read More November 4, 2015 | House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam Iran Terror Financing and the U.S. Tax Code Chairman Roskam Opening Statement: Iran Terror Financing and the Tax Code Remarks as Prepared for Delivery     NOVEMBER 4, 2015 WASHINGTON, DC — Today, House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) delivered the following opening statement during a hearing on presidential authority to waive anti-terror provisions in the tax code with View Article Read More July 23, 2015 | Colin A. Hanna Sunsetting the current tax code Sunsetting the current tax code Tax overhaul proposals will fail if a deadline is not imposed By Colin Hanna  Wednesday, July 22, 2015 Two active Republican presidential candidates have released thoughtful and detailed tax reform plans, and a third has renewed his call for the tax overhaul he promoted in 2008. Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida View Article Read More Kathy Kraninger is the right person to lead the CFPB The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) needs a strong leader who can restore transparency and constitutional accountability to an agency that has acted with reckless abandon since it was created. From levying punitive fines on businesses to reward partisan ‘consumer advocacy’ groups to racking up over $200 million in cost overruns to renovate its Washington View Article Read More Congress must seize chance to pass pro-growth tax reform The Trump administration s tax plan includes reforms that are just what we need to jump-start our economy, generate growth and income gains, and fulfill a major campaign promise. So what are the obstacles to getting some version of the president s tax reform done? First, doing it right will increase budget deficits in the short run, View Article Read More Statement by Colin Hanna, President of Let Freedom Ring, in response to Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey Receiving an “A” rating from Standard and Poor’s “The exceptional grade Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey received today from Standard and Poor’s for its sound fiscal management is yet another example of why Governor Christie’s attempt to raid the company’s reserve funds to rehabilitate his political image is nothing but the Governor s ego and bullying tactics to get what he View Article Read More Sunset The Tax Code The American public recognizes that the current federal income tax system is so complex and so riddled with special deals for special interests that it is inherently unfair and inherently inefficient.The public NEEDS tax reform that results in a simpler and fairer system. View Project Jobs Through Growth The Jobs Through Growth Act gets Washington out of the way and will unleash tremendous private sector growth that creates a jobs renaissance. Help us fight for Jobs Through Growth by signing the petition in support of the plan and asking Representatives to join you! View Project Stop PokerStars in NJ! PokerStars, a company with a long and sordid history of violating the law, is trying to get a license to operate legally in New Jersey. Let Freedom Ring believes that Internet gambling is bad enough as it is and that a company that clearly places profits above people should not be given the opportunity to target our children. View Project Notes from the Third Republican Debate By Colin A. Hanna                10-29-2015 The Republican debate in Boulder was an embarrassment – not for any of the candidates involved, but for CNBC.  I attended the debate, and as I was walking out of the Coors Center, one person randomly walking by succinctly summed up the event when he said, “I didn’t think View Article Play MP3 Our mission is to promote Constitutional Government, Economic Freedom and Traditional Values. Let Freedom Ring is a non-profit, grassroots public-policy organization. We sometimes say that Let Freedom Ring operates “at the intersection of faith and politics." As a 501 (c)4 non-profit corporation, donations to Let Freedom Ring, Inc., are not tax-deductible as charitable contributions.

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