By Kevin Mooney — High unemployment numbers typically translate into large electoral losses for the political party that holds power. High unemployment numbers that converge with mid-term elections could be particularly problematic for Democrats in that the party that holds the White House typically losses […]

By Rebekah Rast – While the Republican Study Committee (RSC) is working to balance our nation’s budget, Obama and the Democrats in Congress are ensuring our nation plunges further into debt. As Democrats are worried about elections in the months ahead, they don’t want to […]

By Adam Bitely – Nearly 150,000 jobs connected to the offshore oil drilling industry are in jeopardy over hypocrisy from the Obama administration. In the Gulf Coast alone, where the economies of the Gulf States are still recovering from devastating hurricanes, the Obama administration has […]

By Kevin Mooney — With Interior Secretary Ken Salazar working to renew the administration’s push for a six month moratorium on deep water oil and gas drilling, media organizations now have the opportunity to balance out their coverage by reporting on  job loss projections for […]

Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today issued the following statement against a House Democrat proposal to attach $10 billion state education funding to the pending war supplemental : “Now is not the time to play politics with the war supplemental.  House Democrats are holding back critical resources for our fighting men and women on the front lines in Afghanistan and Iraq […]

By Robert Romano – Debate continues in the Senate over a controversial $35.52 billion extension of unemployment welfare benefits as Senate Democrats continue to struggle to find the votes necessary to overcome a filibuster. Joining Republicans in defeating the measure last week were Senators Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson , citing concerns that the combined legislation, which includes $24 billion for Medicaid […]

By Howard Rich – Ponzi schemes rely on people falling for promises that are literally too good to be true — but the outcomes are never really in doubt for the perpetrators of these scams, are they? First they are playing with money that does […]

When judges advance  liberal goals by way of making an end-run around the democratically elected branches of government, they are celebrated in the media. But when they stand in the way of presidential directives that do the bidding of environmental groups, they need to be […]

By Kevin Mooney — Questions are being raised in The New York Times about the relationship between Richard Berman’s for-profit communications firm and the six non-profit firms he founded. The Washington D.C. lobbyist, turned policy advocate, has used the non-profits to help organize against policies […]

By Bill Wilson – Despite the continuing fiscal meltdown facing the federal, state, and local governments, occurring in tandem with the sovereign debt crisis globally, Paul Krugman still appears to have the ear of appropriators. In his Monday column, “Now and Later,” he writes, “Spend now, while the economy remains depressed” promising illusory savings “later, once […]