The great 20th century economist Milton Friedman knew exactly how to explain the problems with a country creating "cradle to grave" entitlements for its citizenry.

Unions are crippling our state and federal governments, and the President of the United States is totally cool with it.

A special thank you to Senator Burzynski, Representative Pritchard and Susan Fox from C.O.R.E.

A new study from The Heritage Foundation discusses the problems and pitfalls in claiming that hiring more government workers is really a way to "create jobs."

You don't have to be a close observer of politics to see the troubling similarities in the economic and budgetary conditions of the nation and the state of Illinois. With both economies beset with high unemployment and tepid growth, our state and national politicians have governed their way into exploding deficits, out-of-control spending and an unsustainable growth of government.