By Rick Manning – The failure of Harry Reid’s pork laden $1.27 trillion Omnibus bill is the first step in the long battle to get the federal budget under control. Round two occurs this upcoming week as the Congress tries to agree on a new short term […]

By Rebekah Rast – You’ve heard the horror stories: pat-downs that err on the side of groping, body scanners that allow another to see you — all of you, even of children and babies being searched and scanned. But remember, as the government assures us, […]

By Bill Wilson – A generation ago, William Rusher wrote in The Making of the New Majority Party, that liberals inside the GOP, “have always been large enough to compel a certain amount of compromise or adjustment in their direction.” The record of conservative failure is really […]

It’s scary enough to watch the FCC discuss regulating the internet, but now the United Nations has entered the arena. While Big Government politicians worldwide mull the idea of regulating the last free space for human interaction (outside of outer space itself), the United Nations […]

By Frank McCaffrey – Americans For Limited Government spoke with Montana Congressman Dennis Rehberg (R-MT) on the estate tax. Rehberg explains how this is bad environmentally and gives his personal experience with the tax.

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Friday Morning, Here are your morning Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : 60 or 45 days, or fight Reid pulled earmark packed ominous bill from Senate floor Coercion is not commerce The rhetoric huckster Who had the best and worst 2010? Cartoon of the day, “The Lamest Duck” Did the GOP kick the spending dope? Senate votes 81-19 to pass Tax deal Washington’s crab-in-the-bucket syndrome The Tea Party takedown

By Bill Wilson – If Congress does not adopt a continuing resolution of some sort by midnight, December 18th, non-essential services of the government will shut down. As a result, Harry Reid attempted to ram a 1924-page, $1.27 trillion omnibus spending bill through Congress before anyone had […]

By William Warren – Today’s cartoon bashes the current Lame Duck congress, commenting on how they have the lowest approval rating in the history of polling.

By Adam Bitely – While campaigning for the GOP nomination for President in 2007, Mike Huckabee said that “[w]e have a responsibility to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, to conserve energy, to find alternative forms of energy that are renewable and sustainable and environmentally friendly.” Huckabee continued […]

By Frank McCaffrey – The Omnibus Bill that is being introduced in congress is loaded with earmarks that add up to over one trillion dollars in spending.