On: 05/18/2009 09:53:08 In: Energy Crisis, Global Warming Fraud, and the Environment By Rep. Tom Price (GA) As published at NetRightNation.com . When energy prices spiked last year, Americans across the political spectrum understood a simple concept that many in Washington still don’t get: high energy costs hurt. Sadly, those affected most were least able to absorb […]

On: 05/12/2009 09:43:32 In: Fiscal Responsibility By Robert Romano “Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon,” A.A. Milne advises. Unless, of course, one is referring to the ballooning deficits in Washington: projected to be an unenviable record $1.75 trillion for 2009. Unfortunately for American taxpayers, it is a balloon […]

On: 05/07/2009 12:29:25 In: Economy ALG Editor’s Note: In the following featured commentary, federal circuit judge Richard Posner that stability remains out of reach when the nation’s central bank fools itself that easy money and loose lending are the tools for economic growth: Capitalism in Crisis It’s hard to run a safe banking system when the central bank is recklessly easy. By RICHARD A. […]

On: 05/01/2009 09:35:35 In: Barack Obama ALG Editor’s Note: In the following featured video , former Senator Fred Thompson reviews Barack Obama’s first hundred days in office: Fred Thompson on Obama’s First Hundred Days    

On: 05/28/2009 10:19:44 In: Appointments 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: 05/21/2009 10:20:40 In: Monetary Policy By Howie Rich I’ll be the first to admit that the notion of Washington politicians auditing the Federal Reserve initially struck me as a little bit kooky – and more than a little bit backward. Shouldn’t the financial geniuses be auditing […]

On: 05/18/2009 09:52:38 In: Economy ALG Editor’s Note: In the following featured commentary, Forbes’ Bruce Bartlett explains why unrestrained federal spending will eventually be paid for by confiscatory taxes : The 81% Tax Increase Bruce Bartlett, 05.15.09, 12:00 AM ET This week, the federal government published two important reports on long-term budgetary trends. They both show that we are on an unsustainable […]

On: 05/12/2009 09:42:10 In: Big Labor ALG Editor’s Note: The American Spectator quoted Americans for Limited Government research mavens and former Labor officials Don Todd and Nathan Mehrens: Hands Off Big Labor By Philip Klein on 5.8.09 @ 6:09AM The Obama administration has delivered a strong message to crooked […]

On: 05/06/2009 11:52:15 In: Economy By Isaac MacMillen and Robert Romano America sits upon a precipice, and below, the dark expanse is beckoning. As the Obama Administration goes to war with the Chrysler bondholders in bankruptcy court, any hope of closing the floodgates of Marxist wealth redistribution may […]

On: 05/28/2009 10:19:22 In: Fiscal Responsibility By Robert Romano The debt bomb is ticking. And unless it is disarmed, the American people will inevitably be plagued with out-of-control inflation, confiscatory taxes, and higher interest rates. As congressmen across the nation work out of their home districts this week, they […]