By Howard Rich — The Separatist Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock in November 1620 began their new settlement utilizing overtly communist economic principles.  In addition to common ownership of the land, the Pilgrims farmed corn on a communal plot and divided their harvest evenly […]

By Robert Romano — Over the next ten years, the working age population in the U.S. will grow by about 21 million people. In addition, there are currently 22 million people who cannot fine full-time work in the U.S. economy, plus another 5 million that have given […]

By Rebekah Rast — California is once again at the top. Under the federal government’s new measurement of poverty, California is in last place — or at the top of the state rankings with a 23.5 percent poverty rate. Meaning almost a fourth of its […]

By Rick Manning — The national health care law jumped back into the headlines last week as a deadline for states to decide whether to establish individual state health care exchanges approached and then was extended by the Obama Administration to December 14.  The delay was requested […]

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 […]