by Jane Richey | Jul 26, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
Yesterday, the Senate narrowly voted (51-48) to raise taxes on 1.2 million small businesses, which will likely kill more than 700,000 jobs at a time when nearly 13 million Americans are out of work. Senators Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Jim Webb (D-VA) joined all...
by Jane Richey | Jul 26, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
In a move to speed the regulatory approval process for businesses, Gov. Tom Corbett on Tuesday signed an executive order demanding the Department of Environmental Protection establish firm time limits for reviewing environmental permitting applications. The permit...
by Jane Richey | Jul 26, 2012 | Agenda 21
Attendees at the 2012 International AIDS Conference taking place this week in D.C. were given the opportunity to offset the “carbon footprint” they made traveling to the event through the registration processor at a “carbon offset” desk located in the registration...
by Jane Richey | Jul 26, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
Rep. Tim Griffin (R-Ark.) and some of his House colleagues questioned the need for certain federal regulations on business under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), affecting things like minature golf courses, driving ranges, shooting ranges, and saunas, and...
by Jane Richey | Jul 26, 2012 | Agenda 21
With global temperatures flat-lining for 15 years, climate alarmist arguments are looking far more fragile than the earth’s (actually robust) eco-system. Of late, climate activists of all ideological shades have thus attempted to posit a “third way” between the...