This week there were cheers heard throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia.  Governor Bob McDonnell jubilantly proclaimed that the state had achieved a budget surplus.  There’s only one little problem.  It is not true. Simply put, the surplus announcement is nothing more than the final act […]

The Dodd-Frank Financial Takeover bill has passed the Senate 60-39. The bill will now be sent to Obama’s desk. Bill Wilson , President of Americans for Limited Government, said of the Financial Takeover bill that “the American people have lost one more piece of their liberty, as […]

New England Republican Senators Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, and Scott Brown have indicated they will be voting for the Dodd-Frank financial takeover bill , prompting criticism from Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson . “Senators Snowe, Collins, and Brown, through their support of this bill, are enabling government to perpetuate the […]

Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) has announced that he will support the financial takeover bill in the Senate. In a statement released Monday , Brown said, “I’ve spent the past week reviewing the Wall Street reform bill. I appreciate the efforts to improve the bill, especially the removal of the $19 […]

By Douglas J. Gladstone Somewhere, Ernest Lawrence Thayer is turning over in his grave. With apologies to the late poet, that’s because United States Senator Bob Casey has gone to bat for labor unions. Now, in and of itself, the Pennsylvania Democrat’s recently introduced legislation, […]

By Kevin Mooney — Government agencies and private contractors must incorporate racial and gender preferences into their employment practices under Section 342 of the financial regulation bill , which passed the House on June 30. This key provision calls for the creation of at least 20 new Offices of Minority and Women […]

By Rebekah Rast – The government must have a short-term memory. In the late 1970s America was in the midst of an oil crisis. It wasn’t out of the question for cars to be lined up at service stations for hours waiting to fill up […]

One item that stands out in last week’s World Economic Outlook produced by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), besides the U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) likely grow far slower than projected by the bama Administration, is the seemingly remarkable pace that emerging and developing economies are growing. In India, for example, it is projected […]

By Howard Rich – In a column published last week in The New York Times , Princeton economics professor Paul Krugman condemns recent attempts to inject some common sense into what has become an epidemic of mindless government growth in America and around the world. With the global economy teetering on the brink of another slowdown […]

A July 6 article in the New York Times should have been an eye opener for those that read it. This article tells the story of Scott Nicholson, a young college graduate from the suburbs of Boston who is unable to land his dream job. If the intent […]