by Jane Richey | Mar 23, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that Obamacare facilitates the type of “liberation” that the “Founders had in mind” because it allows you to quit your job and become a “photographer,” a “writer,” a “musician”–or “whatever.” “As you...
by Jane Richey | Mar 23, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Two years ago today, President Barack Obama signed into law Obamacare, a 2,700-page bill that will radically alter America’s health care system and wreak havoc on medical costs, quality of care, and fundamental rights in ways that are beyond the scope of our...
by Jane Richey | Mar 23, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan warned lawmakers today of potentially dire ramifications if the budget blueprint put forth earlier this week by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., were to become law. “We could see disastrous consequences for America’s children...
by Jane Richey | Mar 23, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
A major U.S. city is banning the private sector from donating food to homeless shelters, as a public policy organization says the city and its leaders have replaced common sense with political correctness. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s (D) administration is...
by Jane Richey | Mar 23, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Sens. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chair of the Senate Environment Committee, had a heated exchange Thursday over President Barack Obama’s energy policy during a hearing on the EPA’s FY2012 budget request. Inhofe began his opening statement...
by Jane Richey | Mar 22, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) is asking the Senate to weigh in on a contentious union-election rule proposed by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). In a letter sent Wednesday to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader...
