by Jane Richey | Jun 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Banking regulations have swung too far toward the extreme since the Wall Street meltdown in 2008, which is preventing the economy from moving forward, says the head of a Washington bank. “We need balance,” J. Scott Wilfong, president and CEO of SunTrust Bank of...
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, 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, 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 5, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The amount of methane released from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is half what the Obama administration estimates, according to a study released Monday by the American Petroleum Institute and the America’s Natural Gas Alliance. Howard Feldman, API’s...
by Jane Richey | Jun 5, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The Defense Department is looking for a little help from its friends overseas as the Pentagon and White House try to break Senate opposition to an international treaty on maritime law. Meeting with the defense chiefs of several Asian powers during the Shangri-La...
