by Jane Richey | Dec 27, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The U.S. Labor Department has rustled up more taxpayer money to help “jobless workers” pay their health insurance premiums. “It is difficult enough to find new employment, let alone do so without health insurance for you or your family,” Labor...
by Jane Richey | Dec 26, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
With the “fiscal cliff” looming, Washington is looking under every rock for new forms of “revenue.” Nothing appears sacred, not even mortgage and charitable deductions, which some are recasting as “loopholes.” Ending the mortgage deduction when the housing market is...
by Jane Richey | Dec 26, 2012 | Agenda 21, Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
Ever since the Senate rejected President Obama’s cap-and-trade scheme in 2009, his administration has been hard at work to find other ways to implement a radical, environmentalist agenda. Obama made these intentions clear at a press conference in 2010 when he...
by Jane Richey | Dec 24, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Workers probably won’t feel the full brunt of next year’s tax increases in their January paychecks, but don’t be fooled by the temporary reprieve. No matter what Congress does to address the year-end fiscal cliff, it’s already too late for...
by Jane Richey | Dec 22, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Friday finalized a set of long-planned rules that put limits on emissions of harmful air pollutants from industrial boilers and incinerators. Known as boiler MACT rules, the standards impose the first-ever limits on...
by Jane Richey | Dec 22, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
There will be no “regulatory tsunami” from President Obama’s administration next year, the White House budget office insisted on Friday. The claim came as the Office of Management and Budget released its annual regulatory agenda, which sets regulatory priorities for...
