By Frank McCaffrey –  This week I speak with ALG Communications Director Rick Manning about Obama’s ideas for handling high gas prices. Then hear from Louisiana Congressman John Fleming on a way to extract natural gas.

Call it the kind face of fascism. A Chicago public school is banning lunches that are brought from home . Why? Because the arrogant food-cop Principal at Little Village Academy thinks that kids and their parents can’t make “healthy” decisions on what food to consume: Principal Elsa Carmona said her intention is to protect students from their […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Monday Morning, Here are your morning Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : Boehner, Reid reach agreement to avert government shutdown Cutting spending by 1%? What a joke. The truth about spending cuts Boehner: Next fight will be about trillions, not billions Cartoon of the day, “We can’t have a government shutdown!” Obama opposes spending cuts right up to the moment he calls them historic… Wisconsin’s Dewey defeats Truman moment Big Government on the brink EPA’s days as ‘rogue agency’ are numbered On climate change, will the real Tim Pawlenty please stand up? Obama to outline deficit reduction plan, cut entitlement programs Which parts of the government should be permanently shutdown? Parties armed for mega-battle over debt limit The Imperial President at war

By Frank McCaffrey – The budget battle almost lead to a shut down of our federal government. Americans for Limited Government’s Adam Bitely says Harry Reid and his buddies have done a great job causing this chaos and it was not as bad as they […]

By Rick Manning – How is it possible to experience the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat simultaneously? Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate JoAnne Kloppenburg declared herself the victor in her big labor funded race to change the balance of power in the Wisconsin Supreme Court […]

By Bill Wilson – Iceland is free.  And it will remain so, so long as her people wish to remain autonomous of the foreign domination of her would-be masters — in this case, international bankers. On April 9, the fiercely independent people of the island-nation defeated a […]

By William Warren -Even though the government shutdown was averted, I thought today’s cartoon presented a good opportunity for humor…

At about 10:30 pm Friday evening, Boehner and Reid reached an agreement to avert a government shutdown. Here is the reaction from Americans for Limited Government (ALG) President Bill Wilson , who praised House Speaker John Boehner for getting $38.5 billion in more cuts to the 2011 […]

Should negotiations collapse between Speaker Boehner and Senate Democrats, the House is prepared to drop a bill which would keep the military funded in the event of a government shutdown. Per Dave Weigel at Slate: Because the Senate won’t pass the House’s one-week continuing resolution, which cuts $12 billion of […]

Discussions are continuing behind closed doors on Capitol Hill, but at this point, it appears that no deal will be reached before midnight tonight. The latest from Speaker Boehner is this : “We just met with all of our Members to try to bring them as up to speed as we can, […]