by Jane Richey | Aug 30, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
While Americans continue to be disappointed by dismal jobs reports and a high unemployment rate, one of the few recent bright spots in the U.S. economy has been energy production, particularly the shale oil and shale gas revolution. In fact, the Yale Graduates Energy...
by Jane Richey | Aug 29, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Small businesses are getting a lot of focus from politicians, because they are a key engine of job creation—which has stalled in the U.S. economy. A Republican National Convention theme of “We Built It” continued the political debate over the economy yesterday. A...
by Jane Richey | Aug 29, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Two venerable American gun manufacturers — Remington and Colt — could head for the West their weapons helped win if New York and Connecticut force them to implement microstamping technology. Microstamping, or ballistic imprinting, is a patented process that uses laser...
by Jane Richey | Aug 29, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The Federal Communications Commission paid out more than $1 million in federal stimulus funds to a London company through a contract that reported creating no jobs in the U.S. or overseas, procurement records show. The vendor, SamKnows Ltd., won the stimulus-funded...
by Jane Richey | Aug 29, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
While all eyes were on the Republican National Convention in Tampa and Hurricane Isaac on the Gulf Coast, the White House was quietly jacking up the price of automobiles and putting future drivers at risk. Yes, the same cast of fable-tellers who falsely accused GOP...
by Jane Richey | Aug 28, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
The rhetorical Medicare wars have heated up this week, after President Obama declared in his Saturday radio address [1] that his proposed reforms “won’t touch your guaranteed Medicare benefits. Not by a single dime.” This is incorrect. Obamacare cuts $716 billion [2]...
