by Jane Richey | Apr 7, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
In October 2010, on the eve of the Islamic revolution that the media fancies as “the Arab Spring,” the Supreme Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood called for jihad against the United States. You might think that this all but unnoticed bombshell would be of some importance...
by Jane Richey | Apr 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
America is at a crossroads. Today’s jobs report shows that two years into recovery the U.S. economy is still woefully underperforming, adding only 120,000 new jobs in March, about half the rate of job growth of the previous three months which were, themselves,...
by Jane Richey | Apr 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Hundreds of Penn State students stormed the state’s capital city in hopes of restoring state funding to their university. Gov. Tom Corbett proposed cutting the university’s state funding by 30 percent for the second consecutive year. The proposed cut for...
by Jane Richey | Apr 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The economy added 120,000 jobs in March, well below what economists had predicted, while the unemployment rate ticked down slightly to 8.2 percent. The number is nearly half the 210,000 expected and ends the streak of three straight months in which the economy added...
by Jane Richey | Apr 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Green groups are suing the Environmental Protection Agency to force completion of long-planned national regulations to govern disposal of so-called coal ash, a waste product from power plants. “In the absence of national standards requiring safe disposal, coal ash has...
by Jane Richey | Apr 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The Energy Department said Thursday it expects to begin tentatively approving new taxpayer-backed loans for renewable energy projects in the coming months. The announcement comes about seven months after Solyndra, the California solar firm that received a $535 million...