by Jane Richey | Feb 4, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
After a federal judge blocked a much broader drug-test rule in Florida, Pennsylvania is taking a more careful approach. Instead of mandating drug tests for all welfare recipients, Pennsylvania plans to randomly test only those with a felony drug conviction within the...
by Jane Richey | Feb 4, 2012 | Alerts, Politics
All three of the Venango County Republican State Committee Members — Becky Hedglin, Charles Breene and Martha Breene — voted not to endorse candidates during the Saturday, January 28th State Committee meeting in Hershey. (If you would like to contact...
by Jane Richey | Feb 4, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Ben Bernanke needs to change direction. His Fed has already committed to an exceptionally low federal funds rate at least into 2013 and perhaps into 2014. But the chairman needs to begin thinking about when the Fed starts increasing the funds rate and shrinking its...
by Jane Richey | Feb 4, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
Truth is, by now we should have created millions more jobs than we have. But Obama’s $836 billion stimulus, his botched industry bailouts, his failed “green” energy policies, his regulatory siege on business, and his disastrous attacks on Wall Street...
by Jane Richey | Feb 4, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
The pursuit of happiness, one of those unalienable rights endowed to us by our Creator, is under assault once again by those who spend every waking moment worrying that somebody somewhere is actually enjoying his or her life without government supervision. In an...