By Rick Manning – $220 a barrel oil? That’s what the headlines on MSN blared , with oil industry predicting that the price for a barrel of oil could top the $200 a barrel mark if exports from Libya and Algeria are cut off due to civil unrest in those countries. […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Thursday Morning, Here are your morning Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : Saving our nation from debt: An open letter from Rep. Jim Jordan Budgeting for dummies Lawless legislators flee rather than balance budgets How public employees and taxpayers were scammed by politicians United Federation of Teachers spends millions on dinners, parties, parking, coffee as thousands of teachers face layoffs Obama’s badger state blues Democrats just don’t understand the new populism The taxpayer’s right to bargain for much more Barone: Who benefits from government unions? Goldberg: Public unions must go GOP floats $2 billion a week in cuts… Stossel: Why does government suppress information? Russ Roberts: The alternative to unions Obama Lawyers Could Open the Way for “Mini-Unions” with Ruling in Health Care Case Uncommon knowledge: Radical in chief Transparency: Lobbyists say that White House sends meetings off-site to hide them…

By Deborah Young – Union teachers in Wisconsin over the past week are speaking out in protest on the possible loss of their right to collective bargaining. For any public union member and union to speak as if the majority of our population, the taxpayers, […]

By Robert Romano – By now, it is well known that 14 Wisconsin State Senators have fled their state to avoid a vote on Governor Scott Walker’s proposal close a $3.6 billion budget gap by requiring that state employees contribute to their own pension and health care […]

By Howard Rich – President Obama has said that the cuts included in his fiscal 2012 budget will force “tough choices and sacrifices.” Meanwhile, House Speaker John Boehner invoked a former tax-hiking president in defending his chamber’s proposed budget reductions. “When we say we are […]

Below is a special letter from RSC Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan on our nation’s debt: To My Fellow Americans, Uncle Sam is spending you into the poorhouse. Taxes, inflation, unemployment, interest rates – all could skyrocket if Washington keeps spending trillions of dollars it doesn’t have. Unless we begin […]

An author, journalist, and social anthropologist (PhD Harvard), Stanley Kurtz is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and a contributing editor to National Review Online. His latest book is Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism. “President Obama […]

By Rick Manning – The first stage in the battle to rein in government spending before our nation drowns in red ink is being fought, or shall I say being fled from, in the states of Wisconsin and Indiana. It is being reported that House Democrats in […]

At a recent union rally in Annapolis, ALG may well have come across a 1970s professional wrestling manager. You be the judge…

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Wednesday Morning, Here are your morning Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : How the left thinks Timid cuts, padded revenues won’t pull us from the brink In Wisconsin, a sense of entitlement imperils nation Mitch Daniels on Indiana right-to-work law: “This isn’t the right time” … Cartoon of the day, “The Wisconsin Teacher’s Unions Act Like Third Graders…” Government unions have not benefited the public Environmentalist fraud and manslaughter Obama’s agenda faces governor’s revolt ObamaCare is already damaging Health Care Pretending fails to hide bankruptcy American political partisanship The real threat to democracy in Wisconsin The status quo president Civil societies cannot be built–they must emerge Government employee unions need to get out of politics Why Do We Take These People Seriously?; Exhibit #34,577 Dem Congressman tells unions that they “need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody” Observation on the U.S. trade deficit