By Rick Manning – The feel good State of the Union address with the good little boys and girls of the Congress sitting red, blue, red, blue was given a stark reality check by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on January 26th which projected the budget deficit […]

We have covered the failures of subsidized industries in this space in the past. One of the most subsidized is the solar power industry.Whenever an industry requires a subsidy to survive, it usually won’t last. Here is the latest round of solar plant closures : Hit by slow demand and falling prices, two solar […]

By Kevin Mooney — What is a green job? That question has a special relevance here in the early part of 2011 now that Team Obama has altered its environmental strategy. When he campaigned in 2008, President Obama said he would create 5 million new […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Thursday Morning, Here are your morning Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : Government’s “other” gluttony Deficit outlook darkens… Obama’s oxymoron: Government innovation For the budget crisis, a fake solution A presidency to nowhere Schools suffer under Obama’s land grabs George Will: States can handle school reform Barone: Old rules won’t determine the GOP candidate in 2012 Obama’s tribute to Big Government The medical loss ration in ObamaCare is troublesome Obama is stuck in the 1960’s Banking ‘toxic cocktail’ is too big to forget Obama gets caught in Washington D.C. winter storm traffic jam CBO: Social Security to begin running permanent deficits this year…

By Rebekah Rast – “The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.”—Franklin D. Roosevelt There has not been a leader of this country that didn’t stress the importance of educating America’s youth. Even Obama, very recently in his State of the Union address, acknowledged , “Over the next 10 […]

By Frank McCaffrey – A part of Obamacare known as the Medical Loss Ratio can be devastating to a number of people. Americans For Limited Government has analyzed this and reporter Frank McCaffrey has the story.

By Howard Rich – Over the last decade, America’s leaders chose to address the unsustainable growth of an already bloated federal government by spending unprecedented amounts of borrowed money. First there was George W. Bush’s “compassionate conservatism,” a wholesale abandonment of the Republican view of […]

A part of Obamacare known as the Medical Loss Ratio can be devastating to a number of people. Americans For Limited Government has analyzed this and reporter Frank McCaffrey has the story.

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Wednesday Morning, Here are your morning Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : Obama’s spending “freeze” Fact checking Obama and his imbalanced ledger Obama’s SOTU: What crisis? Regulations and rhetoric The speech was nothing but theater Obama’s uninspired State of the Union Rep. Kevin Brady’s reaction to the State of the Union Cartoon of the day, “The State of the Union” Can-do collectivism The great misallocators Uncertainty continues to depress jobs The myth of a divided America Dear AmericaFirst

By David Bozeman – A prevailing myth, common among both liberals and conservatives, is that America is sharply divided, with roughly 35 percent of us liberal (though most polls put that number around 20), 35 percent conservative, with the remaining 30 that could go either […]