by Jane Richey | Jul 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The Labor Department said Friday that the unemployment rate was unchanged at 8.2 percent. The economy has added just 75,000 jobs a month in the April-June quarter. That’s one-third of 226,000 a month created in the first quarter. Job creation is also trailing...
by Jane Richey | Jul 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
Several states say they will reject ObamaCare’s expansion of Medicaid, and one expert on the law believes even more states will follow suit. States that are saying ‘no’ to expansion include Wisconsin, Iowa, Louisiana and Florida, which is also...
by Jane Richey | Jul 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest of New York City temporarily halted any arrests or detentions that would take place under the terms of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which took effect on July 1. In a 68-page opinion, Judge Forrest wrote, while...
by Jane Richey | Jul 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
From R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.: Thanks, however, to Professor E. Donald Elliott of the Yale Law School I had a translator at my side, and I shall now hand down my judgment of the Court’s decision on Obamacare, which all sensible Americans have abstained from...
by Jane Richey | Jul 5, 2012 | Uncategorized
A geothermal energy company with a $98.5 million loan guarantee from the Obama administration for an alternative energy project in Nevada — which received hearty endorsements from Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid — faces financial...