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 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Today’s jobs report is a broken record, with the unemployment rate stuck at 8.2 percent. The Department of Labor reports that only 80,000 jobs were added in June—consistent with other data revealing the economy has downshifted from slow to slower. This picture is...
by Jane Richey | Jul 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The Labor Department said Friday that the unemployment rate was unchanged at 8.2 percent. The economy has added just 75,000 jobs a month in the April-June quarter. That’s one-third of 226,000 a month created in the first quarter. Job creation is also trailing...
by Jane Richey | Jul 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
Several states say they will reject ObamaCare’s expansion of Medicaid, and one expert on the law believes even more states will follow suit. States that are saying ‘no’ to expansion include Wisconsin, Iowa, Louisiana and Florida, which is also...
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 3, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
With all the gloomy economic news coming out of late, one bright spot flew under the radar last week: the United States is poised to be the proverbial center of the energy universe. A recent study by Harvard Research Fellow Leonardo Maugeri found that the United...
