by Jane Richey | Mar 19, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
Economist Lan T. Pham says she was fired from the Congressional Budget Office for “producing work at odds with Wall Street research favored by her supervisors. In a letter written to Sen. Charles Grassley, Ms. Pham says that the CBO, which is supposed to be a...
by Jane Richey | Mar 19, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) was first created in 1943, this obscure government agency backs the purchase of American-made goods oversees with loans backed by the full faith and credit of the United States. The bank’s renewable charter first expired in September of...
by Jane Richey | Mar 19, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Death, taxes and now health insurance? Having a medical plan or else paying a fine is about to become another certainty of American life, unless the Supreme Court says no. People are split over the wisdom of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, but...
by Jane Richey | Mar 19, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
A large amount of food sent by the U.N. to the Somali capital during last year’s famine never reached the starving people it was intended for, an Associated Press investigation has found. Some of the World Food Program supplies went to the black market, some to...
by Jane Richey | Mar 19, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
President Barack Obama and his green energy confederates are determined to scare the public about a declining supply of “fossil fuels.” If we accept the idea that oil is produced by the conversion of organic matter — from plants to dinosaurs —...