05.28.2015

Does the GOP support slave trading overseas?

By Robert Romano Does the party of Abraham Lincoln support human slave trafficking overseas? Believe it or not, we’re about to find out. Last week, the Senate passed trade authority legislation that explicitly bars Malaysia from joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal due to their official U.S. State Department certification as human slave traffickers . According […]

05.26.2015

Cartoon: Clinton propped

05.26.2015

Will the spending pigs squeal this summer?

By Rick Manning Summer is here, and in Congress that means it is spending season. The time when appropriators’ eyes turn to buying those extra little frills that make being a Member of Congress such fun. The budget has been set, and now it’s time to spend […]

05.26.2015

Video: Why are Republicans hell-bent on fast tracking Obama trade authority?

05.21.2015

Letters of marque and reprisal granted by IRS

By Nathan Mehrens In the wake of the IRS scandals involving the targeting of Tea Party and other conservative organizations and leaks of their legally-protected information, one would have thought that the agency would become a little more careful in how it handles its review […]

05.21.2015

Cartoon: Looney Tune Strategy

05.20.2015

Iowa and New Hampshire do the dirty work in picking presidents

By Rick Manning The political party selection process gets a lot of criticism because of the disproportionate impact of the states of New Hampshire and Iowa on both the Republican and Democrat side. After spending a Saturday in Iowa experiencing five different Republican presidential candidates over the […]

05.19.2015

Cartoon: Cut and run

05.18.2015

Time to get Old Hickory off the $20 bill

By Robert Romano Andrew Jackson would be the first to say to take him off the $20 bill. Right on it, the bill says, “Federal Reserve Note,” an institution he would have despised. As President, when the renewal of the Second Bank of the United States’ charter […]

05.15.2015

Fadi Chehade is not the king of the Internet

Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement responding to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) CEO Fadi Chehade’s proclamation that the transition of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) will be complete by the end of 2015: “The arrogance of Fadi Chehade is enormous even by Washington, D.C. standards. While Congress has defunded all NTIA actions […]

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