by Jane Richey | May 20, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
A top official at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) told a Republican congressman that the agency is still considering ways to save LightSquared’s plan for a high-speed wireless network. The company invested billions of dollars in plans for a...
by Jane Richey | May 20, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
Republicans have declared war on what they call President Obama’s “war on coal.” House Natural Resources Committee Republicans on Friday escalated their year-long investigation into the Obama administration’s planned rewrite of coal-mining regulations imposed by...
by Jane Richey | May 19, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
After a Congressional hearing last week examining the science behind green building rating systems, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers and the American Chemistry Council asked Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) to reject the “fatally...
by Jane Richey | May 18, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The United States Postal Service announced Thursday that it would begin consolidating 48 mail processing centers beginning in July, the first phase of a cost-cutting plan that is intended to save the agency nearly $1.2 billion a year as it tries to adjust to declining...
by Jane Richey | May 18, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
A senior House Democrat who supports the Keystone XL oil pipeline predicted Thursday that the project will be left on the cutting room floor in House-Senate negotiations over transportation legislation. “My guess is that it would not be in the final product,” said...
by Jane Richey | May 18, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
From Right Side News: Libertarian extremists, who purport to be the face of the tea party movement, and their pals on the Lawyer Left, whose obsession is more rights for mass-murderers, are again making common cause. Their target, once more, is the detention procedure...
