On: 02/13/2009 10:08:04 In: Economy   ALG Editor’s Note: As ALG News previously reported this week , and as noted by the following featured commentary , Treasury Secretary Geithner’s $2.5 trillion bank bailout plan will nationalize the banking industry:   February 12, 2009 Tim Geithner Offers Paralysis, Not Solutions By John Tamny Desperate to sell […]

On: 02/06/2009 10:49:49 In: Big Labor The Obama Administration suffered yet another blow yesterday with more Cabinet nominee tax troubles. This time it comes from Labor Secretary nominee Hilda Solis, whose husband just paid $6,400 in tax liens against his business . They had been outstanding for 16 years. They were only paid two days ago. And that’s just the beginning of her […]

On: 02/02/2009 11:21:01 In: Barack Obama ALG Editor’s Note: In the following featured commentary , Kevin O’Brien of the Cleveland Plain Dealer says what needs to be said: perhaps Barack Obama relishes these “crises”?   America under Obama will see One Crisis after Another By Kevin O’Brien Thursday January 29, 2009, 4:01 […]

On: 02/24/2009 10:33:53 In: Economy By Robert Romano President Obama yesterday declared at his much-ballyhooed Fiscal “Responsibility” Summit that “We’ve got a lot of hard choices to make.” And staring at a $10.7 trillion national debt and at least a $1.2 trillion budget deficit just for 2009 in […]

On: 02/18/2009 09:45:47 In: Fiscal Responsibility ALG Editor’s Note: At press time, ALG News learned the that Kansas state budget has been signed into law , and the borrowing from state funds to pay for other fiscal items is moving forward after the budget was balanced. Once again, government has dug itself into a bottomless fiscal hole from which the […]

On: 02/12/2009 09:55:02 In: Corruption By Howie Rich Scottish lawyer Alexander Tytler once fretted about what would happen to democracies when “voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.” “From that moment on,” he wrote, “the majority always votes for the candidates […]

On: 02/05/2009 09:49:05 In: Barack Obama By Howie Rich President Barack Obama is fond of telling how Abraham Lincoln “saved the union,” but it looks like the only unions he’ll be trying to save during his presidency are those tied to America’s organized labor movement. After decades […]

On: 02/24/2009 10:27:56 In: Economy By Isaac MacMillen Increased state control in response to economic turmoil is nothing new. After the First World War, the resultant economic depression in Europe was used as a springboard by both Germany and Italy to embrace a fascist form of […]

On: 02/18/2009 09:43:31 In: Barack Obama By Carter Clews “When we played our charade,We were like children posing,Playing at games, acting out names,Guessing the parts we played.”—Johnny Mercer, Charade. Barack Obama may have just set a world record for tossing in the towel in a game of […]

On: 02/12/2009 09:54:32 In: Economy Word emanating from Capitol Hill is that Congressional Democratic leaders, while promising transparency and bipartisanship in government, have essentially shut Republicans out of the debate over the so-called “stimulus” bill. And the package now totals some $789 billion, or $1.1 trillion […]