Economics
Acton Institute – The Mission of the Acton Institute is to promote a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles.
Allegheny Institute – Our mission is to defend the interests of taxpayers, citizens and businesses against an increasingly burdensome and intrusive government.
Cato Institute – The mission of the Cato Institute is to increase the understanding of public policies based on the principles of limited government, free markets, individual liberty, and peace. The Institute will use the most effective means to originate, advocate, promote, and disseminate applicable policy proposals that create free, open, and civil societies in the United States and throughout the world.
Commonwealth Foundation – crafts free-market policies, convinces Pennsylvanians of their benefits, and counters attacks on liberty.
Tools from the Commonwealth Foundation: It doesn’t take a crystal ball to see that without swift action Pennsylvania’s fiscal house will soon burst into flames. State lawmakers have adequate warning about the threats to our economy, but business as usual will leave taxpayers and future generations with a four-alarm inferno.
For 40 consecutive years, total state spending increased in Pennsylvania. Regardless of the economy, taxpayers’ income and Democrat or Republican control, spending increased each and every year. Until 2011, that is. For the first time in memory, state government actually shrank last year.
The overspending of decades gone by has resulted in a sharp increase in Pennsylvania taxes. Today, Keystone State families pay more than $4,000 per person in state and local taxes, the 10th highest tax burden in the country. The effect: Pennsylvania ranks near the bottom in job, income and population growth over the past 20 years.
Click here to read more of the Commonwealth Foundation’s Nathan Benefield’s column.
Foundation for Economic Education – FEE’s mission is to offer the most consistent case for the “first principles” of freedom: the sanctity of private property, individual liberty, the rule of law, the free market, and the moral superiority of individual choice and responsibility over coercion.
Heartland Institute – Its mission is to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems.
The Tax Foundation – The mission of the Tax Foundation is to educate taxpayers about sound tax policy and the size of the tax burden borne by Americans at all levels of government. From its founding in 1937, the Tax Foundation has been grounded in the belief that the dissemination of basic information about government finance is the foundation of sound policy in a free society.
TEA Party Patriots – of the famous “TEA Party” (Taxed Enough Already) protests.
Education
Home School Legal Defense Association – dedicated to preserving the right of citizens to control the education of their children.
CitizenLink – Focus on the Family Action
Eagle Forum-to enable conservative and pro-family men and women to participate in the process of self-government and public policy making so that America will continue to be a land of individual liberty, respect for family integrity, public and private virtue, and private enterprise.
Federal Government
General Interest
The Free State Project – project to choose one state and attempt to transform it back into a limited government state. Interesting concept.
The Heritage Foundation -The Heritage Foundation is committed to building an America where freedom, opportunity, prosperity and civil society flourish.
The Future of Freedom Foundation – The mission of The Future of Freedom Foundation is to advance freedom by providing an uncompromising moral and economic case for individual liberty, free markets, private property, and limited government.
Second Amendment
Firearms Owners Against Crime is non-partisan, non-connected Political Action Committee organized to empower ‘all’ gun owners, outdoors enthusiasts and supporters of the 2nd Amendment to the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution and Article 1 Section 21 of the PA Constitution with the tools and information necessary to protect this freedom from transgression.
Voter Information
News
GOP USA – a news organization promoting conservative viewpoints. Not an official republican web site.
GrassrootsPA – a website dedicated to informing its readers of PA’s latest breaking Pennsylvania stories, be they politics, news, culture or corruption.
Opinion
Townhall.com – Townhall.com is the #1 conservative website. Townhall.com pulls together political commentary and analysis from over 100 leading columnists and opinion leaders, research from 100 partner organizations, conservative talk-radio and a community of millions of grassroots conservatives.
The Patriot Post – The Patriot Post is a highly acclaimed Internet-based journal advocating individual liberty, the restoration of constitutional limits on government and the judiciary, and the promotion of free enterprise, national defense and traditional American values.