By Rebekah Rast – Much has changed in two years. Two years ago, a Democratic Congress was hailing a new Democratic President. The agenda was set. There was a promise of change and hope for the country. How quickly things changed. After passing a highly […]

On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee pushed back consideration of the nomination of Judge Robert Chatigny for a lifetime appointment to fill the Second Circuit Court of Appeals seat vacated when Sonia Sotomayor was elevated to the Supreme Court, delaying the vote indefinitely. Chatigny has […]

They had better mean it. The House Republican Conference has unveiled its “Pledge to America ,” a broad set of principles by which a new Republican majority would govern by. Included are promises to “roll back government spending to pre-stimulus, pre-bailout levels,” and to “establish strict budget caps to limit federal spending from this […]

When Zach Space (D-OH) ran for Congress to fill the seat of disgraced former Congressman Bob Ney, he pledged to not accept campaign donations from lobbyists. It looks like Space is having a hard time living up to that pledge. From the Cleaveland Plain Dealer : After experiencing  lapses […]

The Democrats have become nothing but a sideshow. Stephen Colbert will be testifying in Congress on Friday in front of the House Immigration subcommittee according to The Daily Caller . So before he testifies on Friday, lets take a moment to look at how this could play out: […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Wednesday Morning, Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson ’s quote of the day in reference to Obama’s radical judge nominees : “Barack Obama’s radical nominees for the federal bench have been so bad that not even Senate Democrats have dared […]

By David Bozeman – Do tax cuts really create jobs? According to columnist Froma Harrop, not necessarily. Democrats, of course, find themselves in a tight spot — by not extending the Bush tax cuts, they are effectively raising taxes. But most would rather chew on […]

“There are no American soldiers in Baghdad,” Iraq’s Information Minister famously proclaimed on then Iraqi state-run media, even as U.S. forces were descending into the capital city after Operation Iraqi Freedom began in March 2003. It was one of the last broadcasts of a dying […]

By Kevin Mooney — Somehow average Americans who pine for constitutional limited government and the ideals of the founding period are considered extreme and unhinged. Meanwhile, White House officials and career legislators who expand the national debt and subjugate free enterprise are viewed as mainstream. […]