by Jane Richey | Dec 4, 2012 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) says Boehner’s offer to raise $800 billion in taxes on the wealthy (partly by closing loopholes and limiting deductions) “will destroy American jobs and allow politicians in Washington to spend even more, while not reducing our $16...
by Jane Richey | Nov 2, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
President Obama has a new booklet—a glossy, 20-page spread called “The New Economic Patriotism: A Plan for Jobs and Middle-Class Security.” The title is completely Orwellian, since the plan—which is nothing new—would actually kill jobs, harming the middle class. As...
by Jane Richey | Aug 3, 2012 | Free Markets, Politics
U.S. employers added 163,000 jobs in July, but the national unemployment rate jumped to 8.3 percent. July’s hiring was the best since February. Still, the economy has added an average of 151,000 jobs a month this year, roughly the same as last year’s pace....
by Jane Richey | Apr 6, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The economy added 120,000 jobs in March, well below what economists had predicted, while the unemployment rate ticked down slightly to 8.2 percent. The number is nearly half the 210,000 expected and ends the streak of three straight months in which the economy added...
by Jane Richey | Mar 2, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Free Markets
The federal government has been trying to find a balance between logging and fish and wildlife habitat since at least the late 1980s. The spotted owl was designated as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 1990 — an action that led to massive logging cutbacks...