As originally published at TheHill.com. By Rick Manning Nothing is more infuriating than hearing a politician who has failed to act in six months on a single piece of legislation to end a crisis complaining about someone who has strenuously worked to produce a solution to the problem. Harry Reid, also known […]

By Dennis T. Avery The last woods bison in the United States was apparently shot by a hunter in West Virginia around 1835. For many decades, the woods bison was presumed extinct — until an airplane spotted an isolated herd in the muskeg swamps north […]

Lisa Jackson, the head of the EPA, will resign her post ending a 4-year stint of creating burdensome regulations. Jackson is stepping down in the wake of a secret email account that she used and kept secret from government oversight. Jackson will step down after the State of the Union address in […]

By David Bozeman The idea that the American left would delight in the political demise of conservative white males certainly comes as a shock to no one.  That theme has animated talk radio since the election.  And let’s give the Democrats their due — they […]

By Paul Driessen — An oil and natural gas boom is underway in the United States, born of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing , or “fracking.” It has created tens of thousands of well-paying jobs directly, and hundreds of thousands more in hundreds of businesses that supply […]

By Howard Rich There are plenty of reasons why America is teetering on the brink of fiscal collapse – unsustainable entitlement costs, unprecedented welfare expansion and loose monetary policy from the Fed (to name just a few) – but another reason is the shameful exploitation […]

By Rick Manning — America is witnessing a real-time modern day Greek tragedy worthy of Sophocles or any of the great Greek dramatists. The storyline:  a man seeks power his entire life and when he finally attains it, he becomes unwilling to use it and dwindles into […]

By David Bozeman — The Hall of Fame includes Big Oil, Big Pharmaceuticals, big, sugary soft drinks, Wal-Mart, McDonald’s, Nabisco (makers of the artery-clogging Oreos), Hostess and far too many other institutions and products to name here.  The latest inductee is “Papa” John Schnatter, the […]

Dec. 20, 2012, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today issued the following statement in response to the rejection by the House Rules Committee of the Jordan-Scalise-Mulvaney alternative to the Plan B tax increase: “We are disappointed that the House Rules Committee will not be […]

Dec. 20, 2012, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today issued the following statement urging the House of Representatives to support an amendment to the Speaker’s Plan B bill:  “Republicans must not fall into the trap of increasing taxes and doing nothing to cut spending. […]