Lloyd Chapman

Over the weekend, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) pledged support for same-sex marriage, which, in all fairness, is a good thing. But what surprises me is that the NAACP has been silent on an issue that strikes at the heart of the organization's mission. That...

Today, under various federal laws, the term "small business" can define a range of companies, from businesses with less than 50 employees, to publicly traded corporations as large as Lockheed Martin -- the federal government's largest prime contractor.

This question of how big a "small business" is, is of critical...

One of the most important problems raised by recent news of the General Services Administration's (GSA) trip to Las Vegas on the taxpayer's dime is the abuse of federal small business contracting programs.

The GSA Inspector General's (IG) report on over $800,000 of taxpayer money that was spent on a...

The latest government scandal resulting in the resignation of the head of the General Services Administration (GSA) is just a small sample of the way our government really works. It's just like when a doctor takes a sample of your blood to check the condition of the rest...

President Eisenhower was clearly correct in his 1961 Presidential exit speech when he warned America of the growing power of the 'military-industrial complex'.

"We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex," Eisenhower told the nation as the power...

This week the Wall Street Journal asked whether or not the Small Business Administration should be abolished. The WSJ then allowed Koch brothers mouthpiece, Veronique de Rugy, to comment. It's fascinating the way these snakes go after one of the smallest agencies...

While Congress and the Senate are churning out a number of bills to project the appearance that they are helping small businesses, they are ignoring the largest problems facing America's more than 28 million small businesses.

Small businesses employ over half the private sector workforce, are responsible for...

President Obama, as he campaigned for president in 2008, told people across the country that if they elected him president he would enact a windfall profits tax on the oil and gas industry. He said the money would be used to help people pay their energy bills.

Within...

The most recent data from the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) shows that last year the Obama administration diverted billions of dollars in federal small business contracts to some of the biggest companies in the world.

A report from the American Small Business League (ASBL) conducted using FPDS shows...

During the 2008 presidential election, then-Senator Barack Obama called for a windfall profits tax on the oil industry to subsidize a $1,000 "emergency" rebate for consumers struggling with surging gas prices and made provocative statements regarding the cost of energy and its respective negative impact on...

I feel like I'm one of the only people in the country not fooled by Barack Obama's speeches. I have met and spoken with him. I worked on his campaign and endorsed him for president. I appeared on dozens of radio shows advocating for his election. Yet he hasn't done...

Tuesday night President Obama will deliver his State of the Union address. My guess is he is going to do the same thing in this address that he's done in the past: make promises he has no intention of keeping.

He's going to give us more campaign rhetoric, he...

With President Obama's recent proposal to consolidate six federal trade and commerce departments, small businesses finally have a seat on the president's cabinet -- for now.

Unfortunately, Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Karen Mills' appointment to cabinet-level membership is obviously nothing more than a temporary political ploy by Obama to...

Obama has duped the public, the media and Congress with his latest proposal to 'streamline' government.

He talks about reducing the size of the federal government and increasing efficiency but it's all a scam.

It's an insult to taxpayers' intelligence to say that combining the SBA with the...

President Obama's latest claim that he's going to shrink government by combining the Small Business Administration with the Department of Commerce is laughable.

He called a national press conference on the subject of shrinking government to only announce that he wants to combine one of the smallest agencies in the...

Regardless of whether the next president is a Republican or Democrat, whether it's Barack Obama or Mitt Romney or any other of the Republican frontrunners, one thing is guaranteed: he will lie.

He will lie to the American people, he will make promises he knows he has no intention...

Because my greatest fear is what the next president is going to do to the middle class and America's small businesses, I constantly watch coverage of the Republican primaries. Of course, one of the most popular subjects is the economy and jobs. But I've noticed something -- I have not...

Let me give you some advice I have been giving to people for a decade: quit listening to what your politicians are saying and start watching what they are doing.

If you look past the propaganda you'll see that the U.S. government is anti-small business. For over a...

Politically and economically, the U.S. in 2011 fell flat on its face. There are several reasons why our government miserably failed us this year but the most devastating reason is that it did absolutely nothing to help the economy. In fact, the Obama administration helped make matters worse. Here are...

The Obama administration has quietly adopted a series of anti-small business policies that will cost small businesses and minority-owned small businesses billions of dollars a month.

In the midst of the worst economic downturn in U.S. history, President Obama is abolishing the nation's oldest and most successful...