By Rebekah Rast – Siemens, the German engineering group, is having difficulty filling job openings in the U.S. With an unemployment rate of 9.1 percent, how is that possible? Eric Spiegel, chief executive in the U.S. for Siemens, said in an interview with Financial Times that, “There’s a mismatch […]

By William Warren – My latest cartoon weighs in on recent U.S. Open winner Rory McIlroy and Obama’s golf habits.

Hear from ALG President Bill Wilson on what the Obama Administration is trying to do to solve the jobs problem and why it is a bad idea. Plus, Minnesota Congressman John Kline also addresses jobs in a special interview.

Michelle Malkin describes the decisions facing our nation in the upcoming election

Last Thursday, Rep. Anthony Weiner announced that he would be resigning from Congress. But here we are 4 days later, and Speaker John Boehner’s office still hasn’t received a resignation letter, as Politico reported . On June 9, Weiner was concerned about how he would make money if he resigned from Congress . Apparently he has found a way to alleviate […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Monday morning, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : Bailouts erode confidence in value Debt-limit deal: Will the cuts be phony? GOP Senate Minority Leader McConnell: A short debt-limit hike is not out of the question… Barone: Government looks to past, free enterprise to future Why not let prices and wages fall? The accountable care fiasco Is the GOP isolationist? No, just more Jacksonian Is the NATO alliance obsolete? Assessing the EPA’s moral case for new power plant emissions rules… Gangster government attack on oil companies An open letter to Paul Krugman Green statists at a grocery store

By Frank McCaffrey – Our Treasury Secretary is at it again. Timothy Geithner has intervened in a plan to help Ireland’s taxpayers. ALG’s Robert Romano cites this as a reason to shine the Team Obama Spotlight on him.

By Victor Morawski – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently proposed two controversial new rules that set a national standard for emissions from coal-fired power plants . Since these rules are part of the Clean Air Act, it must follow that Act’s Congressional mandate to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of the societal impact of any such proposed standard. This analysis shall “consider […]

By Bill Wilson – What is the price of a bailout? Nominally, it’s how much a central bank or legislature has to print or spend, respectively, to save a failed institution from its own stupidity. For example, the Treasury has dedicated more than $150 billion to bailing […]

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