By Robert Romano “We fully expect we’re going to exercise that power.” That was House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Tuesday promising to use Congress’ constitutional power of the purse to include policy riders that will defund aspects of the Obama agenda in an upcoming omnibus spending bill in December. It was a seeming […]

By Robert Romano When the Obama administration announced in March 2014 that it would be transferring key aspects of the Internet domain name system governance from the U.S. government to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), it probably thought it would be a slam dunk. That, they would make the announcement transitioning Internet governance, the prescribed date of Sept. 30, 2015 would come and go, […]

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Nov. 3, 2015, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today praised House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) for refusing to rule out policy riders on the upcoming omnibus appropriations bill when he said at a news conference today, “We fully expect we’re going to exercise […]

By Rick Manning Adapted from a speech delivered to the Caffeinated Thoughts Briefing in Des Moines, Iowa on Oct. 31, 2015. Each of us knows that we are living in the most perilous times for our nation in at least 150 years.  $19 Trillion national debt, a devastatingly shrinking Navy, open borders, financial crises, stagnant […]

By Robert Romano and Dustin Howard The war by big government against people who don’t conform to their ever-evolving worldview continues. Take two cases in two different blue states: the Oregon bakers and the Minnesota truckers. Both objected to performing a service on the basis of religious […]

By Don Todd One would think that those who benefited the most from the free enterprise system would be its most ardent defenders when in fact the opposite is often the case. It has been said that free enterprise never wins because when a person succeeds they […]

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By Robert Romano “We can’t stop it. He’s in league with the Democrats.” That was U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie’s (R-Ky.) reaction to a deal by outgoing House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) and the White House to suspend the debt ceiling until March 2017. The measure is expected to require Democrat votes to get across […]