by Jane Richey | Mar 30, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
At the time of America’s founding, the notion of civic duty was commonplace. Our entire system was predicated on the idea that citizens would take an active role in the governance of their towns, states, and country. Little was asked of Americans other than...
by Jane Richey | Mar 29, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
During oral arguments in the Supreme Court this week, Justice Stephen Breyer posed and answered the core question at issue in the controversy over the constitutionality of Obamacare’s mandate that individual Americans must buy government-approved health insurance...
by Jane Richey | Mar 28, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
While Washington’s eyes are focused on the historic Obamacare hearings at the Supreme Court, work continues across the street in the House of Representatives where some Members of Congress — though not all — are doing their best to clean up Washington’s budgetary...
by Jane Richey | Mar 26, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
The Internal Revenue Service is taking heat from both Republican and Democratic lawmakers for its oversight of certain groups engaging in political activity, in particular Tea Party organizations seeking tax-exempt status. In recent weeks, GOP lawmakers have followed...
by Jane Richey | Mar 24, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
The Internet is rapidly being transformed into a Big Brother control grid where privacy rights are being systematically strangled to death. The control freaks that run things have become absolutely obsessed with watching, tracking, monitoring and recording virtually...
by Jane Richey | Mar 21, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
In one week, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments surrounding the key provision of the 2010 health care law – the individual mandate. But outside of the courts, efforts in Congress to tinker with the complex and controversial law continue, including a vote this...