by Jane Richey | Jul 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The U.S. government is spending $20 million to “help clean energy projects in Africa get started.” Those projects include wind farms and solar panels, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced at the recent Rio +20 Conference in Brazil. But the government watchdog...
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, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
It looks like a tax, smells like a tax, and the Supreme Court says it must be a tax. But politicians in both parties are squirming over how to define the Thing in President Barack Obama’s health care law that requires people to pay up if they don’t get...
by Jane Richey | Jul 3, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
The House as early as next week will pass legislation prohibiting the IRS from receiving any money from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to implement the 2010 healthcare reform law. Passage of the financial services spending bill is especially timely...
by Jane Richey | Jul 3, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Uncategorized
The Navy is steaming ahead with an initiative to power ships with biofuel, despite criticism the so-called “green fuel” costs nearly seven times more than conventional fuel. This month marks the first time the Navy is using biofuel in an operational setting —...
