The only time Senator Isakson opposes big government action is when the government is actually trying to improve the lives of large numbers of Americans, rather than delivering trinkets of prestige to the wealthy owners of sports teams.

S. 968, the Protect IP Act, allows the government or a corporation to enforce a takedown of a website if a judge determines it is an “ISDIA” (Internet site dedicated to infringing activities). Two very different stories about the Protect IP Act are being told. Artists opposing the PROTECT-IP / SOPA Act has one take: [...]

There was a cloture vote on S. 1038, the legislation crafted by Senator Harry Reid and Senator John McConnell to extend the unconstitutional spying of the Patriot Act for four more years. Only 8 senators had the courage to vote in opposition to the big government spying program.

H.R. 1868 would force businesses to create fuel with coal gunk added to it, and give Americans no alternative, and Larry Bucshon supports it, even though he claims to hate intrusive government regulations.

Virginia Foxx has had 12 years as part of a Republican-controlled Congress to shrink the size of the federal government, but she’s been part of a movement to make the government bigger.

Republican Joseph Cao, a new member of the House of Representatives whose New Orleans district is now threatened by the consequences of BP’s sloppy response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster, provided us with an example last week of the new embrace of government solutions by many in the congressional GOP.

Taxes are an investment, not a loss. People who imagine that their country would be the same if no one had to pay taxes aren’t thinking beyond their own small interests, beyond the desires of the moment.

Congressman Michael Simpson suggests that in order for free market enterprise to survive, it needs to be propped up by federal government money that will in turn be spent by a state governmental organization – Boise State University, in this case. In what sense, then, is the free market free?

How can Mary Fallin complain that ending a government-run program will force people to use a government-run program?

Congressman John Fleming tries to scare voters with the idea of the federal government involved in our everyday lives, but the government is already there.