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• Join Congressman Mike Pence for a Tele-Town Hall Tonight

  - Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:33:54 -0600

  Tonight, Wednesday, at 8 p.m. ET we're holding a national tele-town hall meeting with the 3rd ranking Republican in the House and a leading free-market champion - Congressman Mike Pence. I hope you'll join us. Call (888) 356-3090 Ext.14326#.

  We'll brief you on key undecided House members, detail the likely timeline to be used by Speaker Pelosi, and Congressman Pence will walk through conservative alternatives along with his exchanges in recent weeks with President Obama. 

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• The Stimulus Bill’s Hidden Attack on What We Eat, Drink, and Smoke

  - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:06:36 -0600

  by Phil Kerpen

  One of the more extreme proposals floated early in the national health care debate was the idea of taxing soda and other sugary beverages. That trial balloon was almost immediately shot down by the American public, but the Obama administration is attempting to achieve, by subterfuge, soda taxes and a lot of other ways to micromanage our lives in the name of public health—whether or not ObamaCare passes. The mechanism is buried in last year’s $862-billion-and-counting stimulus bill, and works by diverting hundreds of millions of dollars that should be promoting economic growth to instead pay lobbyists to push for higher taxes and nanny-state controls over our lives.

  Read the rest at BigGovernment.com.

  Listen to a related 2-minute KerpenCast.