Tag: Government

Michael Fell, of Culver City, Calif., holds up a sign reading "STOP SPENDING MONEY" as he speaks at a Tea Party rally. AÃÂ more pragmatic Tea Party movement still represents the best hope for supporters of limited government who want to prevent the Republican Party from lurching back to its Bush-era embrace of big government.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Tea Party still needed to prevent GOP lurch toward big government

Philip Klein · February 13, 2014 5:00 am

Feds’ Climate Change Website Hacked By Online Drug Seller

Jeryl Bier · February 12, 2014 12:12 pm

The hand of Marta Lopez, left, touches the finger of her daughter as they stand separated by a fence between Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego, Calif., during a Sunday mass celebration on July 14. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

GOP’s border-control plan a recipe for bigger government

Shikha Dalmia · February 7, 2014 5:00 am

Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., voted for the farm bill last week after voting against it last year. (AP File)

Beltway Confidential

Farm subsidies, political leverage, and the ratchet of statism

Timothy P. Carney · February 6, 2014 5:00 am

By discouraging work, Obamacare is making U.S. fiscal problems worse

Philip Klein · February 6, 2014 5:00 am

Nowhere in our Constitution is there a clause that mandates government to act as an employer, a health care provider or a charity. (Thinkstock)

Big government does too much, badly

Rep Linda Upmeyer · January 28, 2014 5:00 am

Opportunistic Marketers Exploit Opening at Healthcare.gov

Jeryl Bier · January 23, 2014 12:04 pm

With Republicans having a chance the regain the Senate in 2014 and the presidency in 2016, there's a big debate playing out among conservatives as far as the proper post-Obama agenda. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Where conservatives can find common ground on limiting government

Philip Klein · January 23, 2014 5:00 am

When businesses get in the government handout line, it's not a "public-private partnership." It's corporate welfare. (Photo: Thinkstock)

The US Chamber of Commerce versus America

Michelle Malkin · January 22, 2014 5:00 am

Federal Gov’t Closes Due to Threat of Snow

Daniel Halper · January 21, 2014 12:03 pm

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is set to take the oath of office for a second term Tuesday. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

In inaugural address, Chris Christie criticizes ‘big, expensive government’

Charlie Spiering · January 21, 2014 5:00 am

Washington's federal government offices closed Tuesday, and may well close Wednesday, due to snow.ÃÂ Government workers still get paid. In the rest of the country, work goes on as usual.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Snow day musing: Americans don’t miss the vast federal bureaucracy that sucks up their tax dollars

Diana Furchtgott-Roth · January 21, 2014 5:00 am