ALG's Daily Grind - The Boehner Rule

April 15, 2013

The Boehner Rule

One struggles to find a single vote of significance — legislation that became law — that House Republicans did not need Democrats in order to pass.

ALG in the News: EPA Nominee Gina McCarthy Under Fire for Approving Dangerous, Exploding Chemical for Cars

ALG counsel Nathan Mehrens on Fox News: "[Mercedes] simulated head-on collisions and about two-thirds of their simulations resulted in fires [...] It's so toxic that even a small amount of it, if it got in contact with say, a portion of your hand, could be deadly in certain circumstances."

Greedy green land grabbers

On Sunday, February 28, 2010, armed troops evicted villagers in Uganda's Mubende district, to make way for a tree plantation.

Investors.com: North Dakota Builds A Refinery, First In The U.S. Since '76

"America's future as the global fossil-fuel king is a reality while Barack Obama's green economy is simply a fantasy. Fracking on nonfederal land has turned the U.S. into the top petroleum-producing country in the world, having passed Saudi Arabia in late 2012."

ALG's Daily Grind - Obama's attempts to expand his power

April 12, 2013

Obama's attempts to expand his power

Senate report: Courts strike down numerous Obama power grabs, including to attach a GPS to one's car and following their every movement without having any evidence that the person has committed a crime.

Cartoon: Wreak Havoc

The state-run media sits by idly while this tin-pot leader wreaks havoc on the populace…

Conservatives Seek Leadership to Cure Malaise

Reflections on the passing of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher highlight the burnout, some would call malaise, inflicting many American conservatives today. 

Washington Examiner: EPA nominee promoted questionable coolant made by company with Obama ties

"Tests by Mercedes-Benz engineers last year found that when HFO-1234yf came in contact with a car's hot engine, it burst into flames."

ALG's Daily Grind - The GOP's real grassroots problem

April 9, 2013

The GOP's real grassroots problem

The conservative base of the Republican party has become increasingly distrustful of the party's leadership in Washington, D.C. And who could blame them?

Cartoon: Thatcher

The Iron Lady helped take out the Iron Curtain.

Is Obamacare at least partially behind last month's disastrous job creation numbers?

At least one prominent traditionally pro-Obama economic analyst, Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody's Analytics, seems to think so.

Video: Margaret Thatcher on socialism

"They would rather have the poor poorer, provided the rich were less rich."

ALG's Daily Grind - Obama's jobless recovery

April 10, 2013

Obama's jobless recovery

The U.S. economy created only 88,000 jobs in March, well below the 130,000 total needed to keep pace with population growth.

Car loans you can't afford the next subprime

ALG's Wilson: "It's just debt for debt's sake, not to help build future production or earnings, but to simply fuel consumption."

Cut fingers, cancer, bats and birds

A May 2012 sighting of an endangered Indiana brown bat in a northern Georgia tree has triggered federal regulations requiring that state road projects not "harm, kill or harass" bats.

Washington Post: For insurance exchanges, states need 'navigators' — and hiring them is a huge task

States will need to hire tens of thousands of "navigators" just to figure out how to implement Obamacare's insurance exchanges.

ALG's Daily Grind - IMF calls on U.S. to institute $500 billion carbon tax

April 3, 2013

IMF calls on U.S. to institute $500 billion carbon tax

By not taxing energy, we are subsidizing it, says the international agency the U.S. funds, and in doing so "lead[ing] to overconsumption of energy, which aggravates environmental problems, such as pollution and climate change."

Important questions for Obama nominees

Sally Jewell, Ernest Moniz, and Gina McCarthy are clearly all "team players" in a decidedly anti-fossil fuels administration.

NBC News: How the US oil, gas boom could shake up global order

"[A] n increasing number of experts believe the U.S. could achieve energy independence by the end of the decade – realizing a dream born during the gas crisis of 1973."