By Frank McCaffrey – Radical Goodwin Liu is being considered for a judgeship yet again. Why won’t Obama stop trying to get this kook on the bench?

By Kevin Mooney — Just prior to the one year anniversary of the moratorium on Gulf of Mexico, Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) has announced that he will introduce the Agency Moratorium Act. The legislation would require congressional approval for expansion of federal regulations restricting energy […]

By Bill Wilson – It feels like we’ve been here before. The malaise-filled economic train wreck of the Carter years has risen zombie-like from the ash heap of history to inflict its special brand of pain and suffering. On May 6, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that unemployment rose from 8.8 percent to 9 percent in April . That includes a 205,000 increase […]

Goodwin Liu has come up with some unusual legal rulings. His ideas have made ALG’s Nathan Mehrens decide that it’s time to put him in the Team Obama Spotlight.

Americans were hoping to see more spending cutbacks than they have seen so far. Rep. Scott Garrett tells us that he spoke with many of these Americans. He conveyed their feelings with us. Reporter Frank McCaffrey has the story.

By Robert Romano – It was a telling moment in America’s political discourse. It hinted at how Republicans might govern should they reclaim a majority in one or both houses of Congress in 2010. “We need to capture this lightning in a bottle,” former Virginia Republican Congressman Tom Davis said of the tea party […]

By Rick Manning – When you filed your taxes this year, did you get a refund larger than the amount the government withheld from your paycheck? If you were one of the 23.1 million tax filers who benefitted from federal government share-the-wealth schemes like the Earned Income […]

By Howard Rich – For the organized labor movement in America, desperate times apparently call for desperate measures. With private sector unions continuing to lose favor in the marketplace and public sector unions facing fresh scrutiny from cash-strapped state governments, organized labor finds itself at […]

The unemployment rate has increased to 9.0%–a blow to the Obama administration’s claims that the recession is over and that jobs are returning. The reaction from the Obama administration to the increase in unemployment? Apparently, they are “pleasantly surprised.” Obama’s top economic adviser Austan Goolsbee said the following: “This was a solid […]

Americans were hoping to see more spending cutbacks than they have seen so far. Rep. Scott Garrett tells us that he spoke with many of these Americans. He conveyed their feelings with us. Reporter Frank McCaffrey has the story.