by Jane Richey | Jun 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
President Barack Obama said: “Since I’ve been president, federal spending has risen at the lowest pace in nearly 60 years.” And then he said, “Think about that. I went to the White House website to see what sort of historical light the data...
by Jane Richey | Jun 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Thirteen months after Senate Republicans warned President Obama that a new consumer finance watchdog’s structure gives an overly broad mandate and unchecked powers to its director, that agency is now involved in higher education. In a letter dated May 2, 2011, the...
by Jane Richey | Jun 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack intends to appoint “socially disadvantaged farmers” to voting memberships on county committees — the local farmer panels that serve as a direct link between the farm community and the USDA. Right now, all 7,700...
by Jane Richey | Jun 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
The Wisconsin recall election was a local microcosm for a national debate between two competing visions for America – a debate that will be settled, one way or the other, on November 6th, 2012. On one side of the debate are power-hungry big government overspenders who...
by Jane Richey | Jun 5, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The amount of methane released from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is half what the Obama administration estimates, according to a study released Monday by the American Petroleum Institute and the America’s Natural Gas Alliance. Howard Feldman, API’s...
by Jane Richey | Jun 5, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The Defense Department is looking for a little help from its friends overseas as the Pentagon and White House try to break Senate opposition to an international treaty on maritime law. Meeting with the defense chiefs of several Asian powers during the Shangri-La...
