by Jane Richey | Aug 23, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
With Paul Ryan now on the GOP ticket and the Medicare/health care debate now even more volatile, consider this bit of folly when pondering government’s role in health care. Recently, while on the way to church, I made my typical Sunday morning stop at a local...
by Jane Richey | Aug 23, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
Obama’s campaign speeches always seem to include a line about how he can take credit for increasing domestic oil and gas production. As the official White House website has it, “domestic oil and gas production has increased every year President Obama has...
by Jane Richey | Aug 23, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
National Republican party officials on Wednesday put their party officially on record opposing United Nations‘ attempts, some backed by Democrats in Congress, to assess a special tax on Americans and give the money to Third World nations. In a resolution, the...
by Jane Richey | Aug 23, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
A third round of “quantitative easing” could be coming soon from the Federal Reserve if the economy does not pick up steam, according to minutes released Wednesday. Several members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) said the Fed will need to do...
by Jane Richey | Aug 23, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Vice President Joe Biden, speaking at a high school in Detroit Wednesday, said “it won’t cost the government a penny” to help more homeowners stay in their homes, “if the Republicans would just get out of the way.” Biden took credit for cutting taxes for the middle...