by Jane Richey | May 14, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Oil helped build Pennsylvania. It helped feed the industry’s workers by giving them jobs, such as those at the old ConocoPhillips refinery in Trainer, Delaware County. But these days, the oil industry is unpredictable. Crude oil is costing more, shrinking an...
by Jane Richey | May 14, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The Green River Formation, a largely vacant area of mostly federal land that covers the territory where Colorado, Utah and Wyoming come together, contains about as much recoverable oil as all the rest the world’s proven reserves combined, an auditor from the...
by Jane Richey | May 13, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Readers who heed what the media says would have thought the tea party bitter clingers were dead, so this week’s election results must have seemed to them like the attack of the zombies. The zombies made their appearance known in Wisconsin, Indiana, and Utah....
by Jane Richey | May 13, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
National and local tea party groups will coordinate efforts to help Wisconsin voters make a final push to stand up against the forces on the left and union power brokers who have besieged the state with perpetual recalls and disruptive tactics in an effort to thwart...
by Jane Richey | May 13, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
U.S. lawmakers have been unusually silent about federal regulators’ decision to allow a Chinese bank to take over 13 bank branches in New York and California, suggesting that they think American banks have much to gain. Members of both parties usually relish the...
by Jane Richey | May 12, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Occupy LA turned out to be a lot more costly to the city than originally anticipated. After the park surrounding LA’s City Hall was cleared by the LAPD in November, published estimates suggested the total cost of the two month occupation would be about $2.3...
