by Jane Richey | May 25, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
There are some things that are so apparent that they’re not even worth mentioning. What goes up must come down. The earth is round. President Barack Obama is a big spender. But this week, some in the media and in the White House are denying one of these totally...
by Jane Richey | May 25, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
In 1959, during an interview with the late Mike Wallace, Ayn Rand, the author of “Atlas Shrugged”, said “A free market will not break down. All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure that is always offered is more of the same poisons that...
by Jane Richey | May 25, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
According to White House energy adviser Heather Zichal, the Obama administration still sees a future for coal. She also said that the administration wasn’t “singing ‘Kumbaya’” with the natural gas industry and was committed to seeing coal burned “in a more...
by Jane Richey | May 24, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Americans despise taxes. After all, one of the key issues that paved the way for the American Revolution was the unfair taxation that King George III levied against the Colonies. Now some in the US Senate want to say yes to an international tax. It would be the...
by Jane Richey | May 24, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Charles Bier, senior conservation scientist for the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, walked properties Tuesday that the conservancy recently added to public lands in Erie County. The Pittsburgh-based conservancy has bought more than 600 acres of local stream banks...
by Jane Richey | May 24, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The General Services Administration should focus on structural changes to its Public Buildings Service, a group of senators from both parties said in a May 21 letter to GSA’s acting administrator Dan Tangherlini. Senators Tom Carper, D-Del., Rob Portman, R-Ohio, Tom...
