On: 01/09/2009 11:00:27 In: Big Labor As ALG News reported on Monday, January 5th, a request has been filed with Labor Secrtary Elaine Chao to launch a formal investigation of possible ERISA violations by a coalition of union officials, environmentalists, and thirteen state government officials. For the […]

On: 01/02/2009 09:40:13 In: Corruption By Robert Romano “If men were angels, we would have no need for laws or limits; no enduring imperatives to protect the weak and proscribe the strong. If men were angels, power to could be entrusted to the few and the many would […]

On: 01/28/2009 10:19:20 In: Monetary Policy ALG Editor’s Note: As ALG News has reported repeatedly over the past many months, and as noted by the following featured commentary from Bloomberg’s Caroline Baum, government is purporting to solve the very problems it helped to create with the very same policies that […]

On: 01/22/2009 10:02:46 In: Capitol South By William Warren ALG Editor’s Note: “Capitol South” is a weekly comic strip created by William Warren and distributed by the Liberty Features Syndicate. “Capitol South” follows the lives of staffers on Capitol Hill and the shenanigans of day to day […]

On: 01/15/2009 11:32:03 In: Economy By Howie Rich It’s a typical Washington elixir. When bad press for multi-billion dollar bailouts has got you down, there’s nothing quite like a government program “for the children” to put things right again – particularly when the new President needs […]

On: 01/09/2009 10:59:41 In: Corruption By Robert Romano As the recent disclosure of scandals by Bill Richardson, Hillary Clinton, and Rod Blagojevich illustrate, pay-to-play abuses—campaign and other contributions that shape the terms of government contracts, earmarks, job hiring and appointments—are a deepening problem in American politics. They fall […]

On: 01/02/2009 09:39:31 In: Big Labor By Robert Romano It appears that in the eleventh hour of Janet Napolitano’s reign as the Democratic Governor of Arizona, the lady who is being tapped be President-elect Barack Obama’s Homeland Security Secretary—is making certain to assure the financial security those who padded […]

On: 01/27/2009 10:18:26 In: Stop ACORN! By William Warren What do $21 million worth of sod, $650 million in digital TV coupons, and $4.19 billion to the notoriously corrupt ACORN conspiracy have to do with stimulating the economy? Most people would agree: Absolutely nothing. Nevertheless, Congressional Democrats’ […]

On: 01/22/2009 10:02:25 In: Barack Obama By Robert Romano Although President Barack Obama has cast himself as a uniter who will usher in a bipartisan era, he may be little more than a rubber stamp for a Congress that is dominated by one-party control—his Party. Only, ironically enough, it […]

On: 01/15/2009 11:31:23 In: Economy By Isaac MacMillen It appears the House Republican Conference has strongly countered the Obama-Reid-Pelosi $825 billion debt stimulus with a proposal of their own—in this case, a true economic stimulus package. It’s a plan that will could halt the current cascade […]