by Jane Richey | Mar 8, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
Lawmakers who want to seize control of federal lands are pushing a legal battle they insist is winnable despite multiple warnings their effort is highly unconstitutional and almost sure to fail in court. Utah is poised to become the first state to pass a package of...
by Jane Richey | Mar 8, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Wind farms in the Pacific Northwest — built with government subsidies and maintained with tax credits for every megawatt produced — are now getting paid to shut down as the federal agency charged with managing the region’s electricity grid says...
by Jane Richey | Mar 8, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
To hear the president and Democrats talk, you’d think that Big Oil was sucking the Treasury dry with huge subsidies. Almost a year ago I wrote about the federal government’s “subsidies” to Big Oil. I said then, “They are all tax...
by Jane Richey | Mar 8, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
The Tea Party is alive and kicking. House Speaker John Boehner can’t help but notice that Representative Jean Schmidt, one of his fellow GOP House members from the Cincinnati area, just went down to defeat at the hands of a political neophyte. Brad Wenstrup is a...
by Jane Richey | Mar 8, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The Obama Administration is giving $737 million to a Tonopah Solar, a subsidiary of California-based SolarReserve. PCG is an investment partner with SolarReserve. Nancy Pelosi’s brother-in-law happens to be the number two man at PCG. Read...
by Jane Richey | Mar 8, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
The sharp winter decline in the unemployment rate has put a spring in President Barack Obama’s step ahead of his re-election bid. But some economists think quirks in the jobless data mean progress could stall out soon. Several Wall Street economists believe the...
