By Rick Manning It appears that the white smoke is coming up from the U.S. Capitol and Paul Ryan will be acclaimed as the next Speaker of the House of Representatives. The reluctant leader famously put forward a series of demands in order to take the job, and apparently, his colleagues seem […]

By ALG Staff Nine Obamacare Co-Ops have now failed with the announcement that South Carolina’s Consumer’s Choice Health Insurance Company has gone belly up. Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning had this to say about the failure: “These failures are among the most predictable events in […]

By Dustin Howard The hellish drought in California has casualties. It tried to destroy farmers, and has in some cases, but guess what it really destroyed? The Delta Smelt. The much admired, or reviled, species depending on your perspective has declined beyond the point of […]

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By Robert Romano In September, Congress averted a partial government shutdown when it voted to continue appropriations at 2015 levels, but those only go through December 11, when another omnibus spending bill or continuing resolution will be needed. As such, that means there is still time for […]

  By Dustin Howard In the wake of the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision that imposes same sex marriage on the states, the freedom to dissent against the federal interpretation of marriage is now in jeopardy. Could the government now deny a tax exemption, grant, contract, […]

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By Don Todd Recently, Johnson & Johnson ran an elaborate Internet ad on Politico begging for more government regulation over their business and products.  Adorned with pictures of babies and children (babies and children use cosmetics?), they proclaimed that the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) cosmetic regulations need to be […]

By Dustin Howard It’s not every day Sen. Marco Rubio and Sen. Ted Cruz agree on immigration policy, is it? Both Senators lent their names to the Stop Sanctuary Policies and Protect Americans Act , legislation by David Vitter (R-La.),  and to their credit , so did Sens. Pat Toomey (R-Penn.), Chuck Grassley […]

By Rick Manning As published at http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/technology/257026-fcc-should-leave-legislating-to-congress-and-leave-the The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) seems bent on usurping congressional Article One authority, as their just-announced decision to consider including the “exclusivity rule” on their docket for their next open meeting shows. Let’s be clear: There is no legitimate free-market argument […]