By Rick Manning As originally published at TheHill.com. I hate it when timelines don’t work. Here is the latest timeline on the IRS conservative targeting scandal that initially supplanted the Benghazi scandal and has since been pushed from the news by the NSA-spying-on-all-of-us scandal. On April 24, the White House chief counsel […]

By Marta H. Mossburg Former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton said recently at a private event in Toronto that electing a woman president would send “exactly the right historical signal to girls, women as well as boys and men.” What “signal” is she talking about […]

By Nathan Mehrens Penny Pritzker, the Hyatt Hotel heiress who has been one of the primary major funders for President Obama over the course of his political career was confirmed by the Senate in a 97-1 vote.  The lone dissenter was that radical arch-conservative, Bernie […]

By David Bozeman One of my favorite July 4th traditions is penning a birthday tribute to Calvin Coolidge.  I typically start with a biographical sketch, continue with some of Silent Cal’s wittiest and most insightful quotations and conclude with a lament that leaders of such […]

By Robert Romano There’s a saying that where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and with new allegations surfacing that the National Security Agency (NSA) is indeed recording the content of every communication, it looks like the agency is on fire. It’s a tremendous distinction. Is the agency intercepting […]

By ALG Staff Americans for Limited Government has delivered a letter to House Speaker John Boehner signed by leaders of eight major organizations urging his “opposition to legislation that would drive up healthcare costs and line the pockets of trial lawyer by opening generic drug manufacturers to frivolous lawsuits.” The letter signed by leaders of Americans for Limited […]

Americans for Limited Government Vice President of Public Policy and Communications Rick Manning today commented on documents obtained by Judicial Watch via the Freedom of Information Act from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau revealing a massive credit file data collection program on some 5 million Americans without their consent, including credit scores, purchases, ZIP code, year of birth, and a “persistent consumer identifier making it possible to follow consumers over time”: “The discovery that the […]

Americans for Limited Government today delivered a letter to House Speaker John Boehner  signed by leaders of eight major organizations urging his “opposition to legislation that would drive up healthcare costs and line the pockets of trial lawyer by opening generic drug manufacturers to frivolous lawsuits.” The letter signed by leaders of Americans for […]

By Willie Deutsch In its June 25 in Shelby County v. Holder landmark ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated Section 4 of the longstanding Voting Rights Act of 1965 .  In the nine states affected, this is a major change in the law. In responding to the ruling, ALG President Nathan Mehrens stated , “The Voting Rights Act of […]

Americans for Limited Government President Nathan Mehrens today issued the following statement praising the success of the Voting Rights Act over the past 48 years in eradicating voting discrimination on the basis of race:  “The Supreme Court has declared victory on the Voting Rights Act. […]