by Jane Richey | Aug 29, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The Federal Communications Commission paid out more than $1 million in federal stimulus funds to a London company through a contract that reported creating no jobs in the U.S. or overseas, procurement records show. The vendor, SamKnows Ltd., won the stimulus-funded...
by Jane Richey | Aug 29, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
While all eyes were on the Republican National Convention in Tampa and Hurricane Isaac on the Gulf Coast, the White House was quietly jacking up the price of automobiles and putting future drivers at risk. Yes, the same cast of fable-tellers who falsely accused GOP...
by Jane Richey | Aug 28, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
The rhetorical Medicare wars have heated up this week, after President Obama declared in his Saturday radio address [1] that his proposed reforms “won’t touch your guaranteed Medicare benefits. Not by a single dime.” This is incorrect. Obamacare cuts $716 billion [2]...
by Jane Richey | Aug 28, 2012 | Voting Issues
From the moment Voter ID was passed in March, its opponents said that many would have difficulty obtaining the necessary photo identification to vote. Problems ranged from inconvenient driver’s license center hours to a lack of the necessary documents needed to obtain...
by Jane Richey | Aug 27, 2012 | Agenda 21, Constitutionally Limited Goverment
Trying to protect Colorado forests that hundreds of thousands more people visit each year, the U.S. Forest Service is reining in the rental companies that deliver ATVs and snowmobiles at trailheads. Forest managers say they’ll also scrutinize...
