by Jane Richey | Sep 17, 2013 | Education Issues, Politics
William Penn, Michigan State University professor of creative writing, greeted his first day of class with an anti-Republican rant. Campus Reform, a project of the Arlington, Va.-based Leadership Institute, has a video featuring the professor telling his students that...
by Jane Richey | Sep 17, 2013 | Free Markets
The national average price of gasoline will surpass $3.00 a gallon Tuesday for the 1,000th consecutive day — the longest stretch above $3.00 on record, according to the American Automobile Association (AAA). “Paying less than $3.00 per gallon for gasoline may be...
by Jane Richey | Sep 17, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
A record 23,116,928 American households were enrolled in the federal government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—AKA food stamps—during the month of June, according to data released this month by the Department of Agriculture. That outnumbers the...
by Jane Richey | Sep 17, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
A record 23,116,928 American households were enrolled in the federal government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—AKA food stamps—during the month of June, according to data released this month by the Department of Agriculture. That outnumbers the...
by Jane Richey | Sep 17, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
The Congressional Budget Office released its 2013 long-term budget outlook on Tuesday, stating that “a large and continually growing federal debt …would increase the probability of a fiscal crisis for the United States.” The report says under current...