By Robert Romano So how deep does the National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance program exposed by Edward Snowden really go? Are they downloading every email and phone call out there? Just communications to and from foreign targets? The American people are rightly wondering just how far this […]

By Howard Rich As originally published at Investors.com. After years of ignoring increasingly dire warnings, America is now facing a debilitating disability crisis — one draining tax dollars (and workers) from our economy. Yet rather than reforming our broken entitlement programs, policymakers continue turning a blind eye to the root […]

By Robert Romano Let us take Edward Snowden at his word. For a moment, assume he disclosed publicly the National Security Agency’s (NSA) broad, sweeping surveillance of all telephone, Internet, and email communications everywhere — not to hurt people or undermine security but to stop an unconstitutionally […]

By Robert Romano Did Obama admit that the National Security Agency (NSA) is recording everything? Here was the President’s charitable explanation at a June 7 press conference of recent disclosures that the agency is collecting phone records and Internet communications on millions of Americans and non-Americans alike. “What the intelligence community is doing is looking at phone numbers and […]

By Willie Deutsch In what  looks eerily similar to  the  Wisconsin protests of 2011 , union members and the NAACP are holding weekly protests at the North Carolina capitol against the conservative policies of the Republican legislature. While the Wisconsin protests were specifically against the repeal of collective bargaining for certain public sector […]

By Marta H. Mossburg News reports from the past month reveal a chasm between Americans’ perception of their freedom and their actual freedom. To those who thought the rule of law still protected them, the IRS targeting conservative groups for special scrutiny and Justice Department […]

By Robert Romano Such much for cutting federal spending. House Chairman of the Budget Committee Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) joined with 35 House Republicans along with every Democrat who voted in defeating an amendment to an appropriations bill that would have repealed the 82-year old Davis-Bacon prevailing wages mandate for federal contractors. The result? Less bang for the […]

By Willie Deutsch One of the things that Americans for Limited Government (ALG) does on an ongoing basis is Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to departments of the Obama administration.  This is tedious, boring, and under the radar work, but it is necessary to […]

By Bill Wilson It is no mystery that the U.S. is a consumer-based economy. Approximately 71 percent of the $16 trillion Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is personal consumption. So, when consumption expenditures decline — as they did in April — by $20.5 billion, or 0.2 percent as […]

By Willie Deutsch In August of 2009 the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agreed to a labor contract with the National Treasury Employees Union .  But Article 4 “Protections Against Prohibited Personnel Practices” contains sections that seem to indicate that in targeting organizations applying for tax-exempt status, IRS agents were required to break the terms of […]