by Jane Richey | May 23, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Across the Washington area last week, young workers from Europe arrived in droves, heading for jobs at community swimming pools. Lugging duffel bags, they filled out forms, picked up safety gear and chatted in a variety of Slavic languages, eager to plunge into a...
by Jane Richey | May 23, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Senate Republicans criticized the Obama administration Tuesday for paying a public-relations firm $20 million to highlight part of President Obama’s healthcare law. A Health and Human Services (HHS) official confirmed Monday that the department had signed a...
by Jane Richey | May 23, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
What would happen if a deadlocked Congress did nothing? If the expiring Bush tax rates are allowed to lapse and the automatic spending cuts kick in next year, it could hurl the U.S. economy back into a recession, the Congressional Budget Office warned in a report...
by Jane Richey | May 22, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
While the Obama Administration is lollygagging regarding opening federal lands to oil and gas development, its Interior Department has been active in approving renewable projects on federal lands. As part of President Obama’s alleged “all-of-the-above” energy...
by Jane Richey | May 22, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Tax credits in President Obama’s healthcare law aren’t big enough to prompt small businesses to start offering healthcare benefits, the Government Accountability Office said Monday. Fewer businesses than expected have been taking the tax credit. The...
by Jane Richey | May 22, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
The Philadelphia Parks and Recreation Department filed a notice with the city’s records commissioner of its intention to follow through with the ban on mass outdoor food distribution to the homeless. In addition to the ban on using parkland for feedings, the city’s...
