by Jane Richey | Aug 9, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
Livestock farmers and ranchers seeing their feed costs rise because of the worst drought in a quarter-century are demanding that the Environmental Protection Agency waive production requirements for corn-based ethanol. One-third of House members have also signed onto...
by Jane Richey | Aug 9, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
Unemployment is at 8.3 percent. The economy is sputtering at 1.5 percent growth. Food prices are rising due to drought conditions across the country. And gas prices are up again, pinching Americans’ summer budgets. It is past time for the President and Congress to...
by Jane Richey | Aug 8, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Randall Tabor, who owns two Quiznos sandwich restaurants in Virginia Beach, Va., once aspired to triple the number of outlets he owns. But after the federal health-care overhaul passed in 2010, Mr. Tabor says, he shelved those plans. The law requires that employers...
by Jane Richey | Aug 8, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
Louis M. Bacon is the head of Moore Capital Management, one of the largest and most influential hedge funds in the world. Last week, he announced that he was returning one quarter of his largest fund, about $2 billion, to his investors. The reason he gave to The New...
by Jane Richey | Aug 8, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
The Obama Administration came out swinging against its critics on welfare reform yesterday, with Press Secretary Jay Carney saying the charge that the Administration gutted the successful 1996 reform’s work requirements is “categorically false” and “blatantly...
by Jane Richey | Aug 8, 2012 | Agenda 21, Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
President Obama is not a fan of America’s suburbs. Indeed, he intends to abolish them. With suburban voters set to be the swing constituency of the 2012 election, the administration’s plans for this segment of the electorate deserve scrutiny. Obama is a longtime...
