On: 07/15/2009 10:34:56 In: Fiscal Responsibility By Justin Williams With the current recession driving states to beg for handouts from the Obama Administration, some legislators will invariably begin to look at other areas for revenue. And some states will probably consider what could be called the “Nevada […]

On: 07/09/2009 09:39:17 In: Fiscal Responsibility By Howard Rich “Sacred and undeniable.” That’s how Thomas Jefferson originally described the basic American rights to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Of course, Ben Franklin changed these to “inalienable” rights, and a printer’s error resulted in them becoming […]

On: 07/02/2009 10:38:57 In: Fiscal Responsibility By Howard Rich How many California state employees does it take to screw in a light bulb? We’ll find out soon enough. After steadily growing both its budget and bureaucratic payroll for years, California’s fiscal house of cards collapsed last year, […]

On: 07/30/2009 09:22:09 In: Hard Left By Carter Clews Make no mistake about it: Barack Obama is a doctrinaire Marxist. Always has been. Is now. Will be until the day he dies. And, now, he is absolutely determined to defend at all costs – including the Monroe […]

On: 07/24/2009 09:30:05 In: Health Care By Robert Romano Barack Obama is publicly pulling out all of the stops to salvage his hemorrhaging government-run, socialized medicine scheme. The so-called public “option” is languishing in the House of Representatives, and so far, the Pied Piper President has been unable to […]

On: 07/21/2009 09:14:45 In: Appointments Very little notice is being given in the national media to the quality of the people President Obama is appointing to run the federal bureaucracies. Here are three examples: Cathy Zoi , Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. In […]

On: 07/15/2009 10:33:39 In: Uncategorized ALG Editor’s Note: In the following, Americans for Limited Government’s own William Warren is featured in the Dakota Voice .  

On: 07/08/2009 09:39:13 In: Health Care By Justin Williams This week, as Congress reconvenes, the pressure from the White House is building to put the final touches on health care reform. While news outlets describe the Congressional debates as “wrestling” and emphasize the inevitable “compromises” that will be […]

On: 07/02/2009 10:38:22 In: Health Care By Victor Morawski The term “lifeboat ethics” is used to describe ethical issues that arise in situations involving the allocation of limited resources. It originally came out of a landmark 1974 article by philosopher Garrett Harden in connection with ethical questions surrounding the issue of providing food aid to underdeveloped nations . He pictured wealthier nations as being like so many lifeboats—all with limited capacity, of course—afloat in a […]

On: 07/30/2009 09:21:20 In: Health Care Although the vote has been delayed until after Congress’ August recess, the debate swirling around ObamaCare and the potential government takeover of American medicine is still raging as furiously as ever. Also raging—or enraged, rather—are Congressional Democrats who have been caught […]