by Jane Richey | Mar 12, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar took to the White House briefing room Monday to defend President Obama’s energy plan after a new poll suggested high gas prices are eroding the president’s approval numbers. Salazar insisted that Obama is reviewing short- and long-term...
by Jane Richey | Mar 12, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
From the Galatian Free Press: It is amazing that so many Americans are willing to tolerate 8%+ unemployment, 15%+ underemployment, & 49 Million People in poverty, when America can do so much better than that. The economy is capable of achieving 5% unemployment...
by Jane Richey | Mar 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Voters’ old-fashioned common sense about the economy was backed up by the numbers in the February jobs report just released this morning. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. economy added 227,000 jobs last month. That’s the good news, and it does...
by Jane Richey | Mar 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The Obama administration is about to carry out a major provision of the new health care law by issuing standards for health insurance exchanges, the markets where consumers and small businesses will be able to buy coverage from competing private plans. To encourage...
by Jane Richey | Mar 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
The U.S. government just notched its highest ever monthly deficit, with the red rink running to an estimated $229 billion in February. The Congressional Budget Office, in a preliminary analysis, reported that the February 2012 deficit broke last year’s monthly...
by Jane Richey | Mar 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Obama administration officials are emphasizing restoration of degraded ecosystems as they roll out a final new rule for managing the nation’s 193 million acres of forests and grasslands. Thirty years in the making, the rule to be officially issued this month...