by Jane Richey | May 24, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) isn’t convinced the Interior Department’s inspector general has been playing it straight with his panel. Mary Kendall, the department’s internal watchdog, says she most certainly has. Hastings...
by Jane Richey | May 24, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The lobbying group for automobile dealerships is contesting a claim by a consumer group that higher fuel standards for cars will lead to happy drivers. Instead, the McLean, Va.-based National Automobile Dealers Association said Wednesday the Obama...
by Jane Richey | May 24, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Baby-boomer retirements are skewing the nation’s unemployment rate, but not enough to disguise a weak economy, according to a new report. The left-leaning Economic Policy Institute (EPI) says the slow exit of baby boomers is a factor in the declining jobless rate, and...
by Jane Richey | May 24, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Ahead of a mammoth United Nations sustainability conference in Rio de Janeiro next month, the Brazilian government has signaled a new push to get the U.N.’s top environmental body upgraded – a push long opposed by the United States. Brazil wants to breathe new life...
by Jane Richey | May 23, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and military leaders implored conservative Republicans on Wednesday to approve a long-spurned high seas treaty, saying it would create jobs, open a new path to oil, gas and other resources and bolster national security....
by Jane Richey | May 23, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
A Pennsylvania company plans to invest $380 million to expand natural-gas pipelines in the state, and ultimately link to markets in New Jersey and New York. Penn Virginia Resource Partners, L.P., of Radnor, said Monday that some of the expansions to its Lycoming...
