On: 07/26/2010 07:45:15 In: Conservative Movement By David Bozeman Kathleen Parker, who inexplicably passes for conservative, spent much of a recent column praising Sarah Palin’s ability to market herself. While not exactly lauding Mama Grizzly on substance, Parker, perhaps with tongue slightly in cheek, acknowledged Palin’s knack […]

On: 07/18/2010 20:45:00 In: Conservative Movement By Rick Manning Remember, the pre-Speaker Newt Gingrich, who fought to create wedge issues ranging from Jim Wright’s questionable book deals to voter anger over taxes? Remember, the pre-Speaker Gingrich, Newt, who drove the House minority leadership nuts because he would always seemingly […]

On: 07/13/2010 21:05:31 In: Economy   ALG Editor’s Note: In the following featured column from the Washington Examiner , Michael Barone takes note of the mattress economy that appears to have taken hold in the U.S., thanks in no small part to the Obama Administration: Obama economy sends Americans to their mattresses By Michael Barone […]

On: 07/07/2010 20:57:44 In: Taxes By Robert Romano Last week, the removal of a $19 billion bank tax from Senator Chris Dodd and Representative Barney Frank’s financial takeover conference legislation at the demand of Massachusetts Republican Senator Scott Brown received much fanfare in media outlets. “US lawmakers scrap […]

On: 07/29/2010 09:40:43 In: Barack Obama ALG Editor’s Note: In the following featured video by Americans for Limited Government’s Andrius Vaitekunas , the ideological polar opposites, Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama, square off on the issue of government-run health care:  

On: 07/26/2010 07:44:38 In: Economy By Robert Romano $4.242 trillion. That’s how much debt has been added since Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid took control of Congress and passed their first budget. That’s a 32 percent increase to the national debt in less than three years, which now […]

On: 07/18/2010 20:44:25 In: Economy By Bill Wilson This week there were cheers heard throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. Governor Bob McDonnell jubilantly proclaimed that the state had achieved a budget surplus. There’s only one little problem. It is not true. Simply put, the surplus announcement is nothing […]

On: 07/12/2010 20:54:43 In: Appointments A Tale of Two Kagan’s By Robert Romano Before the Supreme Court, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, on behalf of the Obama Administration, in the recent Citizens United decision that lifted restrictions on independent expenditures on electioneering political speech, argued that political pamphleteering and […]

On: 07/06/2010 22:10:28 In: Appointments By Bill Wilson “Senator Coburn, um…” That was all Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan could muster in response to what should have been a simple question from Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn. He was asking of Kagan, “Do we have the power to tell […]

On: 07/29/2010 09:36:32 In: Conservative Movement By Adam Bitely In an election year, it is far too common for political parties and certain loyal followers to chastise those that align along similar ideological lines when they criticize policy positions of candidates and elected officials that contradict their […]