Freedom

Libertarians and conservatives talk a lot about freedom, but the most important kind of freedom is freedom from domination — and if you take that seriously, ...

But the dichotomy between “negative” freedom from interference and “positive” freedom to act on your “real” underlying interests doesn’t exhaust the possibilities. So they have no realistic option except to rent themselves out for eight hours a day — and it’s only eight hours due to the efforts of people like Steward — to people who do own them. “Republican” theorists — as in ancient Greek and Roman republics — emphasized freedom from domination, and argued that this was a more fundamental kind of freedom than freedom from interference. Absolute freedom, like absolute safety, is impossible — but that doesn’t make humanly achievable degrees of freedom or safety unimportant. She has to fret about her boss’s opinion of her in a way that he doesn’t. Maybe a drug addict, for example, isn’t truly free — you can’t be the master of your own destiny if you’re enslaved to your addiction. But it would be a huge mistake to cede “freedom” to the defenders of the capitalist status quo. It’s fine to defend people or their property with the use of force. But that’s consistent with thinking freedom is very important — and that “freedom” means what libertarians think it means. What about the freedom of pregnant women to decide what happens in their own bodies? When DeSantis wants to lock up a Floridian who smokes a joint in her backyard, he’s going against the first half of that title. And when leftists advocate nationalizing private corporations — or even raising taxes to pay for Medicare for All — they’re going against the second half.

House Freedom Caucus members want to cap nondefense discretionary spending at fiscal 2022 levels for the next decade.

The Freedom Caucus also wants to roll back mandatory spending that Democrats enacted last Congress. “And if you create economic growth you can actually grow out of the debt that we face.” I said I’d have it done by the 9th, I had it done by the 9th,” the president added. “The more they ask for, the more we’re going to ask for.” The Freedom Caucus proposal leaves some spending off the chopping block. To win their backing, McCarthy agreed that the House would write its fiscal 2024 appropriations bills at fiscal 2022 levels and to fight for spending cuts in debt ceiling negotiations. They estimate the fiscal 2024 savings would be $131 billion. The group’s plan represents an official House Freedom Caucus position, which requires backing from a supermajority of the membership. And now I’m hearing things like, well, we’re not going to have our budget till April or May, maybe even June,” Biden said Friday. And that also extends the time.” So it’s appropriate to say ‘consider’ until we see,” the Pennsylvania Republican said. The ultraconservatives routinely voted against past debt limit increases.

Far-right lawmakers on the panel released their list of demands during a press conference on Friday, targeting a number of Democratic-led proposals as being ...

"Members of the House Freedom Caucus would consider voting to raise the debt ceiling contingent upon the enactment of legislation," Biden said at the White House. McCarthy first met with Biden in January to begin negotiations on the debt ceiling. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said her agency would take “extraordinary measures” to prevent the country from defaulting on its obligations. “Grow the economy by enacting major policy changes and reforms to the wasteful, woke, and weaponized federal bureaucracy.” Their plan calls for spending cuts on an array of issues that, if met, would open the door for caucus members to “consider” raising the debt ceiling. It should not be the end-all; it is a baseline to shrinking Washington and not just growing America, but saving America.”

The House Freedom Caucus will release its list of demands Thursday for voting to raise the debt ceiling amid a standoff between Republicans and Democrats.

[CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP](https://foxnews.onelink.me/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products) So we'll deal with the nation's debt, we'll make sure that there is no default, but in a responsible way that changes the trajectory, and we actually have a plan to do it." Republicans have been in a standoff with congressional Democrats and the White House over raising the debt limit. [CBO DIRECTOR INFORMS HOUSE REPUBLICANS THAT THE US DEBT SITUATION IS DIRE: SOURCES](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-republicans-us-debt-nonpartisan-cbo) "We're going to keep spending at the current level by setting top line discretionary spending at the FY 22 levels… "We're going to recoup $80 billion in IRS expansion funds, as well as billions in wasteful climate change spending and the so-called Inflation Reduction Act.

On 8 March, the President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik publicly harassed journalists who write about him and the authorities in a critical manner, and ...

We urge the government of Republika Srpska to take immediate action to protect the safety and freedom of journalists in the country and to withdraw the amendments to the Criminal Code of Republika Srpska. Civil Rights Defenders expresses serious concerns about the current state of media freedom in Bosnia and Herzegovina. On 8 March, the President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik publicly harassed journalists who write about him and the authorities in a critical manner, and called them “liars and deceivers”.

The most conservative bloc of House Republicans said it wants tight restrictions on government spending in exchange for approving a debt-ceiling increase, ...

More broadly, many Republicans are seeking to rein in government spending with the goal of balancing the budget in a decade. House Republicans are expected to release a budget at some point in the next few months. McCarthy wants to push through spending cuts attached to the debt ceiling, which Democrats largely oppose, he will need votes from the Freedom Caucus as well as from more moderate members wary of deep cuts to social programs. Republicans have a narrow majority in the House, with 222 Republicans and 213 Democrats. McCarthy said the original target set for April has been delayed. Republicans and Democrats have taken those programs off the table in this year’s negotiations. Failing to raise the debt ceiling could wreak havoc on global markets. The stance underscores the challenges facing House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) as he tries to keep Republicans unified headed into negotiations with congressional Democrats and Mr. By taking a formal position, the Freedom Caucus members are signaling they will vote as a bloc against any bill that doesn’t have those spending cuts. [bumped up against the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling](https://www.wsj.com/articles/treasury-to-begin-extraordinary-measures-to-pay-bills-amid-debt-ceiling-debate-11674091179) earlier this year and is employing so-called emergency measures to fund the government and its obligations. “This is a blueprint for selling out the middle class, law enforcement and American competitiveness,” said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. Discretionary spending includes defense and nondefense outlays, but excludes programs like Social Security and Medicare.

“The current debt crisis has been created solely by reckless Democrat policies and out-of-control spending,” House Freedom Caucus Chair Scott Perry, ...

[McCarthy](/topics/kevin-mccarthy/) has signaled his intent to continue negotiations with Mr. “America will not default on our debts unless President [Biden](/topics/biden/) chooses to do so.” [GOP](/topics/republican-party/) to affect negotiations. [McCarthy](/topics/kevin-mccarthy/), though, has not signaled whether he is on board with the group’s latest demands. And the very next day, congressional Republicans come out with a plan that would sell the middle class out in order to protect tax breaks for special interests while doing absolutely nothing to reduce the deficit.” on a course for record spending as a percentage of the economy, calls for an 8% increase over what the government is projected to spend in the current fiscal year.

VIENNA/BELGRADE, 10 March 2023 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Teresa Ribeiro, and the Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia, Jan Braathu, ...

She provides early warning on violations of freedom of expression and media freedom and promotes full compliance with OSCE media freedom commitments. The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media observes media developments in all 57 OSCE participating States. “The safety of journalists is a fundamental principle among the OSCE participating states. “I am concerned by acts of violence and threats against journalists in Serbia. Prior to this, an unknown person had confronted Nikić while he was covering a protest of dismissed workers of the Kragujevac ‘waterworks and sewerage’ public utility company. On 7 March, Marko Dragoslavić, a journalist with FoNet news agency, was assaulted by an unknown individual shortly after covering the “Students for Kosovo” rally in Belgrade.

The group called for the rollback of President Biden's student loan forgiveness plan and the cancellation of several climate change projects, ...

"A default on our debt would trigger an economic and financial catastrophe," Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned in testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee Friday. The president and speaker last met in early February to talk about spending. The Freedom Caucus also wants to see the implementation of 1990s-era work requirements on welfare programs that passed under President Bill Clinton. In the near term, the caucus members want to pull back money already appropriated by the Democratic-led Congress during the first two years of Mr. Perry and other members of the Freedom Caucus expressed confidence that McCarthy would not cut a deal with Democrats to raise the debt ceiling. "Simply put, the plan is to shrink Washington and grow America."

House Freedom Caucus Chair Scott Perry (R-Pa.) hit back at President Biden for going after his hardline group's spending demands that it announced Friday, ...

It includes tax hikes on the wealthy as a means for reducing the budget deficit. [In The Know](https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/) [Administration](https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/) [Budget](https://thehill.com/business/budget/) [House](https://thehill.com/homenews/house/) [See All](https://thehill.com/homenews/house/) “What we’re talking about is going back to pre-pandemic levels of spending,” Perry said. Perry said it would aim to keep defense spending at current levels. “For him to mention things like firefighters, police officers and health care – obviously, either he didn’t watch the press conference, he can’t read, or someone is, you know, got their hand up his back and they’re speaking for him, because those are just abject lies,” Perry said. If the pandemic’s over, why are we spending the pandemic levels?”

Too few media outlets have the time, resources and owners willing to fund costly investigations and fight for records and open meetings in court if ...

I take questions from people I know are lefties or people on the right and it doesn’t matter — what matters is whether they’re entitled to the information or not. These are rights of all Americans, the right of everybody, to know what your government is doing. One thing I do find and really appreciate is that freedom of information is not a left or right issue, it is an American issue, it’s an American value. A: It’s really tough because it’s very hard to convince the average person that information about another average person should be out there, right? I know how dedicated they are and how underpaid and overworked most of them are. “A lot of this is happening at the state and local level with freedom of information laws. People have to realize the role that local news organizations play, very vital role they play, in keeping our democracy. A: From my perspective, the more journalists covering Colorado the better. One is the cost. The state also spawned a national legal program, started by Microsoft and law firm Davis Wright Tremaine, providing pro-bono legal services to news outlets. Roberts has been executive director of the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition since 2013. “Especially at a time when news organizations have been diminished in general, local news organizations in particular.

Members of the far-right House Freedom Caucus on Friday demanded steep spending cuts and a rollback of major portions of President Joe Biden's agenda and ...

He listed Medicaid along with housing and food assistance as areas to target with work requirements. Between the lines: The proposal overall is not very heavy ...

[expressed openness](https://www.axios.com/pro/health-care-policy/2023/03/02/medicaid-debt-talks)to Medicaid work requirements last week. The House Freedom Caucus on Friday called for work requirements in Medicaid as part of its demands for raising the debt ceiling. Freedom Caucus calls for Medicaid work requirements

The House Freedom Caucus released its list of demands on Friday that if met would sway its Republican members to vote in favor of raising the debt ceiling.

[said at the White House Friday](https://nypost.com/2023/03/10/biden-whispers-reagan-was-wacko-liberal-guy-while-pushing-for-tax-hikes/). “Do you know what the essence of the enactment of that legislation is? That means cops, firefighters. It means healthcare. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), blasted President Biden for misrepresenting its proposal. “Members of the House Freedom Caucus would consider voting to raise the debt ceiling contingent upon the enactment of legislation,” Biden

Published March 10, 2023 Caitlin Gatlin | Communications & Marketing Manager The City of Lawton is gearing up for the 8th Annual Lawton Fort Sill Freedom ...

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Florida lawmakers are tackling several key issues in the legislative session, some of which have people in Orlando fighting back through petitions and ...