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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]