By Rick Manning — Americans for Limited Government led the charge against the confirmation of Barack Obama’s appointee to the ambassadorship of El Salvador, Mari Del Carmen Aponte until August of 2010, when Obama gave her a recess appointment to serve until Congress went out of session in 2011. […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox,  click here ! Good Wednesday morning, Here are the  Must Reads according to  Adam Bitely : Obama vs. Capitalism Stossel: Ten years to Greece A lesson in fairness for Obama Cartoon: You stink! Are we standing on the edge of the climate change “abyss”? Tax rates, inequality and the 1% Obama’s indefinite detention powers Have conservatives dropped their love for the constitution? Obama’s idea of transparency: A financial czar shielded by the Fed China’s economic model is superior, if you think that U.S. living standards should drop by 80% Obama isn’t powerless Dodd-Frank law: Regulations won’t fix what’s wrong Top 11 Big Government Busts of 2011: #11

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By Rebecca DiFede — This weekend, after months of “occupying” McPherson Square with little to no trouble, 31 occupiers were arrested by D.C. police officers and escorted off the premise. It may be surprising that this is the first arrest since the inception of the […]

By Bill Wilson — Twenty-seven years before a massive Japanese carrier task force set sail from Hitokappu Bay in Iturup to attack the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor, a single Japanese ship steamed southeast into Chuuk (then called “Truk”), a tiny island with a deep lagoon […]

NRD Editor’s Note: Please see the below action alert from Eagle Forum and take action now! “We easily advanced from kerosene lamps to Edison’s light bulbs, from horse and carriage to automobiles, and from cassettes to CDs and DVDs, without any laws to mandate those […]

The Senate shot down a cloture motion on Obama nominee Caitlin Halligan to serve on the D.C. Circuit Court. Senate Republicans have done the right thing by blocking a radical, unqualified ideologue, Caitlin Halligan, from taking a seat on the federal bench.  Along with Goodwin Liu, Halligan’s nomination marked a move by the Obama White House to […]

By Frank McCaffrey — As we head into the new year, we look back at the many examples of government failure in America during 2011. Americans for Limited Government has identified some of the biggest disasters brought about by the Obama Administration in its third […]

By Rebekah Rast — Some jobs are dustier than others. Rural American jobs like tilling fields, herding cattle, driving along dirt roads or extracting important resources from the land are critical American jobs that sometimes kick up a little more dust than others.  But as […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox,  click here ! Good Tuesday morning, Here are the  Must Reads according to  Adam Bitely : How is Newt the anti-Romney? Heartbreak awaits Gingrich supporters Are Newt and Romney the best the GOP can do? Before Newt can win, he’ll have to beat himself Gingrich stumbles big time on Beck… Hurtling over a fiscal cliff Now it’s ‘Obama the irrelevant’ Detroit needs a regime change Obama’s top 10 constitutional violations Ben Bernanke and his friends