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: 06/26/2009 11:33:52 In: Health Care By Victor Morawski About twenty-five years ago, then-Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm stirred up a bee’s nest of controversy with his assertion that elderly, terminally ill patients have “got a duty to die and get out of the way.” While the Governor has since waffled on whether he actually meant the words he actually said, plenty of others have not on this […]

On: 06/22/2009 11:33:04 In: Hard Left By David Bozeman One morning while getting ready for work, channel surfing for the latest headlines, I happened upon one of those boring infomercials. Not one of the cheesy kinds, with just enough perverse entertainment value to keep you glued but, […]

On: 06/15/2009 09:59:28 In: Monetary Policy By Robert Romano Late last week, House and Senate negotiators agreed to language for what is now a nearly $106 billion war supplementa l, bringing to the floor of both bodies legislation that has been delayed for nearly 2 weeks. The trouble began when Republicans dropped their support for the supplemental on account of some $108 billion included for the International Monetary […]