On: 01/27/2011 09:41:02 In: Fiscal Responsibility ALG Editor’s Note: In the following featured oped , Senators Orrin Hatch and John Cornyn make the case for a balanced budget/spending cap amendment: By Senator Orrin Hatch and Senator John Cornyn During the economic crisis, families across America tightened their belts, balanced their budgets and […]
On: 01/27/2011 09:41:52 In: Uncategorized By Rebekah Rast “The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.”—Franklin D. Roosevelt There has not been a leader of this country that didn’t stress the importance of educating America’s youth. Even Obama, very recently in his State of the Union address , acknowledged, “Over the […]
On: 01/27/2011 09:43:09 In: Uncategorized By Howard Rich Over the last decade, America’s leaders chose to address the unsustainable growth of an already bloated federal government by spending unprecedented amounts of borrowed money. First there was George W. Bush’s “compassionate conservatism,” a wholesale abandonment of the Republican view […]
On: 01/28/2011 09:15:42 In: Fiscal Responsibility ALG Editor’s Note: In the following featured column from RealClearMarkets , Diana Furchgott-Roth makes the case for spending cuts, even if Barack Obama won’t: By Diana Furchtgott-Roth WASHINGTON-President Obama’s State of the Union address demonstrated anew that although he pays lip service to smaller government, less regulation, and […]
On: 01/28/2011 09:16:48 In: Energy Crisis, Global Warming Fraud, and the Environment By Kevin Mooney What is a green job? That question has a special relevance here in the early part of 2011 now that Team Obama has altered its environmental strategy. When he campaigned in 2008, President Obama said he would create […]
On: 01/28/2011 09:17:20 In: Uncategorized ALG Editor’s Note: William Warren’s award-winning cartoons published at GetLiberty.org are a free service of ALG News Bureau. They may be reused and redistributed free of charge.
On: 01/28/2011 09:17:55 In: Fiscal Responsibility By Rick Manning The feel good State of the Union address with the good little boys and girls of the Congress sitting red, blue, red, blue was given a stark reality check by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on January 26th which projected […]
On: 01/31/2011 09:12:33 In: Uncategorized By Adam Bitely As the new Republican Congress debates where it will cut back spending, Amtrak is one place they could start with. If there is any example of ludicrous, wasteful government spending, Amtrak is definitely the place to look at. To begin […]