By Kevin Mooney — Richard Mourdock, the man who defeated long-time Senator Richard Lugar in Indiana’s Republican primary with 60 percent of the vote, is opposed to big government at home, and big government abroad. During a conference call organized by Americans for Limited Government (ALG) last week, Mourdock made it clear that he would safeguard American sovereignty and independence. [...]

By Bill Wilson — The entrenched establishment in Europe that unceremoniously deposed Greek and Italian prime ministers George Papandreou and Sylvio Berlusconi in 2011, installing pro-bank bailout Eurocrats in their place, was dealt a critical defeat in Greek parliamentary elections on May 6. Neither of the two pro-bailout parties, the conservative New Democracy or the Socialists, gained enough seats to [...]

By John Vinci — Apparently $3.4 billion isn’t enough. It now seems that the Obama Administration is asking for a total of $7.25 billion dollars to fund loan grants in its Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) Program. The same Administration that gave us Solyndra, had told us last year to expect a CO-OP loan default rate of 30 percent [...]

By Rebekah Rast — The wind energy industry got some more hot air knocked out of it recently. Discovery News reports, “wind farms actually warm up the surface of the land underneath them during the night, a phenomenon that could put a damper on efforts to expand wind energy as a green energy solution. Aside from killing a half-million birds [...]

The EPA official, Al Armendariz, who said he would “crucify” oil and gas companies to send a message, has resigned. According to the Washington Times: Embattled Environmental Protection Agency official Al Armendariz, under fire for 2010 comments bragging that he would “crucify” oil and gas companies in order to send a message to the industry, has resigned. “While I feel [...]

By Kevin Mooney — Take a look at the press releases from progressive organizations that deny voter fraud is a serious problem and the organization that appears to be out in front these days is the George Soros funded Advancement Project. The group, founded in 1999 by civil rights attorneys, describes itself as “a policy, communications and legal action group [...]

By Robert Romano — “This is Big Brother on steroids.” That is how Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, described an amendment offered by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee to the “Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act” (CISPA). The amendment would have authorized the Secretary of Homeland Security “to acquire, intercept, retain, use, and disclose [...]

By Howard Rich — Having failed earlier this year to foist an Orwellian kill switch on Internet free speech, Congress is now peddling a kinder, gentler piece of “cybersecurity legislation.” However, Washington’s latest attempt to play Big Brother on the Internet poses an equally clear and present danger to our fundamental liberties. With the furor over the Stop Online Piracy [...]

By Kevin Mooney — Louisiana could become part of a larger national effort later when state lawmakers take up payroll protection proposals expected to come up in the current session that would prohibit unions from automatically deducting worker dues for political purposes. The proposals figure into a larger national movement built around state initiatives that would prevent taxpayer dollars from [...]

By Bill Wilson — On Thursday or Friday, the House of Representatives will be voting on new legislation, the “Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act” (CISPA). The ostensible purpose of the bill is to streamline the sharing of intelligence on cyber threats from the U.S. national security apparatus to Internet Service Providers and other web companies to protect the nation’s [...]