by Jane Richey | Jun 27, 2012 | Free Markets
Union bosses are excited that they have prevented their members from getting raises. It’s a bit mind-boggling, but that’s what happened. Last week, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) celebrated defeating a bill in the Senate that would have allowed...
by Jane Richey | Jun 26, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The Interior Department’s lease sales this week in the Central Gulf of Mexico received the highest bids to explore for oil and gas there in at least three decades. This result seemed to surprise Secretary of Interior Salazar. But it should not come as a shock. Under...
by Jane Richey | Jun 25, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The federal government is not making much headway reducing poverty despite spending hundreds of billions of dollars, according to a study by the libertarian Cato Institute. Despite an unprecedented increase in federal anti-poverty spending, the national poverty rate...
by Jane Richey | Jun 24, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Wealthy Americans aren’t just leaving tax-heavy states like New York and California, they’re leaving the country. U.S. citizens are defecting at record levels in order to escape high taxes, the New York Post reported. About 8,000 U.S. citizens are projected to...
by Jane Richey | Jun 22, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
Economy: Ever since he uttered those famous six words about the private sector, President Obama has been running away from claiming that anything much in the economy is “doing fine.” He’s just not looking hard enough. Yes, the economy is barely eking...
by Jane Richey | Jun 22, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
There’s been a great deal of talk lately on the likely demise of this Grand Republic of ours. Very wise and scholarly Americans have taken to opining publicly on the dire state of things, all asking the basic question, “Can this Republic be saved”?...
