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Howard Rich is the Chairman of Americans for Limited Government.
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Howard Rich (Dec 23, 2010)
At long last there are finally signs that the American Republic’s breakneck descent into full-blown socialist madness – which was fast approaching terminal velocity prior... more
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Howard Rich (Dec 16, 2010)
With fresh data showing that students in the United States are falling further behind their international peers, a commitment to universal parental choice at all levels of... more
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Howard Rich (Dec 02, 2010)
“Cancun can.”
That’s the catchphrase of this year’s United Nations’ “global warming” conference – a costly taxpayer-funded boondoggle being held at the tropical Yucatan... more
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Howard Rich (Nov 26, 2010)
As the European economy grapples with yet another bailout of a bankrupt sovereign state, a storyline is emerging that seeks to frame this latest instance of government... more
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Howard Rich (Nov 18, 2010)
While it lacks the panache of Patrick Henry’s impassioned “give me liberty” cry (which the Virginian borrowed from Cato, incidentally), the reality is that Republicans... more
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Howard Rich (Nov 05, 2010)
Mere days after winning the presidency on the strength of his proposed “middle class tax cuts,” U.S. President Barack Obama switched gears and began outlining his vision... more
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Howard Rich (Oct 28, 2010)
A new Gallup poll shows that forty-six percent of Americans believe the federal government “poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens.”
The... more
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Howard Rich (Oct 21, 2010)
While you can’t fool “all of the people, all of the time,” it is surprisingly easy to fool a sufficient number of them to get elected.
“People will believe a big lie sooner... more
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Howard Rich (Oct 14, 2010)
No public official has been more integrally involved in the federal government’s “Great Intervention” than U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
Over the course of... more
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Howard Rich (Oct 07, 2010)
As the infamous Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) winds down this week, Republicans and Democrats in Washington, D.C. are patting themselves on the back for a job well... more
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Howard Rich (Sep 30, 2010)
There may be no such thing as a silver bullet in public policy, but universal parental choice is the closest thing we have to one — assuming our politicians summon the... more
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Howard Rich (Aug 12, 2010)
The more things “change,” the more they stay the same in Barack Obama’s Washington, D.C. – especially when it comes to government transparency.
After decrying his... more
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Howard Rich (Aug 05, 2010)
Four years ago, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promised to “drain the swamp” of corruption in Washington, D.C., but after failing miserably to do so it now appears she’s choosing... more
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Howard Rich (Jul 22, 2010)
Contrary to Barack Obama’s rhetoric about protecting consumers, his new financial reform law represents a dangerous big government power grab that willfully ignores the... more
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Howard Rich (Jul 09, 2010)
In a column published last week in The New York Times, Princeton economics professor Paul Krugman condemns recent attempts to inject some common sense into what has become... more
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Howard Rich (Jun 24, 2010)
Ponzi schemes rely on people falling for promises that are literally too good to be true – but the outcomes are never really in doubt for the perpetrators of these scams,... more
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Howard Rich (Jun 18, 2010)
In its latest attempt to mitigate public outrage over out-of-control government growth, the administration of President Barack Obama has instructed a handful of federal... more
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Howard Rich (Jun 10, 2010)
Of all the myths helping to sustain the unsustainable status quo in Washington, D.C., among the most widely accepted is the belief that a politician’s seniority translates... more
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Howard Rich (May 20, 2010)
It began last November in statewide races in Virginia and New Jersey. Then it swept through Massachusetts in a stunning U.S. Senate special election this January. Most... more
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Howard Rich (May 13, 2010)
America’s Founding Fathers envisioned a limited government in which laws were fairly and evenly enforced and justice was blind. Yet as government’s lust for additional... more
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Howard Rich (May 06, 2010)
A little over a year ago, a columnist for the newspaper that once served as the official communications organ of the Central Committee of the Union of Soviet Socialist... more
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Howard Rich (Apr 29, 2010)
In its quest to ram perpetual bank bailouts and draconian new government regulations through the U.S. Congress under the guise of “financial services reform,” the... more
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Howard Rich (Apr 22, 2010)
When he first began his career as a crusading consumer journalist in the 1970s, John Stossel believed fervently that higher taxes and greater government involvement in the... more
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Howard Rich (Mar 25, 2010)
Lost amid the partisan sniping and procedural jousting over the passage of “Obamacare” is a fundamental, unavoidable hypocrisy - one that’s worth unmasking as Washington... more
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Howard Rich (Mar 18, 2010)
In addition to promising an end to Republicans’ out-of-control spending, Democrats vowed to “drain the swamp” of corruption in Washington D.C. prior to winning their... more
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Howard Rich (Mar 11, 2010)
With the “science” of global warming collapsing like a house of cards, the Copenhagen “climate change” conference accomplishing absolutely nothing and a massive energy tax... more
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Howard Rich (Mar 04, 2010)
Seeking to capitalize on the righteous indignation voters are feeling toward President Barack Obama and his Congressional allies, a group of Republican politicians is... more
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Howard Rich (Feb 19, 2010)
As America loudly repudiates the leftist agenda of President Barack Obama and his Congressional allies, a group of partisan GOP opportunists is busy promoting a theory of... more
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Howard Rich (Feb 12, 2010)
A year after it was passed, it has become painfully obvious to anyone with open eyes that the massive federal “stimulus” – along with several other trillion-dollar... more
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Howard Rich (Feb 04, 2010)
“We’re not going to save our way out of this recession. We’ve got to spend our way out of this recession.” – U.S. Majority Whip Jim Clyburn
Just days before Congressman... more
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Howard Rich (Jan 29, 2010)
Barack Obama's Panic Week has come and gone, but did his White House learn anything from the historic repudiation of his leftist agenda? Putting the question another way,... more
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Howard Rich (Jan 21, 2010)
It’s been a time of Tea parties throughout America, but did anyone really believe that the limited government movement that’s sweeping across the country would arrive at... more
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Howard Rich (Jan 14, 2010)
The “New Socialism” – as columnist Charles Krauthammer adroitly calls the global governmental power grab and wealth redistribution schemes lurking beneath the “green... more
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Howard Rich (Jan 07, 2010)
While American politicians continue to indulge the unsustainable excesses of a federal government already littered with unnecessary functions, other nations have wisely begun... more