By Frank McCaffrey — West Virginia is a mining state. Yet, it is training young people in construction. We look at the Southern Appalachian Labor School or SALS. Find out if it makes sense in a down economy.

By Paul Driessen — The Obama Administration’s anti-hydrocarbon ideology and “renewable” energy mythology continues to subsidize crony capitalists and the politicians they help keep in office – on the backs of American taxpayers, ratepayers and motorists. The latest chapter in the sorry ethanol saga is […]

By Ryan Houck — If I wanted America to fail … To follow, not lead; to suffer, not prosper; to despair, not dream — I’d start with energy. I’d cut off America’s supply of cheap, abundant energy.  Of course, I couldn’t take it by force.  […]

ORIGINAL POST UPDATED on April 24, 9:00 AM Eastern: By Adam Bitely — In the past 4 years, social media outlets such as Twitter and Facebook have become a dominant force for spreading messages and rallying causes. Through Facebook and Twitter, hundreds of millions of […]

April 23, 2012, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson issued the following statement reacting to the latest Social Security and Medicare Trustees Report : “It is no surprise that particularly the Social Security program has lost three years off the life of its trust fund in a single year. Obama and Congress foolishly […]

April 23, 2012, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson issued the following statement urging Senate adoption of S.J. Res. 36 proposed by Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) that would rescind a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rulemaking requiring unionization elections occur within seven to ten days of being filed: […]

As originally published at Investor’s Business Daily on April 20. By Bill Wilson — Like the day Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese, Dec. 7, 2009, might too be recalled by history as a day that shall live in infamy. That was the day Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson issued the carbon endangerment finding, a […]

By Adam Bitely — When Obama campaigned for the presidency in 2008, he ran on the now worn promise of “Hope and Change.” After almost four years of being President, Obama is now telling us that the “Change” part of that promise has and is […]

By Kevin Mooney — Come and join the union! You will be guaranteed a safe, flush retirement fund for life. This has been the standard pitch from organized labor to workers who could earn more in the private sector. But government figures show that union […]

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, a high profile Republican Governor who is in the running for the GOP’s Veep nomination, is facing what could be the biggest test for his political future– which is how he will act on a Voter ID law that is before him : In its current form, the bill requires anyone who forgets to bring proper […]