by Jane Richey | Feb 20, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
The city of Harrisburg is Ground Zero for America’s municipal debt crisis. Pennsylvania’s capital city has liabilities estimated at $610 million, which is nearly 10 times its annual budget. The city is so deep in the red that last year it attempted to file for...
by Jane Richey | Feb 20, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
From the CBO: Many people would like to work but have not searched for a job in the past four weeks, or are working part-time but would prefer full-time work. If those people were counted among the unemployed, the unemployment rate in January 2012 would have been...
by Jane Richey | Feb 20, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
Hardly anyone has noticed or seems to care. Speaking at a Boeing assembly plant in Everett, Washington Friday, President Barack Obama announced a bold new plan to help American exporters: he would broaden the services of the Ex-Im Bank to help grow our exports. Now,...
by Jane Richey | Feb 18, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
What a short memory Reid has! i.e. Democrats blocking Bush nominees; filibuster threats; Gang of Fourteen, etc., etc., “If something doesn’t break here I am going to recommend to the president that he recess-appoint all of these nominees,” said Reid....
by Jane Richey | Feb 17, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The CBO writes that America’s unemployment rate has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making this the longest stretch of high unemployment since the Great Depression. To make matters worse, unemployment will remain above 8 percent until 2014. And the level of...
by Jane Richey | Feb 16, 2012 | Politics
Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) Primary: April 24 Conservative groups are rallying around Evan Feinberg, a former congressional aide who’s looking to unseat Murphy, a Pittsburgh-area congressman who has displayed a penchant for working with Democrats. The anti-tax Club for...
