12.31.2010

Natural Gas Development Should be Considered as an Alternative to Team Obama’s “Renewable” Agenda

On: 01/03/2011 08:49:57 In: Energy Crisis, Global Warming Fraud, and the Environment By Kevin Mooney With the demise of “cap and trade” legislation, the Obama Administration has shrewdly pivoted in the direction of renewable mandates that emphasize solar and wind technology as a sop to green groups. Looking ahead, in 2011, newly elected Republican lawmakers […]

12.31.2010

Showing the Way On Spending Cuts

On: 01/28/2011 09:15:42 In: Fiscal Responsibility ALG Editor’s Note: In the following featured column from RealClearMarkets , Diana Furchgott-Roth makes the case for spending cuts, even if Barack Obama won’t: By Diana Furchtgott-Roth WASHINGTON-President Obama’s State of the Union address demonstrated anew that although he pays lip service to smaller government, less regulation, and […]

12.31.2010

Obama administration focused more on ‘green’ part of ‘green jobs’ rhetoric

On: 01/24/2011 08:59:05 In: Energy Crisis, Global Warming Fraud, and the Environment ALG Editor’s Note: In the following featured story from the Daily Caller’s Matthew Boyle , ALG Communications Director Rick Manning calls for an end to federal restrictions on oil drilling, refining, and coal production: By Matthew Boyle When it comes to President Barack Obama’s “green jobs” push, the administration may be more interested in […]

12.31.2010

Portugal’s Pretended Payment

On: 01/18/2011 08:56:19 In: Economy By Bill Wilson When he wrote the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith warned against the “pretended payment” of sovereign debt, the creation of new money as a means of settling the debt. He wrote, “The raising of the denomination of the coin has […]

12.31.2010

The tale of two Americas

On: 01/12/2011 09:13:49 In: Uncategorized By Rick Manning John Edwards ran his ill-fated presidential campaign around the theme that there are “two Americas,” one that is wealthy and powerful, and the other that is poor and weak. Events that have occurred since the Tucson shooting tragedy have revealed […]

12.31.2010

2011–A Fiscal Reckoning That Cannot Be Avoided

On: 01/06/2011 09:19:00 In: Economy By Howard Rich While the extension of Bush-era tax cuts dominated headlines during the recently-concluded lame duck session of Congress, the coming year will bring with it a renewed focus on public debt — whether policymakers like it or not. A […]

12.31.2010

Happy New Year!

On: 01/01/2011 12:20:53 In: Uncategorized  

12.31.2010

Government’s “Other” Gluttony

On: 01/27/2011 09:43:09 In: Uncategorized By Howard Rich Over the last decade, America’s leaders chose to address the unsustainable growth of an already bloated federal government by spending unprecedented amounts of borrowed money. First there was George W. Bush’s “compassionate conservatism,” a wholesale abandonment of the Republican view […]

12.31.2010

DeMint Proposes Balanced Budget Amendment

On: 01/21/2011 09:46:53 In: Fiscal Responsibility By Robert Romano In a recent email to supporters , Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) proposed tying an upcoming vote to raise the $14.294 trillion national debt ceiling to a balanced budget amendment. Not a bad idea. After all, why tie an increase in the debt ceiling to a single […]

12.31.2010

“The Week Ahead” Looks At The Attempt To Repeal ObamaCare

On: 01/18/2011 08:55:48 In: Health Care Video by Frank McCaffrey

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