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Health Insurance Mandates Could Leave Many Worse Off:  Americans seem to like the idea of broadening health insurance coverage, but they may not want to be forced to buy it. With health care costs high and rising, such government mandates would make many people worse off.

A Clear-Eyed View of the Obama Regime:  Whether by ignorance or design, the first ten months of the Obama Administration have put the very security and prosperity of America in grave jeopardy. This is not mere hyperbole, nor is this conclusion reached lightly. Rather, it comes from an in-depth analysis of those policies implemented by what can only be described upon a thoughtful inquiry as a regime.

VIDEO:  Tom Coburn talks Health Care.

The Real Plot Against Conservative Speech:  Rush Limbaugh, at least for now, will not fulfill his dream of owning an NFL team. That great arbiter of acceptable public discourse, Al Sharpton, claims at least partial responsibility. Accusations that Limbaugh had made racially charged remarks, such as that slavery was not all bad, sealed his fate.

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No One to Blame, President Obama:  Since his election last November, even before taking office in January, Barack Obama has reshaped the office of the Presidency into the image he envisioned when beginning his quest for the Oval Office.

A "True American?":  Sometimes it's tough to tell who plays for America and who plays for … well, the other guys. Take Mark Lloyd – the Federal Communications Commission "diversity czar" who has expressed starstruck support for Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, and yet utter contempt for the U.S. First Amendment. (H/T FitsNews)

The "Fairness Police":  Imagine a world in which government-owned newspapers delivered sanitized, pro-bureaucratic talking points approved by government censors for "fairness." Now, imagine a world in which talk radio and the new media -- two outlets that Americans have been turning to in record numbers to escape the barrage of sanitized, pro-bureaucratic "news" -- were also under Big Brother's "regulatory" thumb.

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Into the Abyss
With the world threatening to dump its dollar assets, has America reached the tipping point of decline?

The "Fairness" Police
Imagine a world in which all of these news outlets faced fines and the threat of being shut down if they failed to subscribe to the government's definition of "balanced" coverage.

Too Hot Not To Note: The Cost of Corporate Communism
A host from a morning show on MSNBC, Dylan Ratigan, comments on the current health care takeover and how it looks more like something that would have been created by the former Soviet Union.

"Mark Lloyd is a menace to the freedom of expression and the right

of the American people to choose which content they want to listen

to through in a competitive marketplace."—ALG President Bill Wilson

September 29th, 2009, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today called upon the Obama Administration to dismiss Federal Communications Commission (FCC) "Diversity Czar," Mark Lloyd, because "his extreme views on government control over media outlets endangers a renaissance of media in this, the information age."

"Mark Lloyd is an enemy of freedom, the Constitution, and free speech," said Wilson, adding, "and he has no place in a position of power to curtail that freedom."

Lloyd was appointed on August 4th to be Associate General Counsel and Chief Diversity Officer of the FCC.

In 2007, Lloyd helped co-author a report by the Center for American Progress, "The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio," where it is written, "The disparities between conservative and progressive programming reflects the absence of localism in American radio markets."  This disparity, the paper argues, arises from "the consolidation of ownership in radio stations and the corresponding dominance of syndicated programming…"

"This is the so-called 'Fairness Doctrine' by other means," said Wilson.  "If Lloyd has his way, the American people will be subjected to a radical shift in the radio programming they enjoy, no longer based on ad sales, but by local boards that will act as licensors—and, by extension, censors—for radio stations.  That is where content will be determined."

The Center for American Progress report goes on to advocate for the restoration of local and national caps on the ownership of commercial radio stations, greater power for local boards to control radio licensing, and to a requirement that commercial owners who fail to abide by "enforceable" public interest obligations to pay a fine to support public broadcasting.

"Lloyd would make his icon Hugo Chavez proud," said Wilson, citing the fact that Chavez has shut nearly every freely owned media outlet in Venezuela. In July, the Venezuelan National Assembly at Chavez's amended the Telecommunications Law to limit the "concentration" of private radio and television ownership, and the government also regulates the use of the public airwaves, which has resulted in the closure of many privately-owned radio stations that were allegedly operating without a "valid" license.

Wilson noted that Lloyd had in the past praised Chavez's rise to power.  In a panel on "media reform" after speaking on the use of radio as a propaganda tool by the state of Rwanda during the conflict between the Tutsis and the Hutus, Lloyd said, "In Venezuela Chavez really had an incredible revolution, a democratic revolution" wherein "Chavez began to take very seriously media in his country."

"Mark Lloyd is a menace to the freedom of expression and the right of the American people to choose which content they want to listen to through in a competitive marketplace," said Wilson, adding, "But under Lloyd, the American people could be living in a world without Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, or many other great voices who dare to challenge the establishment."

Attachments:

Mark Lloyd, FCC Diversity Czar, ALG Appointment Alert, September 2009.

Enough to Make Your Blood Boil
It turns out that Washington's bureaucrats whose sole job it is to run up everyone else's taxes by saddling us all with oppressive regulations and endless reams of red tape is getting paid more.

Honduras: A Victory for Term Limits – and Democracy
Mr. Zelaya swore to uphold Article 239 when he took his oath of office. But, that was before he became enamored of Hugo Chavez.

Clews – Todd Report
ALG News Executive Editor discusses the colorful history of Mr. Cass Sunstein who is the Obama nominee for the head of regulation.

ALG in the News: Radio Free Rush
Fox affiliate out of Philadelphia features Liberty Features writer Ellen Sauerbrey's article on the possible future of talk radio.