by Jane Richey | Feb 20, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Another day another taxpayer funded bailout to a politically connected energy company up to its eyeballs in debt. This time, it’s a California solar company called SunPower. And Judicial Watch is once again battling the Obama administration for details as to how the...
by Jane Richey | Feb 20, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
The city of Harrisburg is Ground Zero for America’s municipal debt crisis. Pennsylvania’s capital city has liabilities estimated at $610 million, which is nearly 10 times its annual budget. The city is so deep in the red that last year it attempted to file for...
by Jane Richey | Feb 20, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
From the CBO: Many people would like to work but have not searched for a job in the past four weeks, or are working part-time but would prefer full-time work. If those people were counted among the unemployed, the unemployment rate in January 2012 would have been...
by Jane Richey | Feb 20, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
Hardly anyone has noticed or seems to care. Speaking at a Boeing assembly plant in Everett, Washington Friday, President Barack Obama announced a bold new plan to help American exporters: he would broaden the services of the Ex-Im Bank to help grow our exports. Now,...
by Jane Richey | Feb 15, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) moved to reject LightSquared’s planned wireless network on Tuesday after the president’s top adviser on telecom issues said there is “no practical way” to prevent the network from disrupting GPS...
by Jane Richey | Feb 15, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
“As both the stimulus and our overseas military operations wind down, taxpayers would expect federal expenditures linked to these activities to wind down too” said NTUF Senior Policy Analyst Demian Brady. “Yet, the President’s budget only provides a short breather...
