March 23, 2021

Permission to republish original opeds and cartoons granted.

On this day in 1839, the initials “O.K.” are first published in The Boston Morning Post. Meant as an abbreviation for “oll korrect,” a popular slang misspelling of “all correct” at the time, OK steadily made its way into the everyday speech of Americans. During the late 1830s, it was a favorite practice among younger, educated circles to misspell words intentionally, then abbreviate them and use them as slang when talking to one another.

Are you worried about China owning too much of our national debt? Research into that by our vice president of public policy Robert Romano may surprise you.

ALG puts forward a wish list of policy reforms we'd like to see if Republicans regain control of the Senate and don't have a filibuster.

Plus, the White House press secretary dances arond the question of Biden's health following the president's bizarre series of falls climbing aboard Air Force One last week.

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By Robert Romano

The U.S. Federal Reserve and the Social Security and Medicare trust funds own a collective $11 trillion of U.S. treasuries, comprising 39 percent of the total $27.97 trillion national debt, and rising, U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve data show. As long as central banks, financial institutions and pensions continue buying, then there is no sovereign debt crisis and no reason for interest rates to skyrocket.

By Catherine Mortensen

Sen. McConnell offered up his policy wish list should Democrats eliminate the filibuster rule, and Republicans regain the majority. ALG has its own legislative wish list under such a scenario.

By Frank McCaffrey

Americans for Limited Government revisits a pastor from upstate New York to see how his church is doing one year into the Covid Pandemic.

The filibuster is just one of 44 standing rules in the Senate. Each is designed to enhance the rights of the individual senators, at the expense of the majority. Senator Mitch McConnell said if Democrats remove the filibuster rule, it may lead to a scorched earth policy when Republicans regain the majority.

WHAT WE'RE READING

Urge the Senate to reject Vanita Gupta for the third highest position at the Department of Justice. Gupta is a former ACLU attorney with radical positions about our nation and brave law enforcement. For example, she tweeted Americans "all have implicit bias and racial bias.” And she testified to Congress in favor of defunding and "shrinking the police."

Join us in the fight to reduce the size and scope of government, protect individual rights, promote federalism, and roll back the tyranny of the administrative state. Together we can put America first, foster free enterprise, and restore the rule of law.