by Jane Richey | May 15, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Defense contractors have slowed hiring. Tax advisers are warning firms not to count on favorite breaks. And hospitals are scouring their books for ways to cut costs. Across the U.S. economy, anxiety is rising about the potential for widespread disruptions after the...
by Jane Richey | May 15, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
A federal judge ruled Monday that a contentious union election rule proposed by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is “invalid.” In an 18-page memorandum opinion, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg struck the regulation down, saying the labor board only had two...
by Jane Richey | May 14, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
It has been over three years (1,111 days to be precise) since the U.S. Senate last passed a budget. The last time Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) fulfilled his legal responsibility, Conan was still on NBC, Tea Parties hadn’t come together and the iPad hadn’t...
by Jane Richey | May 14, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The Green River Formation, a largely vacant area of mostly federal land that covers the territory where Colorado, Utah and Wyoming come together, contains about as much recoverable oil as all the rest the world’s proven reserves combined, an auditor from the...
by Jane Richey | May 13, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Readers who heed what the media says would have thought the tea party bitter clingers were dead, so this week’s election results must have seemed to them like the attack of the zombies. The zombies made their appearance known in Wisconsin, Indiana, and Utah....
by Jane Richey | May 13, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
Maya Wiley of the Center for Social Inclusion, whose statements were distributed at a meeting of the House Democratic Caucus, cynically called conservative messages “racially coded … right-wing rhetoric has dominated debates of racial justice – undermining efforts to...