To receive the Must Reads in your inbox,  click here ! Good Friday morning, Here are the  Must Reads according to  Adam Bitely : Unemployment rate no longer valid economic indicator America’s ‘shadow deficit’ looms larger than $15 trillion Neither Gingrich or Romney favor limited government Washington Examiner: Tea Party should target old bulls in House GOP The Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act passes the House 3 inconvenient truths for Occupy Wall Street The White House needs to come clean on Elena Kagan and ObamaCare Why does Big Labor love the Chinese economic model? Lessons in government arrogance Remy’s incandescent light bulb song

By Adam Bitely — If you thought 2012 would bring change to government, think of it more as rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. The two leading candidates at the moment on the right are not champions of limited government. Mitt Romney is well […]

By David Bozeman — One of the most annoying axioms in politics is that of the smart liberal/dumb conservative.  Look for the media to ramp it up in the coming months, though the notion is so absurd it would be laughable were it not for […]

By Bill Wilson — Obama’s Labor Department report on the unemployment rate no longer passes the smell test as an accurate indicator of economic activity.  The fact that the rate dropped almost half a percentage point to 8.6 in spite of the fact that the economy created […]

The Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act passed the House yesterday, 235-188. As Bill Wilson , President of Americans for Limited Government said about the bill, “The House is to be praised for voting on legislation that will kill the NLRB’s attempt to institute snap elections on behalf […]

By Rick Manning — The CEO of General Motors announced that the electric battery for Chevy Volt may need to be redesigned due to fire hazards that have been discovered in crash tests. The troubled vehicle which Obama test drove in a green energy promotional gimmick in […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox,  click here ! Good Thursday morning, Here are the  Must Reads according to  Adam Bitely : Creating debt, not wealth Eric Holder should resign or be fired How the NLRB helped Unions shake down Boeing Is the Fed pursuing our interest or banks’ interest? Back to Bush’s big-government conservatism Newt’s GingrichCare mandate George Will: The unintended consequences of racial preferences Global warming alarmism cooling With Barney leaving, ethically challenged Maxine Waters waits in the wings Barney Frank’s impact Occupy D.C. now stands for Occupy Drug City

By Rebecca DiFede — Having visited McPherson Square (the location of the Occupy D.C. movement) during its beginning stages , I returned to scope out how it had grown and changed, if at all. And boy, was I in for a surprise. The quaint, controlled scene that I had enjoyed then was no more; the twenty or so scattered tents […]

By Bill Wilson — Markets were awash with irrational exuberance on Nov. 30 upon an announcement by the Federal Reserve and other central banks to lower interest rates for “temporary U.S. dollar liquidity swap arrangements”.  Particularly, this will lower the cost of dollars in Europe, which is thought will help with any potential liquidity shortfalls there. Whether that will work or not […]

By Bill Wilson — Eric Holder’s Nixonian levels of paranoia penetrating the upper reaches of the Justice Department notwithstanding, there is indeed a growing chorus of elected officials calling for the Attorney General to step down — and with good cause. One Border Patrol agent and at least 300 Mexicans are dead because of the Justice Department’s operation to funnel guns […]