Chattanooga Times Free Press opinion page editor and columnist Drew Johnson has been fired because of a controversial editorial he penned for the paper, “Take your jobs plan and shove it, Mr. President.” The editorial appeared the day President Barack Obama was visiting the city to make a […]

ALG Editor’s Note: Chattanooga Free Times opinion page editor and columnist Drew Johnson has been fired because of a controversial editorial he penned for the paper. The paper claims he changed the headline at the last minute without approval . Johnson has c ountered on Twitter that “We change headlines all the time at the last minute. I had a filler headline in that stunk […]

By Rick Manning The past couple of weeks in Washington, D.C. have created a buzz around the question of whether Senate Republican Leader has lost control over the Republican Conference.  McConnell’s problems crystallized when Senator John McCain was joined by a few other Senators to cut a […]

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) have a plan to stop the implementation of Obamacare, but they need your help! Click here to sign the Lee-Cruz petition to defund Obamacare ! And then use our Capwiz alert here and let your representatives and senators know that you want them to support the […]

By Robert Romano “If success depends on convincing senators in the Republican cloakroom, it will not work because far too many are afraid of the electoral consequences.” That was Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Tex.) take on a Senate Republican push to defund the health care law before it […]

By Robert Romano “As we know all too well, national security is a real and present danger, and it is something that we have to take quite seriously.” Maybe it was a Freudian slip. But to be fair to Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), who on July 24 was speaking against a proposed amendment to the 2014 Defense Appropriations Act offered by Rep. Justin […]

If I were trying to make the case that women should hold a higher percentage of construction jobs, I probably wouldn’t use a picture of a woman pushing a 1/3 full gardening wheelbarrow to make the point.  Hey Labor bloggers – with one image you […]

By Robert Romano “I love all these esoteric debates that people are getting in… I want them [including Senator Rand Paul] to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation.” That was New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie’s challenge to anyone daring to question the 9/11 national security consensus among politicians in favor of the National Security […]

By Rick Manning Millionaire taxes don’t work.  State or local taxes aimed at the wealthy merely drive a jurisdiction’s tax base away. The latest example of someone who is successful who would be better off living elsewhere is professional golfer Phil Mickelson. Mickelson made a dream come […]

By Robert Romano Since the Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act because there was no longer evidence of voter suppression of minorities in affected states based on U.S. Census data, the political left in the U.S. has been rumbling for another way […]