by Jane Richey | Jul 18, 2013 | Agenda 21
The Obama administration is taking several steps Thursday that officials say will advance the energy efficiency portion of the White House climate change plan unveiled in late June. The Environmental Protection Agency will announce new efforts to help businesses cut...
by Jane Richey | Jul 18, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded a $149,074 grant to study food shopping patterns that may form the basis of future shopping “interventions.” The USDA award went to the University of Kentucky in April for the study titled, “Adolescent and...
by Jane Richey | Jul 18, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Tex.) told Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke at a hearihg Wednesday that his power to move markets is “not healthy” for the U.S. economy, while Bernanke blamed inaction in Congress for the nation’s...
by Jane Richey | Jul 18, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
IRS employees were ordered by their superiors–including Lois Lerner who pleaded the 5th Amendment against self-incrimination rather than testify in Congress–to send certain Tea Party tax-exemption applications to the office of the IRS’s Chief...
by Jane Richey | Jul 18, 2013 | Health Care
Online magazine U.S. News and World Report claims there are “10 Good Things About Obamacare,” but one expert says “good” remains to be seen – and that it’s certainly not free. “There’s no such thing as a free lunch,” Chris Jacobs of The Heritage...
