by Jane Richey | May 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
As the U.S. Supreme Court mulls the constitutionality of the Democrats’ Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration is moving ahead with plans to pour millions of dollars into “school-based health centers.” On Wednesday, Health and Human Services...
by Jane Richey | May 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
For a surprising number of U.S. hybrid car owners, the experience is one and done. According to recent analysis by Polk Automotive, last year just 35 percent chose to buy another hybrid when it came time for a new car. Loyalty dropped even more, to about 33 percent,...
by Jane Richey | May 10, 2012 | Free Markets
As Dore’s only residents, they lived in a ghost town on the desolate northern Plains. But now the couple has neighbors _ and lots of them. The all-but-forgotten former farming village has been reborn as a hub of oil activity. And it may not be the last abandoned...
by Jane Richey | May 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Noting the strong link between students’ health and their ability to learn, health advocates want the federal departments of Education and Health and Human Services to make a few small changes they believe could improve students’ academic and physical well-being and...
by Jane Richey | May 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Too-big-to-fail banks? Meet “too-big-to-control” government. That’s the label House Republicans slapped on the Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday during a hearing on the agency’s spending. GOP members of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s oversight...