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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

On: 07/16/2008 16:21:28 In: Government Transparency Dave Barry is right: You really can’t make this stuff up. So, here, straight from the unimpeachable scribes at the formerly “Free State’s” AP Bureau is the full story – believe it or not, Mr. Ripley: “The House of Delegates has approved a bill to study whether quiet […]

On: 07/16/2008 14:21:15 In: Fiscal Responsibility As the dinosaur era came to a close, with food supplies dwindling, the largest dinosaurs were the first to perish. It was those that were smaller, and could adapt better to a radically changing environment, that survived. And so it is […]

On: 07/29/2008 17:40:05 In: Taxes The next time a politician tells you to conserve something, be it water, gasoline, electricity – or whatever else they’re bloviating about – be sure to ask, “How much will it cost me?”In an effort to combat the state’s water shortage, […]

On: 07/20/2008 17:18:30 In: Barack Obama At first blush, Barack Obama’s (D-IL) latest attack on his multi-million-member Enemies’ List looks like nothing more than the usual hard left assault on the working-class masses and their middle-class morality. But, if you dig a little deeper, it’s far more […]

On: 07/20/2008 14:23:38 In: Fiscal Responsibility ALG News was not surprised to discover that nearly half of purchases made using government credit cards – dubiously named “SmartPay” cards – were improper according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit. The stated purpose for the cards was […]

On: 07/16/2008 22:25:16 In: New York News Governor Spitzer’s fall from grace may have unleashed a chain reaction wherein all of Spitzer’s favored tools of State-coercion are finally unraveling like a cheap suit. On Monday, New York State Governor Paterson authorized (Editor’s note: Politicalese for “ordered”) State Attorney […]