By Rick Manning Should the federal government encourage pension funds and other federally sanctioned retirement vehicles to engage in politically correct, socially conscious investing? The answer is yes according to a guidance document recently released by the U.S. Department of Labor which oversees all private employer pension […]

By Richard Manning A strange thing happened upon examining an obscure report issued by the federal government’s Office of Personnel Management on how much money and personnel hours are spent conducting labor union business by taxpayer funded employees. It was discovered that the National Labor Relations Board, an agency whose reason for being is to ensure that […]

By Rick Manning Racism in the NBA has been all the talk show rage over the past week, as people double down on their declarations of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s despicable, private and illegally recorded rants. However, did you know that the National Basketball Association’s […]

By Robert Romano Alabama auto parts manufacturers only make up 2.9 percent of firms — 121 out of 4,103 nationwide according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Yet, they make up more than 9 percent of inspections of such manufacturers by the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) in 2014 as of April 10, data from the agency shows. […]

Americans for Limited Government President Nathan Mehrens today issued the following statement in response to  allegations by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 12 that the Obama-run Department of Labor has engaged in racial discrimination  in their internal promotion policies dating back to 2009: “It is the ultimate irony that Labor Secretary Thomas Perez is facing a union crisis at the Department he leads that […]

By Rick Manning and Tom Toth   On December 3, Representatives John Kline (MN-2) and Dave Camp (MI-4) issued a  letter  to Department of Labor Secretary Thomas Perez demanding information regarding how the Department of Labor utilizes and reviews information given for use by the Census Bureau for use in […]

By Robert Romano With Senate Republicans filibustering the nominations of Patricia Ann Millett to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and Rep. Mel Watt (D-N.C.) to be the new head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Senate Democrats are once again threatening to eliminate the filibuster for […]

By Rick Manning The past couple of weeks in Washington, D.C. have created a buzz around the question of whether Senate Republican Leader has lost control over the Republican Conference.  McConnell’s problems crystallized when Senator John McCain was joined by a few other Senators to cut a […]

By Willie Deutsch Over the past two weeks, Republican leadership in the House and Senate drastically increased conservative distrust of Republican compromises.  In the House of Representatives, the compromise version of the Agriculture Bill proved to be worse than the original, and the Senate filibuster […]

By Willie Deutsch U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has vowed to proceed with a civil rights inquiry against George Zimmerman .  With all the things on Holder’s plate, one has to wonder how he has the time for it. Recently, Holder celebrated the one year anniversary of being held in contempt of congress by the House […]