By Kevin Mooney — What is the real story behind Glenn Beck’s departure from Fox News, and what does it mean for conservative media going into the 2012 elections? Mainstream news outlets explain Beck’s departure by pointing to the “precipitous decline” in his program’s ratings. The New Republic, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and other liberal-leaning publications have all [...]

By Kevin Mooney – Unelected extra-constitutional czars are least partly responsible for the moratorium that continues to undermine energy production in the Gulf Coast. That’s why Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) has stepped up to block funding for administrative appointments that escape congressional scrutiny. In June, Vitter offered up an amendment that would defund existing czar positions in the Obama Administration and [...]

Efforts are underway in the House of Representatives to stop Obama from having the ability of appointing controversial nominees during a Congressional recess. The efforts are being spearheaded by Rep. Jeff Landry (R-LA). Rep. Landry, along with 77 House GOP freshman, sent a letter to House GOP leadership urging them to help him with his effort to keep the House [...]

By Kevin Mooney — Unelected federal agents who are working to regulate and control the free market economy even after the collapse of “cap and trade” legislation have been called out thanks to Americans for Limited Government (ALG) and its top researchers. The legislation now moving on Capitol Hill aimed at blocking the extra-constitutional power grabs of the Environmental Protection [...]

By Rick Manning – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is going to the mats to promote an attorney who would be the plaintiff’s bars dream, to Federal District Court for the District of Rhode Island. Reid upped the ante by filing for cloture in the Senate forcing at least 41 Senators to block his nomination through the threat of a [...]

By Kevin Mooney – Just keep voting until you get the desired results and we will change the rules along the way to help advance policy changes that could not pass through Congress. This is the message the National Mediation Board (NMB) has transmitted on behalf of Team Obama to union bosses who lost ground in the private sector. Only [...]

We have documented in this space numerous times the shortfalls of Hilda Solis and her Labor Department. Her time in the Obama Administration has been long and devastating enough. This great editorial ran in today’s Washington Examiner: Thanks to his dogged insistence on prosecuting 9/11 conspirators in civilian courts and his refusal to prosecute the Philadelphia New Black Panther case, [...]

By Kevin Mooney — Although the showdown between Gov. Scott Walker and public employees in Wisconsin has understandably seized media attention, business interests should not lose sight of administrative activity in Washington D.C. Labor bosses who lost out on major legislative favors over the past two years could still gain the upper hand against private sector operations compliments of the [...]

By Kevin Mooney — If the Republicans do take control of congress next year, it would mean “hand to hand combat” to preserve vital policies, President Obama declared in a Wednesday radio interview. But whatever the outcome is on Election Day, the administration’s team of unelected lawyers is already going for broke to secure unpopular anti-business policies without legislative consent. [...]

Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today condemned the appointment of Elizabeth Warren as a special assistant to Barack Obama in order to avoid a tough confirmation battle in the Senate. “Rather than engage in the constitutional process of Senatorial advice and consent, and nominate Warren to the post of Director of the Financial Protection Bureau, Obama has simply [...]