FREEDOMWORKS 12/30/2014

1. Essays that Champion Educational Freedom - by Logan Albright via The Washington Times Over the last several years, Common Core education standards have become an increasingly important issue for parents and teachers, as they see how children are affected by the policy. Yet, the details of what exactly Common Core is, how it works and how it came to be remain hopelessly complex and difficult for the novice to understand. In the face of slick advertising campaigns by Common Core’s corporate backers and lofty speeches from politicians, the truth can be difficult to ferret out. With the new book, “Common Ground on Common Core,” we finally have a handy, one-volume resource that answers all these questions and more. Read more here... 2. Real Talk with Julie Borowski: How to Fight Common Core Common Core is becoming increasingly unpopular. A recent poll shows that the majority of Americans oppose Common Core educational standards. What can we do to fight it? Download the We Will Not Conform action plan to learn how! Watch here... 3. Congress Should Let ObamaCare's Medicaid Payment Increase Expire - by Jason Pye The Obama administration continues boast of the rise in Medicaid enrollees. Just before Christmas, for instance, Cindy Mann, deputy administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, hailed as a "milestone achievement" the addition of 9.7 million Americans to Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) since October 2013. Read more here... 4. Restore our Rule of Law - by Ted Abram Laurence H. Tribe, of Harvard Law School, strongly believes our Constitution and the Rule of Law must prevail over Federal bureaucrats regulating power plant's CO2 emissions in every state. Tribe writes there is no legislative authority granting the EPA the power to regulate. In fact the statutes clearly denies the EPA from regulating power plants. Tribe abhors the violation of the Constitution: Read more here... 5. Anthem Radio What do you want for Christmas? Watch the Liberty Christmas List where Julie Borowski and her fellow FreedomWorks staffers ask for what they want. Watch here... 6. Jonathan Gruber: "If You Like Single-Payer then ObamaCare Has to Succeed" - by Jason Pye Roughly a month before videos surfaced in which he disparaged American voters and bragged about deceptive tactics used to ram ObamaCare through Congress, Jonathan Gruber, the controversial MIT economist paid nearly $400,000 to help craft the law, appeared on a panel with several other healthcare policy experts to talk about its progress and the continuing debate on healthcare reform. Read more here... 7. Obama's Green Economic Policies Hit Blacks Hardest - by Deneen Borelli via The Washington Times Following the lead of the Rev. Al Sharpton, thousands of protesters have taken to the streets to protest grand jury decisions regarding the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and physical restraint death of Eric Garner in New York, by white police officers. Read more here... In Liberty, Jackie Bodnar Director of Communications, FreedomWorks