by Jane Richey | Jul 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The Labor Department said Friday that the unemployment rate was unchanged at 8.2 percent. The economy has added just 75,000 jobs a month in the April-June quarter. That’s one-third of 226,000 a month created in the first quarter. Job creation is also trailing...
by Jane Richey | Jul 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
Several states say they will reject ObamaCare’s expansion of Medicaid, and one expert on the law believes even more states will follow suit. States that are saying ‘no’ to expansion include Wisconsin, Iowa, Louisiana and Florida, which is also...
by Jane Richey | Jul 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest of New York City temporarily halted any arrests or detentions that would take place under the terms of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which took effect on July 1. In a 68-page opinion, Judge Forrest wrote, while...
by Jane Richey | Jul 5, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts — once counted among the constitutional originalists on the high court — has granted President Obama’s supreme wish. By inexplicably siding with the court’s left wing and upholding the...
by Jane Richey | Jul 4, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Michael Cannon, director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute, says the Supreme Court “completely defanged the Medicaid expansion” as called for in the new healthcare law. “The way Medicaid works is the federal government pays for a little...
by Jane Richey | Jul 3, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
With all the gloomy economic news coming out of late, one bright spot flew under the radar last week: the United States is poised to be the proverbial center of the energy universe. A recent study by Harvard Research Fellow Leonardo Maugeri found that the United...
