by Jane Richey | Feb 20, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
Hardly anyone has noticed or seems to care. Speaking at a Boeing assembly plant in Everett, Washington Friday, President Barack Obama announced a bold new plan to help American exporters: he would broaden the services of the Ex-Im Bank to help grow our exports. Now,...
by Jane Richey | Feb 18, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
What a short memory Reid has! i.e. Democrats blocking Bush nominees; filibuster threats; Gang of Fourteen, etc., etc., “If something doesn’t break here I am going to recommend to the president that he recess-appoint all of these nominees,” said Reid....
by Jane Richey | Feb 17, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The CBO writes that America’s unemployment rate has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making this the longest stretch of high unemployment since the Great Depression. To make matters worse, unemployment will remain above 8 percent until 2014. And the level of...
by Jane Richey | Feb 16, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told skeptical Republican senators Tuesday that it is simply not possible to correct the nation’s fiscal problems without raising taxes. Geithner defended President Obama’s 2013 budget proposal before the Senate Finance Committee...
by Jane Richey | Feb 15, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
From Raeford, NC: A preschooler at West Hoke Elementary School ate three chicken nuggets for lunch Jan. 30 because the school told her the lunch her mother packed was not nutritious. The girl’s turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice did not...
by Jane Richey | Feb 15, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) moved to reject LightSquared’s planned wireless network on Tuesday after the president’s top adviser on telecom issues said there is “no practical way” to prevent the network from disrupting GPS...
