By Frank McCaffrey – The SEIU claims that higher taxes will help unemployment somehow and now the SEIU is taking it out on a wireless phone store. Sounds a little off target. ALG’s Brad Tidwell tries to make sense of it…and he has to try […]

By David Bozeman – Too often, presidential primaries resemble American Idol auditions and bear about as much ideological substance. How alarming that our cherished liberties can rest on the whims of focus groups and the same Madison Avenue machinations used to sell toothpaste. Politics regularly […]

By Robert Romano – The sovereign debt funding crisis ravaging Europe is a window into America’s future, should Congress fail to find a way to rein in the $14.3 trillion national debt this decade. The only difference is there will not be anybody to bail us out. […]

By Howard Rich – With deteriorating economic conditions putting a damper on his poll numbers and jeopardizing his 2012 re-election prospects, Barack Obama now portrays himself as a free-market leader for a change. Yet while he poses for pictures with CEOs and unveils a private-sector […]

The Senate voted 73-27 today, killing a major tax break that benefits the ethanol industry. The bipartisan group of lawmakers that opposed the incentive called the tax break needless. Many on the right and left opposed the measure for various reasons, but we opposed the […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Thursday morning, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : Breaking: Weiner says he will resign America’s job creators face uphill battle The EPA’s fantasy solution to unemployment Obama blames high unemployment on ATM’s… Time to listen to Ron Paul and audit the Fed Unemployment and economic recovery The time is now to kick the stimulus habit Union demands in collective bargaining agreements should be open to taxpayer scrutiny UFCW attacks Walmart after the company helps inner city children Unfair labor practices Why 70% tax rates won’t work NLRB off the wall on Facebook regulation Republicans vs. the environment He who lives by legislation… The real budget problem

Embattled Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY) has told friends that he will resign from Congress, according to the New York Times . As the NYT reported: Representative Anthony D. Weiner has told friends that he plans to resign his seat after coming under growing pressure from his Democratic colleagues to leave the House […]

By Rebekah Rast – President Obama recently commented , “I am concerned about the fact that the recovery that we’re on is not producing jobs as fast as I want it to happen.” His promise, made in 2009, that if Congress passed the “stimulus” package unemployment would not rise above 8 percent , has […]

By Bill Wilson – Everyone tends to pull a punch now and again, even here at Americans for Limited Government.  Things go unsaid, but sometimes they must be said.  Today is one of those days. The beauty of a recent piece by Euro Pacific Capital CEO Peter Schiff, “End Game,” is that it pulls no punches.  In it, Schiff […]

Further exposing the never ending hatred that Big Labor has for Walmart, here is this gem out of New York City where the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Union Local 1500 is attacking Walmart for making a $5 million donation to a New York City program that helps city children get summer jobs. The program that Walmart had donated the money to was severely underfunded, and Mayor Michael […]