Lisa Nelson

The Biden Administration’s “Build Back Better Plan” is currently sitting at a hefty 2,500 pages – more than 100 times larger than The Communist Manifesto, a 23-page pamphlet. And the proposed spending would make even Marx and Engels blush. I..

A year after the first COVID-19 shutdown, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act - the $1.9 trillion coronavirus legislation that truly has little to do with coronavirus at all. The third of its kind since 2020, the bill was proposed wi..

In January, the world changed following closely behind the disruption of financial markets at the hand of individual investors. The invisible hand of free market economics, originally introduced by Adam Smith, was abruptly replaced by a very visible..

On January 10, 1776, impassioned Americans - from the streets of the Colonies to private meetings in taverns - were moved by an anonymous pamphlet calling for independence and liberty from Great Britain. Today it is recognized as one of the most imp..

The states experienced a major upheaval of the economic success that preceded the pandemic this year, but, like clockwork, we have overcome one step at a time. We didn’t get a free pass to fall behind, and neither did our state leaders. It is impo..

Congress is debating another $1 trillion stimulus package in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The first stimulus package granted hundreds of billions of dollars in an attempt to relieve family, business and government funding shortfalls as a resul..

Only 15 miles from ALEC headquarters in Arlington, Virginia lies a relic of a bygone era: the Lorton Workhouse and Reformatory. Originally built in 1910 by the very prisoners it would house, shortly after its opening it became the home of the Silent..

The beginning of the year brought with it a new decade, one we all hope will be filled with opportunity and success for us all. Contrary to what some of the folks currently out on the hustings say, government cannot guarantee those outcomes, but it ..