06.24.2010

Is the welfare state a ponzi scheme?

By Howard Rich – Ponzi schemes rely on people falling for promises that are literally too good to be true — but the outcomes are never really in doubt for the perpetrators of these scams, are they? First they are playing with money that does […]

06.23.2010

Judge Overruling Obama Order Is Said to Have Conflict, but What About Green Influence?

When judges advance  liberal goals by way of making an end-run around the democratically elected branches of government, they are celebrated in the media. But when they stand in the way of presidential directives that do the bidding of environmental groups, they need to be […]

06.22.2010

Media Scrutiny of Berman’s Non-Profits Should be Directed Against ACORN

By Kevin Mooney — Questions are being raised in The New York Times about the relationship between Richard Berman’s for-profit communications firm and the six non-profit firms he founded. The Washington D.C. lobbyist, turned policy advocate, has used the non-profits to help organize against policies […]

06.22.2010

Now or never

By Bill Wilson – Despite the continuing fiscal meltdown facing the federal, state, and local governments, occurring in tandem with the sovereign debt crisis globally, Paul Krugman still appears to have the ear of appropriators. In his Monday column, “Now and Later,” he writes, “Spend now, while the economy remains depressed” promising illusory savings “later, once […]

06.17.2010

Obey stalls Afghan war funding to get public sector union bailouts

By NetRight Daily – The true face of David Obey and his Democrat allies in Congress was exposed yesterday. Retiring Rep. David Obey (D-WI), the Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, announced that he would stall a supplemental $33 billion Afghanistan war funding bill in […]

06.17.2010

Barack Obama’s Bogus Budget Cuts

By Howard Rich – In its latest attempt to mitigate public outrage over out-of-control government growth, the administration of President Barack Obama has instructed a handful of federal agencies to cut their budgets by five percent. That’s right — after trillions of dollars in deficit […]

06.16.2010

Increasing Capital Gains Tax Decreases Capital

By Rebekah Rast – If the government thinks people are going to sit idly by and continue their normal routines come Jan. 1, 2011, when President Bush’s tax cuts expire, it is wrong. Americans will change and adapt to new tax rates by whatever means […]

06.16.2010

Driving right off the cliff

By Bill Wilson – To accept the arguments in favor of Barack Obama’s $50 billion bailout of bankrupt state governments like California and New York, one has to believe that fiscal and monetary “stimulus” to date and other government interventions, totaling trillions of dollars, have merely been […]

06.14.2010

Congress should reject $50 billion states bailout

By ALG News – Americans for Limited Government (ALG) President Bill Wilson today renewed his call for Congress to reject “another bailout of insolvent state governments like New York and California, this time with a $50 billion payout to public sector employee unions in an election year.” […]

06.14.2010

Overstimulated

By Robert Romano – The Keynesian worldview is unraveling at a remarkable pace, even as Washington desperately cleaves to its once-vaunted borrow-and-spend philosophy to “stimulating” the economy out of recession. On June 4th, former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich warned that the nation is “falling into a double-dip recession,” but he does not blame overstimulus or too much […]

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