By Richard McCarty Last year, the Service Employees International Union spent over $5 million trying to get a ballot measure passed that would have imposed a huge tax hike on businesses in Oregon. Measure 97 would have increased taxes on businesses’ gross sales, not their profits, by $3 billion each year. […]

By Printus LeBlanc The Hart – Celler Act of 1965 abolished the immigration quota system and liberalized the rules for immigration. It put a priority on family reunification and increased the number of immigrants allowed. The next major immigration act was the Simpson–Mazzoli Act of 1986 . This bill legalized all illegal immigrants in the […]

By Robert Romano The economy grew at an improved, inflation-adjusted 2.6 percent annualized in the second quarter, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reports . That is up from 1.2 percent in the first quarter. While slightly better, it is still nowhere near 3 percent annualized — not seen since 2005 — a level White House Office of […]

By Natalia Castro Venezuela is crumbling and with it, the left’s idea of a perfect socialist system. Yet the country’s President Nicolás Maduro, refuses to realize this obvious fact and instead, has resorted to political violence to silence his opposition. As the economy crumbles, the […]

By Rick Manning Last month, I wrote a piece for The Hill bringing attention to a very important battle over our Intellectual Property Rights here in the United States. Comcast, a massive cable company is stealing the Intellectual Property and Innovation of TiVo. This case has been going on […]

By Natalia Castro Foxconn builds electronics for nearly every major technology company in the world, and now it is creating jobs and opportunities for the American people. The company’s newest factory in southern Wisconsin could be a turning point in bringing manufacturing back to the […]

By Robert Romano As originally published at http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/time-to-restore-local-control-over-zoning-and-end-obamas-hud-intrusion/ Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson has announced that his department will be “reinterpreting” an Obama era regulation that had given the federal government control over local zoning decisions. Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing allowed HUD to halt distribution of more than $3 billion of annual community development block grants to about 1,200 counties and cities unless […]

By Natalia Castro Mandatory spending has gotten out of hand, with programs such as food stamps costing Americans billions, while their recipients rarely give back to the economic growth of the nation. Without entitlement reforms to reign in the growth of this program, it will […]

By ALG Staff The attempt to repeal and replace Obamacare has not been easy, despite Republicans running on the issue since 2010 and holding majorities in the House and Senate, plus the White House. This single issue gave the Republicans the House in 2010, the […]

By Rick Manning As originally published at http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/finance/342800-warrens-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-setting-dangerous?#_=_ Sen. Elizabeth Warren ‘s government-run-wild brain child is continuing its left-wing sprint into the Trump era, and only Congress can stop its usurpations. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the agency created by then-Harvard law professor Warren in the Obama years, effectively to […]