by Jane Richey | Aug 9, 2012 | Agenda 21, Politics
The Natural Resources Conservation Service, a part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, operates 9,516 vehicles even though it only has 11,605 employees. That works out to one vehicle for every 1.2 employees. The service promotes itself, in part, as a component of...
by Jane Richey | Aug 9, 2012 | Politics
The IRS showed more interest in processing applications for a taxpayer identification number than in vetting those requests for fraud, according to a federal audit publicly released Wednesday. The revenue service’s review of applications for Individual Taxpayer...
by Jane Richey | Aug 9, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
Unemployment is at 8.3 percent. The economy is sputtering at 1.5 percent growth. Food prices are rising due to drought conditions across the country. And gas prices are up again, pinching Americans’ summer budgets. It is past time for the President and Congress to...
by Jane Richey | Aug 8, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
President Obama on Tuesday signed a law requiring the White House budget office to reveal exactly how automatic budget cuts looming in January 2013 will be carried out. The Sequestration Transparency Act was passed by the House in July by a 414-2 vote. The Senate...
by Jane Richey | Aug 8, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
Louis M. Bacon is the head of Moore Capital Management, one of the largest and most influential hedge funds in the world. Last week, he announced that he was returning one quarter of his largest fund, about $2 billion, to his investors. The reason he gave to The New...
by Jane Richey | Aug 8, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
The Obama Administration came out swinging against its critics on welfare reform yesterday, with Press Secretary Jay Carney saying the charge that the Administration gutted the successful 1996 reform’s work requirements is “categorically false” and “blatantly...
