by Jane Richey | Mar 5, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
More than three years into the gas-drilling boom that’s produced thousands of new wells, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the state of Pennsylvania are tussling over regulation of the Marcellus Shale, the vast underground rock formation that holds...
by Jane Richey | Mar 5, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Freshman Rep. Jeff Denham (R-Calif.) has spent his first term trying to shrink the size of government — literally. As chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management, he was behind...
by Jane Richey | Mar 5, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Congressional, military and community leaders are building their case to convince the Air Force to halt its planned closure of the 9-11th Air Lift Wing and sharp reductions at the 171st Air National Guard in Pittsburgh. Members of the Congressional delegation from...
by Jane Richey | Mar 5, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
A bad piece of legislation is about to be reauthorized, empowering bureaucrats and tort lawyers and poisoning relations between women and men. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) could be fixed, but Senate Democrats will not hear of it. Vice President Joe Biden...
by Jane Richey | Mar 5, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
For several hundred years, a consensus developed in Western nations that economic growth – human progress – is a good thing. But now economic growth is under attack. Economic growth has meant more jobs, higher incomes, more wealth and all the good things that become...
