by Jane Richey | Mar 10, 2012 | Politics
From the Derrick: Senior Venango County Judge H. William White ruled Friday that eight Venango County Republican Committee candidates will be permitted to amend their petitions by correcting deficiencies in the paperwork, returning them to the April 24 primary...
by Jane Richey | Mar 9, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
A Christian law firm is defending nearly 20 tea party organizations from apparent intimidation by the Internal Revenue Service. As reported recently on OneNewsNow, at the beginning of 2012 tea party organizations across the country began receiving letters from the IRS...
by Jane Richey | Mar 8, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Mitt Romney is acknowledging that it’s impossible to know how his tax plan will affect the federal budget deficit. In an interview Wednesday on CNBC, the former Massachusetts governor scoffed at outside groups who have said his plan to lower marginal tax rates would...
by Jane Richey | Mar 8, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
To hear the president and Democrats talk, you’d think that Big Oil was sucking the Treasury dry with huge subsidies. Almost a year ago I wrote about the federal government’s “subsidies” to Big Oil. I said then, “They are all tax...
by Jane Richey | Mar 8, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
The Tea Party is alive and kicking. House Speaker John Boehner can’t help but notice that Representative Jean Schmidt, one of his fellow GOP House members from the Cincinnati area, just went down to defeat at the hands of a political neophyte. Brad Wenstrup is a...
by Jane Richey | Mar 8, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
The sharp winter decline in the unemployment rate has put a spring in President Barack Obama’s step ahead of his re-election bid. But some economists think quirks in the jobless data mean progress could stall out soon. Several Wall Street economists believe the...