07.01.2008

Big Government Pipe Dreams

On: 07/20/2008 17:32:43 In: Fiscal Responsibility In the 19th century, the phrase “pipe dream” was used to describe the “visions” opium smokers experienced while under the influence. Today, it is equally appropriate to use it in reference to Big Government advocates, who must be smoking something to […]

07.01.2008

Onward, Into the Abyss!

On: 07/20/2008 14:34:03 In: Fiscal Responsibility What would you do if you were swimming, and suddenly you were swept under the waves? You’d probably try to swim back to the surface.In H.G. Wells’ classic story, “In the Abyss,” Elstead, a sailor, is the pilot of an experimental, spherical vehicle that […]

07.01.2008

Resisting the Sirens Song

On: 07/17/2008 10:43:14 In: Economy You heard it here first from ALG News – and now like a systemic infection the ruinous moratorium foreclosure movement is spreading nationwide. Fortunately, one State governor is going against the sirens’ song with the fortitude of Odysseus by threatening to veto any attempted deferment of foreclosures. Though the Minnesota […]

07.01.2008

Socialized Medicine is Less Efficient, More Expensive

On: 07/16/2008 16:35:38 In: Health Care A compelling – and somewhat shocking – new report has revealed that taxpayer-funded universal healthcare could wind up being more costly and less efficient than its private sector alternatives. What makes the report compelling is that it comes at a time […]

07.01.2008

Your Tax Dollars at Play

On: 07/16/2008 14:41:59 In: Fiscal Responsibility If you’re curious about how your hard earned tax dollars are being spent, take one look at this “Curious Kitty” , brought to you by our friends at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, with the following caption: “Cats and kittens are […]

07.01.2008

Senate Subprime Subterfuge

On: 07/15/2008 11:42:16 In: Economy Senate Democrats to Bail Out International Financial Industry The Senate Democrats are at it again, pretending to help out the little guy by padding the pockets of their favored interest groups, this time with the Foreclosure Prevention Act , a $4 billion direct subsidy to a non-general Treasury […]

07.01.2008

Robbing the Blind

On: 07/30/2008 12:11:31 In: Fiscal Responsibility What happens when you combine pork-barrel spending politicians with unregulated funds? New York City residents are learning the hard way that, when you don’t give a politician funding for their favored projects, they may just find ways to get that money […]

07.01.2008

While Rome Burns

On: 07/20/2008 17:22:29 In: Fiscal Responsibility ALG Perspective: With all of the problems facing the nation today, the House takes time to honor professional wrestling? What a tremendous waste of taxpayers’ time and money to honor a wrestler best known for holding his hands up while kneeling […]

07.01.2008

Wall Street Whitewash

On: 07/20/2008 14:28:52 In: Economy Under the old system of the British Crown, a well-known maxim was that “The King can do no wrong.” If a bad decision was made, it was the result of poor advisors, since constitutionally the monarch could not act without prior […]

07.01.2008

All Rise Kangaroo Court is Now in Session

On: 07/17/2008 10:35:34 In: First Amendment “There are four characteristics which brand a country unmistakably as a dictatorship: one-party rule- executions without trial or with a mock trial, for political offenses- the nationalization or expropriation of private property- and censorship. A country guilty of these outrages forfeits […]

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