Americans for Limited Government: Americans for Limited Government President Nathan Mehrens today issued the following statement blasting 36 House Republicans for defeating an amendment to an appropriations bill that would have repealed the 82-year old Davis-Bacon prevailing wages mandate for federal contractors: “Prevailing wages demand that the U.S. Department of Labor set the cost for labor for federal government construction contractors rather than having the taxpayers get the benefit of

Let me say this plainly:  a man who grew up basted in communism; spent his formative academic years studying socialism, black liberation theology, critical race theory, and Orientalism; sat in the pews of a church whose pastor preached anti-Americanism, racial separatism, and anti-Semitism; then entered the academy as faculty to rub shoulders with the radical chic lefties of all stripes, the majority of whom self-select based in part on their

I’ve resisted commenting on the story of the 10-year-old girl and her need of a lung transplant, mostly because when I first heard of it I believed HHS Secretary Sebellius was (happily!) correct:  it isn’t, nor should it be, in her control to throw around waivers:  there are established protocols for organ donation and scores issued for where people are placed on lists precisely because we wish to remove the

FISA, the return! The National Security Agency has been collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top secret court order, according to a report in Britain’s Guardian newspaper. The order was granted by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on April 25 and is good until July 19, the newspaper reported Wednesday. The order requires Verizon, one of the nation’s largest telecommunications companies, on