by Jane Richey | Feb 11, 2013 | Health Care
As the state moves to expand healthcare coverage to millions of Californians under President Obama’s healthcare law, it faces a major obstacle: There aren’t enough doctors to treat a crush of newly insured patients. Some lawmakers want to fill the gap by...
by Jane Richey | Feb 11, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO), 35 percent of major federal regulations – those with at least $100 billion in annual economic impact – were issued without a public notice from 2003 to 2010. The GAO also said that 44 percent of non-major...
by Jane Richey | Feb 11, 2013 | Agenda 21
A federal advisory committee appointed by the Obama administration to produce a report on climate change says that if Earth’s climate were still “primarily controlled by natural factors”—rather than by man-made global warming—then the next ice age would occur within...
by Jane Richey | Feb 10, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
The president of the American Federation of Government Employees says a one-percent increase is “absolutely unconscionable.” The head of the largest federal employee union said Saturday that President Obama’s proposal to increase pay for federal...
by Jane Richey | Feb 10, 2013 | Agenda 21, Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
Coal miners and coal executives alike are upset at the recent push for environmental regulations that will cripple, if not put an end, to the entire coal mining industry. All this in the name of clean energy, which has yet to be proven to be sustainable and a viable...