By Rick Manning and Rebekah Rast – As if the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solyndra scandal wasn’t enough for American taxpayers, the U.S. Department of Agriculture decided to jump on the bandwagon of bad tax dollar investments as well. This bad investment was a USDA-backed biofuels plant […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox,  click here ! Good Friday morning, Here are the  Must Reads according to  Adam Bitely : Is Rick Santorum a supporter of limited government? The return of compassionate conservatism? NLRB recess appointments an egregious power grab Obama, the Constitutional anarchist Barack thumbs his nose at the Constitution Unemployment: 8.5% Is the real unemployment rate 11.4%? How about occupying a job? Cutting through the rhetoric on defense sequestration Who’s worse? Romney or environmental regulators?  

By Frank McCaffrey — President Barack Obama has decided to make recess appointments even though congress is not in recess. How did he pull this off? ALG Counsel Nathan Mehrens sat down with reporter Frank McCaffrey to explain.

By Robert Romano — While Barack Obama’s “recess” appointment on Jan. 4 of Richard Cordray to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau when Congress was not even in recess has garnered most of the media’s attention, there were three other picks for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) […]

By Adam Bitely — Let’s get this part out of the way first: Rick Santorum is a better friend of limited government than Barack Obama. How much better is the part that is up for debate. The former Senator from Pennsylvania is all the rage […]

The unemployment rate fell to 8.5% in December. However, this number fails to convey an accurate mage of what the unemployment rate truly is. Since January of 2009, when Obama became President, participation int he labor force has dropped 1.7%! As Americans for Limited Government […]

By Rebekah Rast — A study of late revealed that recent college graduates with bachelor’s degrees in the arts, humanities and architecture experienced significantly higher rates of joblessness than other college degrees. More specifically those with an undergraduate degree in architecture suffered from a 13.9 percent unemployment rate; the arts, 11.1 percent;  and the humanities, 9.4 percent, according to research done by Georgetown University’s Center on […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox,  click here ! Good Thursday morning, Here are the  Must Reads according to  Adam Bitely : Obama’s radical non-recess ‘recess’ appointments Even the left questions the constitutionality of the appointments… Czar Barack Cartoon: Obama’s New Year’s Resolution Who are Sharon Block and Richard Griffin? Can Santorum knock off Romney for the GOP nomination? Rove: After Iowa, Romney is the heavy favorite GOP elites reveling in Romney’s inevitability… Why won’t Romney embrace Reaganomics? Santorum appears to be a conservative technocrat Why Ron Paul matters Search warrant issued, charges on horizon in SEIU voter fraud case in Florida… The curious candidacy of Elizabeth Warren

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By Frank McCaffrey — The President has promised that his Government run health care plan will let you keep your old health care plan if you like it. Well, this is just another phony promise from the President. Here’s our look at the realities of […]