by Jane Richey | Jun 20, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
It’s an election year, and the Democrats are scrambling to distract voters from the failed policies of the liberal Washington trio of President Obama, Sen. Harry Reid, and Rep. Nancy Pelosi. One of the most recent attempted diversions is the invention of a...
by Jane Richey | Jun 19, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Capitol Hill Republicans say yet another environmental impact study of the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline is unwarranted and nothing more than a stall tactic by the Obama administration that threatens the project. The State Department announced Friday it had...
by Jane Richey | Jun 19, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
A growing number of Senate Democrats are signaling they are not prepared to raise taxes on anyone in the weak economy unless Congress approves a grand bargain to reduce the deficit. At least seven Democratic senators have declined to rule out supporting a temporary...
by Jane Richey | Jun 19, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
Senate Republicans want to know if the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has any legal standing to demand donor information from various Tea Party and conservative groups, which the IRS apparently is pursuing. “We remain concerned that the IRS is requesting the names of...
by Jane Richey | Jun 19, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Jamie Dimon, the president and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, told the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee last week that his bank took Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds back in 2008 only “because we were asked to” by the Treasury Secretary. Dimon got...
