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 9, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets, Politics
Just how unpopular is President Barack Obama in some parts of the country? Enough that a man in prison in Texas got 4 out of 10 votes in West Virginia’s Democratic presidential primary. The inmate, Keith Judd, is serving time at the Federal Correctional...
by Jane Richey | Apr 5, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The notion that President Obama is trying to fire up his “base,” as he prepares for a re-election campaign, raises the question of what constitutes his base. It is becoming increasingly clear that the “workers” he is supposedly concerned about are going to be...