by Jane Richey | Aug 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
Today’s Lesson : OXYMORON OF THE CENTURY The SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program)/Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is pleased to be distributing the greatest amount of free meals and food stamps ever. Meanwhile,...
by Jane Richey | Aug 9, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
President Obama today boasted about government assistance to the auto industry while advocating extending such “success” to “every industry.” A new book released this week details Obama’s second-term plans to do just that, including federal government intervention to...
by Jane Richey | Aug 9, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
Paul Kengor: Try to define progressivism. In fact, ask progressives to try to define progressivism. All we really know is that they’re, well, progressing. They and their ideas and their politics are always changing, evolving. This means that what they believe...
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...
