On: 03/23/2010 09:37:25 In: Health Care By Michael Swartz It was a battle which began last spring and it took the side of right nearly a year to fall despite the odds against it. As I write this, the nationalization of one-sixth of the nation’s economy and […]

On: 03/17/2010 09:54:25 In: Health Care ALG Editor’s Note: In the following featured editorial from the Cincinnati Enquirer , the board there lays waste to the “disgusting process” of enacting ObamaCare: Arrogant approach to health care America’s robust discussion of health care reform during the past year has been beneficial in many ways, giving the public […]

On: 03/11/2010 09:52:39 In: Property Rights By Michael Swartz The use and abuse of the Antiquities Act, legislation which dates back to the time of Teddy Roosevelt, is nothing new. While the bulk of the national monuments so created came in the first few decades after the […]

On: 03/05/2010 09:42:25 In: Conservative Movement By David Bozeman Columnist Kathleen Parker recently called tea partiers “the noisiest sector of the GOP.” She chided members of the movement for attacking newly elected Massachusetts senator Scott Brown, who voted with Democrats in supporting a cloture motion on their […]

On: 03/01/2010 09:24:45 In: Conservative Movement By Dave Cribbin With the election of Scott Brown to the Senate in Massachusetts, Internet-enabled voters have given the political parties and their machine politicians the same bruising that a whole host of formerly successful business models have received, while barely […]

On: 03/26/2010 09:51:19 In: Appointments By Rick Manning He’s back. Like a bad penny, Richard Trumka’s and Andy Stern’s heart throb, Craig Becker is back, and it is bad news for America. Yes, Barack Obama has threatened to give Craig Becker, the labor union lawyer apologist, not the […]

On: 03/22/2010 10:03:51 In: Health Care The die has been cast. Last night, despite overwhelming opposition by the American people to the government taking over the nation’s entire health care system, the House of Representatives voted 219 to 212 to do just that, adopting the Senate version […]

On: 03/16/2010 10:03:33 In: Fiscal Responsibility By Bill Wilson “A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.”—Alexander Hamilton. Not even Alexander Hamilton would support today’s national debt. When the nation’s system of perpetual, permanent debt was enacted, it provided, according to American Public University’s History Central , “that the […]

On: 03/11/2010 09:52:01 In: Big Labor ALG Editor’s Note: In the following featured story from the Washington Times , ALG’s own Nathan Mehrens is asked about how the Obama administration has rolled back union transparency rules.     Bush’s Union Transparency Rules Retracted Under Obama By Chuck Neubauer The Obama administration promised increased transparency in government […]

On: 03/05/2010 09:41:59 In: Fiscal Responsibility ALG Editor’s Note: In the following featured oped from the Wall Street Journal , Congressmen Jeb Hensarling and Mike Pence make the case for their Constitutional Spending Limit Amendment: Time for a Spending Cap With Teeth By JEB HENSARLING AND MIKE PENCE Fiscal storm clouds are upon us. In five years, […]