By Frank McCaffrey On the anniversary of 9/11, the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya was attacked. Four Americans were killed including an Ambassador. Here now is our second biggest Big Government Bust.

As originally published at TheHill.com. By Rick Manning Nothing is more infuriating than hearing a politician who has failed to act in six months on a single piece of legislation to end a crisis complaining about someone who has strenuously worked to produce a solution to the problem. Harry Reid, also known […]

By Dennis T. Avery The last woods bison in the United States was apparently shot by a hunter in West Virginia around 1835. For many decades, the woods bison was presumed extinct — until an airplane spotted an isolated herd in the muskeg swamps north […]

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By Frank McCaffrey In 2012, jobs were still an issue! Haven’t they been an issue for the entire Obama Administration? Jobs are our third biggest Big Government Bust!

By David Bozeman The idea that the American left would delight in the political demise of conservative white males certainly comes as a shock to no one.  That theme has animated talk radio since the election.  And let’s give the Democrats their due — they […]

Fox Business hosted ALG president Bill Wilson on their After the Bell program Christmas Eve to discuss how we got so close to going over the fiscal cliff. Bill discusses whether President Obama actually wants to go over the cliff as well as whether John Boehner’s speakership […]

By Frank McCaffrey–Our national debt is larger than any debt anyone has ever seen anywhere in human history! It’s larger than our GDP. Here is our fourth biggest Big Government Bust of 2012.

By Howard Rich There are plenty of reasons why America is teetering on the brink of fiscal collapse – unsustainable entitlement costs, unprecedented welfare expansion and loose monetary policy from the Fed (to name just a few) – but another reason is the shameful exploitation […]

By Robert Romano — The Congressional Budget Office warns the budget deficit was $292 billion for the first two months of fiscal year 2013 , $57 billion more than this time last year. So far, revenues are averaging $172.5 billion a month, and spending $319 billion. For every dollar we spent, we had to borrow 45 cents. That’s an average deficit of $146 billion every month. Even […]