Continuing on the Recovery Summer and Stimulus: State by State , we head to Vermont. Quick Vermont facts: In January of 2009, the unemployment rate in Vermont was 6.2%. As of July 31, 2010, the unemployment rate was 6.0% (Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics ) According to Recovery.gov, Vermont has received only 1,399 awards. This has […]

By Rebekah Rast – Those who are in line to receive a heap of coal in their stocking from Santa this year might want to hang on to it. The EPA recently gave “further guidance” to the mountaintop mining industry . Using the Clean Water Act, coal mine plans must meet various expectations and guideposts […]

By Kevin Mooney — With the mid-term elections just a few weeks away, the New York Times appears set to attack Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), the House Minority leader, from every direction. An article that ran in Saturday’s paper begins with demeaning and disparaging comments about Barry […]

By Kevin Mooney — Is the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) starting to unravel? Deere and Co. very quietly dropped out of this coalition earlier this year that includes green pressure groups and corporate sellouts to big government. The company, which is the world’s largest […]

By Kevin Mooney — Let’s take this from the perspective of a reader who is not familiar with the Tea Party candidate running for governor of New York as a Republican. Carl P. Paladino comes across as an unstable, overly emotional man with no sense […]

Americans for Limited Government (ALG) President Bill Wilson today issued the following statement urging Barack Obama to fire former SEIU head Andy Stern from the National Debt Commission and to discontinue White House meetings with Stern amid an FBI investigation into the former labor head and other corruption at the union : “Until such time that Andy Stern is cleared of all […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Tuesday Morning, Here are your morning Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : Overseas stimulus operations Rahm to leave White House by end of the week… Insider is likely to replace Rahm Cartoon of the day, “The Enthusiasm Gap” It’s time to reform state government Obama’s education vision deserves an F Politics versus gold The problem with ObamaCare is that it stinks Confirmation theater Creepy Hillary picture… Are taxpayers really getting soaked by for-profit colleges? Below is a statement from ALG President Bill Wilson calling on Congress to make the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 permanent before the midterm elections: “The American […]

Non-profit advocacy groups that support private sector interests are operating by way of subterfuge and stealth to advance public policy measures that favor a select few, according to a front page piece that ran Sunday, September 26th . Pejorative words like “cloak” and “hidden” are used in the headline to set the tone for a highly […]

The stimulus worked! Just not here. The irony for central planners never seems to cease. The U.S. and other developed nations, by spending and printing too much money — designed to fuel their own economies — are instead stimulating growth and inflation in emerging economies […]