To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Tuesday morning, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : The CBO’s fuzzy math GOP leaders must play hardball on debt ceiling The last thing Americans need is a tax hike The debt ceiling walks the red carpet Congress should rein in bureaucracy, not abandon oversight Sowell: The Constitution and your freedom McDonald’s as the paradigm of progress The New Jersey miracle shows us the way forward Could Republicans nominate a free market populist? The unseen effects of stimulus It’s time to ax federal jobs program Hugo Chavez and his dictatorship are in critical condition An open letter to the President of UAW Local 599

From all available reports, Hugo Chavez is in critical condition in a hospital in Cuba. The Venezuelan communist dictator was taken to Cuba several weeks ago for an emergency surgery regarding pelvic swelling, which has led many to speculate that he is dealing with prostate cancer. In the irony of ironies, […]

By Bill Wilson – On July 22, the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) issued its latest long-term projections on the growth of the national debt .  Astonishingly, as bad as the numbers issued by the CBO were, the debt crisis the nation faces is even worse than we are being told. The CBO analysis does not take into account the full $14.344 trillion national debt , nor does it reflect the $430 billion in gross interest payments we are paying every year . […]

By Frank McCaffrey – For the second time, we put “The Team Obama Spotlight” on Vice President Joe Biden. He was enlisted by Team Obama to talk about the budget with a group, some of whom he drove away. ALG’s Don Todd has turned the spotlight on […]

By Rick Manning – The past six months have seen public employee unions protesting around the nation attempting to resist attempts by elected representatives to rein in the massive overspending of their predecessors. Scenes from Wisconsin to Indiana to even California have found those who have been hired by taxpayers to […]

By Bill Wilson – It is time for congressional Republican leaders, including House Speaker John Boehner, to play hardball on the debt ceiling. The only way House Republicans’ leverage on the debt ceiling will work is if they’re willing to not increase the debt ceiling. Because, if […]

By Robert Romano – The Obama Administration must be laboring under the delusion that the $14.3 trillion debt can somehow be paid for with tax increases. It cannot. And it would a foolish gambit to try. That is why House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Senate Minority […]

By Kevin Mooney – Have you or your business been on the receiving end of mistreatment from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)? If so, you could have a job in a new Herman Cain Administration . The presidential candidate said in an interview that he would like to […]

Please tune back here for the live webcast tonight about the Cut, Cap, and Balance Pledge beginning at 8 PM eastern. Until then, check out the info below– and you can also sign the pledge by clicking here . The webcast will feature: Tony Perkins, President, FRC Action Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) Sen. Orrin Hatch […]

Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today urged the Senate to roll back a $100 billion expansion of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that was enacted in 2009. “It is simply outrageous that the world’s largest debtor, the United States, is bailing out creditors in Europe […]