by Jane Richey | Jan 14, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Health Care
In their first three months of operation, the federal and state health-insurance marketplaces created under the Affordable Care Act—AKA Obamacare–have signed up 5,572,305 people who qualify to get federal funding for their health care, either through Medicaid or...
by Jane Richey | Jan 14, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Health Care
Government figures released Monday show that more than 81,000 Pennsylvanians have enrolled under the federal health care law, a sharp increase from the 11,800 who were signed up at the end of November. The Obama administration now says that more than 2 million...
by Jane Richey | Jan 14, 2014 | Agenda 21
A project that was supposed to prove the Environmental Protection Agency’s rules for new coal plants can work has suffered a serious setback. The Texas Clean Energy Project has just lost the buyer of its electricity, a possible death blow to a project already beset by...
by Jane Richey | Jan 14, 2014 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Congressional leaders say they have agreed on a roughly $1 trillion spending bill that will fund the U.S. government through the end of the 2014 budget year. Shaking off three years of a bitter partisan freeze, Democratic and Republican negotiators unveiled the $1.012...
by Jane Richey | Jan 13, 2014 | Free Markets
A new report commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute stated that the United States, in partnership with Canada, has the energy resources to make the country completely independent of outside sources for liquid fuel supplies by 2024.Calling the state of the...