Your host Richard Morrison welcomes guest co-host Jeremy Lott and Editorial Director Ivan Osorio for Episode 63 of the LibertyWeek podcast. We start with CEI’s FOIA fight with the U.S. Treasury, 7-Eleven’s attempt to give consumers a big gulp of government and the solution to a jobless recovery. We then move on to union pension politics, Ireland’s regrettable embrace of EU hegemony and some scantily-clad Olympic News.

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Fidel Castro has endorsed Obama. 

But liberal lawmakers want to curtail the ability of American citizens to endorse or criticize candidates on the radio.  Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) is advocating a return to the so-called “Fairness Doctrine,” which the Kennedy and Johnson administrations used to squelch their critics on talk radio.  Schumer likens conservative talk radio to pornography.  Other influential liberal Senators, like Dick Durbin (D-IL) are also calling for the reimposition of the “Fairness Doctrine.” 

Under the Fairness Doctrine, a radio station that carries a conservative broadcaster…

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The $700 billion bailout of the financial system just got worse, thanks to a rewrite by Senate banking committee chairman Chris Dodd.  If the government loses money on all the “bad debt” it’s buying, the taxpayers will pick up 100% of the tab.  But if markets rebound, or the government makes money on any of its individual purchases, taxpayers won’t keep the money.  Instead, at least 20 percent of it will go into a housing slush fund that will benefit the left-wing group…

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