by Jane Richey | May 12, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) subpoenaed the Interior Department for a second time Friday over planned regulations aimed at curbing environmental damage from Appalachian coal mining. The subpoena calls on the Interior Department to...
by Jane Richey | May 12, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
Cecil Roberts, the president of the United Mine Workers of America, traveled the country for Barack Obama four years ago. He hoped to persuade skeptical working-class white voters in places like southwestern Virginia and southern Ohio to vote for an African-American...
by Jane Richey | May 12, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Occupy LA turned out to be a lot more costly to the city than originally anticipated. After the park surrounding LA’s City Hall was cleared by the LAPD in November, published estimates suggested the total cost of the two month occupation would be about $2.3...
by Jane Richey | May 12, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Tens of thousands of protesters in Madrid flooded into the central Puerta del Sol plaza in the evening and aimed to stay for three days. But authorities warned they wouldn’t allow anyone to camp out overnight, and up to 2,000 riot police were expected to be on...