by Jane Richey | Nov 2, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The number of American workers collecting federal disability insurance benefits hit yet another record high in October, according to the Social Security Administration. This month 8,803,335 disabled workers are collecting benefits, up from the previous record of...
by Jane Richey | Nov 2, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
President Obama has a new booklet—a glossy, 20-page spread called “The New Economic Patriotism: A Plan for Jobs and Middle-Class Security.” The title is completely Orwellian, since the plan—which is nothing new—would actually kill jobs, harming the middle class. As...
by Jane Richey | Nov 2, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
Republican Sen. James Inhofe says the Environmental Protection Agency has delayed action or “punted” on numerous regulations while President Obama tries to “earn votes” for a second term. The Oklahoma senator and ranking Republican on the chamber’s Committee on...
by Jane Richey | Nov 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
Heritage Foundation: …oil production on federal lands has decreased between fiscal 2010 and fiscal 2011 by 11 percent. Natural gas production has decreased by 6 percent in the same one-year span. It is down nearly 27 percent from fiscal 2009. Meanwhile, oil and gas...
by Jane Richey | Nov 2, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The federal government spent $27 million teaching Moroccans how to make pottery, a project that yielded less than stellar results, according to Sen. Tom Coburn’s recently released Waste Book 2012. Some pottery students showed up just to get the free lunches, and one...
