by Jane Richey | Apr 24, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Medicare faces an unfunded liability of $38.6 trillion, according to the Medicare Trustees report released Monday. The unfunded liability is the amount that has been promised in benefits to people now alive that will not be funded by the tax revenue the system is...
by Jane Richey | Apr 23, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
President Obama is urging green-minded voters to work on behalf of his reelection with a video pitch that calls the next few months crucial to continued progress on environmental protection. His reelection campaign used Earth Day to announce the re-launch of...
by Jane Richey | Apr 22, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Many insurance experts and health policy consultants predict only a dozen or so states will be ready to run exchanges on their own — and a few say that projection may be too sunny. Only a handful of the most militant states are likely to continue all-out resistance to...
by Jane Richey | Apr 19, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
In a speech yesterday in Elyria, Ohio — a small town just outside Cleveland sitting at the forks of the Black River — President Barack Obama delivered a politically charged speech in which he hearkened back to the country’s roots, saying that his opponents “don’t seem...
by Jane Richey | Apr 19, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-sponsored and funded “human health effects science” research is unreliable and makes irresponsible and outrageous claims about how air pollution causes thousands of deaths. Then the EPA claims that it...
by Jane Richey | Apr 19, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Owners and managers of swimming pools at hotels, city recreation centers and public parks are scrambling to install mechanical chair lifts to comply with new federal requirements that all public pools be accessible to disabled swimmers. Some hotels fear the cost of...
