By Adam Bitely — The war on profit and success waged by Big Labor has claimed their latest victim: Hostess. The snack food king announced on Friday that they would immediately cease all production operations at their bakeries and would lay off their more than […]

As frequent visitors of this site know, we have been focused like a hawk on Michigan’s Proposal 4- the SEIU’s heavy-handed attempt to unionize all home caregivers in the state of Michigan, often parents of adult children with disabilities. In one overwhelmingly positive election result, the SEIU’s Proposal 4 has been defeated, and by a wide […]

By Bill Wilson — “[T]he only thing that’s worse than cutting national defense is not having any scheduled cuts at all take place.” That’s how Rep. Jim  Jordan, chairman of the House Republican Study Committee, put it recently, in defense of $109 billion of reductions to budget […]

By Kevin Mooney — With President Obama back in the White House next year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to roll out a new regulation to control drilling techniques used to access natural gas. Even so, the expected surge in U.S. oil production […]

NRD Editor’s Note: Americans for Limited Government sent 26 letters to Republican governors either urging them not to implement, or praising for not implementing state exchanges in the health care law. By Bill Wilson — It is incredible that the Republican Governors Association is struggling trying to figure out what to do about Obamacare’s provision that states form a health insurance exchange .  If a majority of Republican governors simply followed Texas Gov. Rick […]

Washington Representative Cathy McMorris-Rodgers was elected to assume the number four position in the House of Representatives today. Americans for Limited Government has worked closely with McMorris-Rodgers on her efforts to keep taxpayer dollars from being spent to fund the International Monetary Fund bailouts of […]

By Kevon Martis — The Michigan Energy-Michigan Jobs (MEMJ) Proposal 3 — its 25 by 25 gambit — would have forced Michigan taxpayers and ratepayers to produce 25 percent of the Wolverine State’s electricity via expensive, unreliable, parasitic wind and solar projects by 2025. The […]

By Bill Wilson — Those governors that are today considering whether or not to implement a state-run health insurance exchange under the new health care law may hold the fate of Obamacare in their hands. Under the law, state exchanges would be responsible for dispersing some $800 […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared at Investor’s Business Daily . By Howard Rich — In Barack Obama’s first term the U.S. labor force shrank to a 30-year low. Job growth lagged behind population growth as millions gave up their search for gainful employment. Income levels receded, […]

Great news from Alabama Governor Robert Bentley : “I am not going to set up a state-based exchange that will create a tax burden of up to $50 million on the people of Alabama.  As governor, I cannot support adding such a tax burden onto our citizens,” Governor Bentley […]