by Jane Richey | Jun 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Federal debt will double by the middle of the next decade and reach more than twice the size of the entire U.S. economy by 2037 unless Congress changes course on taxes and spending, the Congressional Budget Office said in its latest analysis Tuesday. The CBO said it’s...
by Jane Richey | Jun 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
he bulk of new affordable housing to be part of the massive Tysons Corner redevelopment plan is slated for households making six figures — or close to it — according to an analysis to be unveiled Wednesday. The plan calls for developers to set aside 20 percent of new...
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, 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 6, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility
Leftists will probably greet this news as evidence that “green jobs” actually do exist. But the rest of us are wondering why an urban school district that’s hemorrhaging money is employing any farmers at all. That’s just one of the questions raised from a recent open...
