By Frank McCaffrey – The guy whose track record includes involvement in the AIG scandal and the Mexican gun smuggling scandal is finding out what it’s like to have the Team Obama Spotlight on him. ALG’s Don Todd explains why James Cole is today’s winner.

UPDATE: The Obama administration is calling on Congress to not adopt the BULB Act. Read why here . By Rebekah Rast – The Better Use of Light Bulbs (BULB) Act could very well turn the lights back on for those in favor of the incandescent light bulb. Expected to receive a vote in the House of […]

The guy whose track record includes involvement in the AIG scandal and the Mexican gun smuggling scandal is finding out what it’s like to have the Team Obama Spotlight on him. ALG’s Don Todd explains why James Cole is today’s winner.

The latest rant from Rick Santelli:

In the latest battle of putting together a 2012 budget that will reduce government spending, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) plans to introduce two different amendments that would reduce the appropriations to energy and water to either FY 2005 levels or FY 2007. Rep. Blackburn plans […]

This is one of the best charts that explains why the GOP should reject tax increases, and shows why taking $1 in tax hikes for every $2 in spending cuts is a bad deal: The chart and explanation below are courtesy of Americans for Tax Reform : In 1990, […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox,  click here ! Good Friday morning, Here are the  Must Reads according to  Adam Bitely : Unemployment: 9.2% Obama must change policy for hope to be restored The next financial crisis Obama adviser thinks unemployment won’t be 2012 campaign issue… You vote: Will unemployment be a big issue in 2012? Is the president serious on debt? Where’s the outage about the budget impasse? The price of big government Defaults, debt ceilings, and the 14th amendment How to measure the deal on the debt ceiling The fight against the NLRB and quickie elections Why ‘funemployment’ isn’t fun

By Rick Manning – For the second month in a row, the employment situation released by the Obama administration reveals that our nation’s economy is in severe distress. Last month’s data was universally described as disastrous and June’s is even worse when you look behind the already […]

By Kevin Mooney and Rebekah Rast – Employers should not have any say in the matter and workers should remain uninformed. This is message the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has for private industry. In June, the three Democrats who sit on the Board proposed rule […]

By Rebecca DiFede – In the wake of the falling economy, millions of college seniors have received their diplomas and stepped off the podium into a world that has no room for them. Despite their expensive bachelor’s degrees, it seemed that there were no positions to […]