by Jane Richey | Aug 14, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Taxpayers will lose even more on the auto bailout than previously thought, as the Treasury has just revised its estimate upward to $25 billion. This may still underestimate the losses to come—yet President Obama plans to tout the auto bailout as a key accomplishment...
by Jane Richey | Aug 8, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
The Obama Administration came out swinging against its critics on welfare reform yesterday, with Press Secretary Jay Carney saying the charge that the Administration gutted the successful 1996 reform’s work requirements is “categorically false” and “blatantly...
by Jane Richey | Apr 27, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
You know a politician is looking for applause when he speaks in front of a crowd of college students and says he’s there to help them pay back their student loans. After all, who doesn’t like the prospect of free money? But as the saying (sort of) goes, beware of...
by Jane Richey | Apr 9, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets, Politics
The Obama administration has all but abandoned its push to require federal contractors to disclose their political donations. A year ago, the White House composed a draft executive order that would have forced potential government contractors to reveal their political...
by Jane Richey | Mar 31, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
The Obama Administration power grab continues. This time the president wants to seize more executive control over a massive piece of real estate: our oceans, the tributaries that lead to them, and the inland areas that surround those waterways. Plenty of regulations,...