by Jane Richey | Dec 20, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
While lawmakers from both parties squabble over tax rates, a fiscal crisis is looming on the horizon. Entitlement programs — Social Security and Medicare to be precise — have unfunded obligations of $48 trillion. By comparison, the fiscal cliff carries a price tag of...
by Jane Richey | Dec 20, 2012 | Agenda 21
President Obama has identified climate change as one of his top three priorities in his second term after coming under fire from environmentalists for giving the issue short shrift during the campaign. The president, in an interview for TIME’s Person of the Year...
by Jane Richey | Dec 19, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
The Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Inspector General says it will investigate whether EPA officials — including Administrator Lisa Jackson — used alias email accounts to conduct official government business, thereby shielding those...
by Jane Richey | Dec 19, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
As of Oct. 31, the U.S. government owed $5,482,200,000,000 to foreign interests, according to the Treasury. That was up from $5,476,200,000 as of Sept. 30. The foreign debt of the U.S. government equaled $47,482 for each of the 115,459,000 full-time workers (including...
by Jane Richey | Dec 18, 2012 | Voting Issues
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who halted photo ID laws in South Carolina and Texas before the November election, suggested on Tuesday in Boston that the United States should consider adopting “automatic” voter registration. This essentially would mean that...
