by Jane Richey | Nov 16, 2012 | Free Markets
Thousands of members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union went on strike last week after rejecting in September a contract offer that cut wages and benefits. Hostess said Friday the company is unprofitable “under its...
by Jane Richey | Nov 14, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
Governors across the country still mulling whether to plan their own health care marketplaces or turn the process over to the feds recently received an extension. They now have until mid-December to submit a so-called blueprint for how the federally-mandated health...
by Jane Richey | Nov 13, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
President Obama has won reelection, and his administration has asked state officials to decide by Friday, November 16, whether their state will create one of Obamacare’s health-insurance “exchanges.” States also have to decide whether to implement the law’s massive...
by Jane Richey | Nov 13, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
The lame-duck session begins today, with retiring and defeated Members of Congress coming back to Washington to make their last legislative decisions. Because of the lack of accountability to voters, the lame-duck period brings heightened scrutiny. Congress has 16...
by Jane Richey | Nov 13, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
The patriot movement had its Concord Bridge moment in 2010, and now it is facing its winter at Valley Forge. Both liberal and mainstream politicians are waiting to see what the patriot movement does during the harsh winter of a second Obama term. Conservative opinion...
by Jane Richey | Nov 12, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
The punditocracy, like the oracles of old, has spoken. Obama won because of various and sundry reasons, most of which can be debated and none of which is the single, sufficient cause. But one reason, or unreason, was a definite and perhaps the single most important...
