by Jane Richey | Apr 9, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is looking to overhaul the mortgage servicing industry, arguing that the problem-plagued sector is unaccountable and opaque. The CFPB announced Monday that it was mulling rules to reform that industry, which has been...
by Jane Richey | Apr 9, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
The Obama administration has all but abandoned its push to require federal contractors to disclose their political donations. A year ago, the White House composed a draft executive order that would have forced potential government contractors to reveal their political...
by Jane Richey | Apr 9, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The Obama administration is quietly diverting roughly $500 million to the IRS to help implement the president’s healthcare law. The money is only part of the IRS’s total implementation spending, and it is being provided outside the normal appropriations process. The...
by Jane Richey | Apr 7, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin said President Obama’s policies are the cause of rising gas prices, not a lack of energy resources. Fallin said Saturday that the problem stems from a lack of leadership and questioned Obama’s role in increasing the nation’s...
by Jane Richey | Apr 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
America is at a crossroads. Today’s jobs report shows that two years into recovery the U.S. economy is still woefully underperforming, adding only 120,000 new jobs in March, about half the rate of job growth of the previous three months which were, themselves,...
by Jane Richey | Apr 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Hundreds of Penn State students stormed the state’s capital city in hopes of restoring state funding to their university. Gov. Tom Corbett proposed cutting the university’s state funding by 30 percent for the second consecutive year. The proposed cut for...
