by Jane Richey | Jan 11, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
Saying the jobs report shows the Obama administration has more “work to do,” Thomas Perez said on CNBC that immigration reform, in addition to promise zones, was needed to jumpstart the economy. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the ranking member on the Senate...
by Jane Richey | Jan 11, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Roughly 347,000 Americans gave up looking for work in December, allowing progressives to claim a sharp drop in the formal unemployment rate during the month. The formal unemployment rate fell from 7.0 percent to 6.7 percent even though only about 74,000 extra people...
by Jane Richey | Jan 11, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Health Care
Disgruntled workers are blaming ObamaCare after Staples ordered managers not to schedule any part-time associates for more than 25 hours per week. An anonymous petition at Change.org urges the office supply chain to reverse its policy, calling the cuts...
by Jane Richey | Jan 11, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
In 2010 millions of American tea-party constitutionalists, to include the GOP’s Christian base, united in a remarkable grass-roots effort to rein in our unbridled federal government and return it to its expressly limited constitutional confines. As a result, an...
by Jane Richey | Jan 10, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
Have you heard the story of the residents of Riverton, Wyo.? One day they were Wyomingans, the next they were members of the Wind River tribes — after the Environmental Protection Agency declared the town part of the Wind River Indian Reservation, undoing a 1905 law...
by Jane Richey | Jan 10, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Regulations that went into effect in 2013 cost Americans $112 billion – or $447 million for each of the 251 days the federal government was open – according to a study by the American Action Forum (AAF), which predicts that the regulatory burden will increase to...