by Jane Richey | Dec 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
PA Congressman Chaka Fattah introduces bill giving the President the authority to raise the debt ceiling as necessary: The “Ending Fiscal Cliffs” act would allow President Obama to raise the debt ceiling unilaterally, a move that has been talked about all week as a...
by Jane Richey | Dec 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Folk wisdom tells us, “Where there’s smoke, there’s carbon emissions.” And where there are carbon emissions, there are internationalists hell-bent on hobbling the American economy in the name of Global Warming. Several recent signs: In 2010, the Treasury Department...
by Jane Richey | Dec 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
Two days ago, the 18th United Nations conference on climate change wrapped up. As they did at the previous 17 conferences, developing nations demanded that the United States and other developed countries pay them for the climate’s effects. In short, the joke’s on us....
by Jane Richey | Dec 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
And what, according to every semi-rational conception of mankind the world has ever known, is a man who has no claim on the product of his labor, on his effort, his time, or, as naturally follows, on his own life? The answer would have been self-evident to every man,...
by Jane Richey | Dec 9, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
There’s not much amusing about this Gallup poll, but there is something that shows people who support fiscal responsibility whom they are arguing against: while 88% like “free enterprise,” 53% see “socialism” favorably. Come again? Socialism is directly opposed to...
by Jane Richey | Dec 9, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
Under pressure from lawmakers, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) has changed its school lunch requirements to allow more meats and grains. Several farm-state senators from both parties had been pushing USDA to change its school lunch requirements, saying it left...
