by Jane Richey | Jun 13, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
In 60 seconds, about 13 hours of committee debate and marathon public discussion ended with a whimper when lawmakers tabled Property Tax Independence Act on Monday. The House Finance Committee voted 13 to 11 to table House Bill 1776, or the Property Tax Independence...
by Jane Richey | Jun 13, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
The United Nations plans to make its Rio+20 Sustainable Development Conference “the most significant environmental conference in history.” A draft planning and agenda document, “The Future We Want,” marked-up by myriad ultra-liberal NGOs, provides an unvarnished look...
by Jane Richey | Jun 12, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
The recent recession wiped out nearly two decades of Americans’ wealth, according to government data released Monday, with middle-class families bearing the brunt of the decline. The Federal Reserve said the median net worth of families plunged by 39 percent in just...
by Jane Richey | Jun 12, 2012 | Politics
The Delphi Technique and consensus building are both founded in the same principle – the Hegelian dialectic of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis, with synthesis becoming the new thesis. The goal is a continual evolution to “oneness of mind”...
by Jane Richey | Jun 11, 2012 | Politics
Though Mitt Romney has sewn up the Republican presidential nomination, some tea party activists remain unconvinced of his conservative credentials and plan to abstain in November. “I have heard from various folks in the tea party that they would rather stay home,”...
by Jane Richey | Jun 8, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
A group of international scientists is sounding a global alarm, warning that population growth, climate change and environmental destruction are pushing Earth toward calamitous — and irreversible — biological changes. In a paper published in Thursday’s edition...
