NRD Editor’s Note: The excellent post below first appeared at Fits News . By Talbert Black, Jr. — Friends of South Carolina, you can have access to a politician, or you can have power to influence him. You can’t have both! I have gained some experience over […]

Diogenes, the Greek mythology figure, once used a lantern to find an honest person. Well, he would have found one in Illinois Treasury Secretary Dan Rutherford. ALG’s Robert Romano explains what this is all about.

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Tuesday morning, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : How much did the Labor Department spend on its broke iPhone app? Gov. Chris Christie appears to be shrinking and not “growing” in office… Democrats’ Medicare plan bankrupts 25% of all hospitals by 2030… Iceland’s revolution against international bank bailouts goes global The Libyan, itty-bitty, kind of, sort of, quasi war Is the Obama administration lying about Libya? Illegal war? Congress doesn’t care Fourth Circuit may rule ObamaCare mandate is a tax When it comes to doomsday predictions, the left shouldn’t laugh at the religious ones… Dead kids make bad laws… Al Roker blames you for tornadoes… False: Deadly recent weather events blamed on climate change… GOP should block Memorial Day recess appointments Rudy Giuliani close to jumping in 2012 Prez race…

By Frank McCaffrey – Hear from ALG President Bill Wilson on the debt ceiling and how Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid needs a trip to spendaholics anonymous. Plus, we analyze what Reid says to cover for his addiction.

By Nathan Mehrens – With much fanfare and self-congratulation, the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor recently rolled out what it probably thought was an awesome idea: an iPhone app that allows hourly employees to keep track of their hours worked. […]

By Kevin Mooney — Is Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey shrinking or growing in office? Some explanation is in order before a definitive answer can be given. Whenever Republicans gravitate toward big government polices during their time in office, as they tend to do […]

By Bill Wilson -In April, the people of Iceland went to the polls, decisively rejecting a bailout of British and Dutch investors who lost billions in the Icesave bank in 2008.  Iceland is the rare example of a nation that allowed its banks to fail in the […]

Hear from ALG President Bill Wilson on the debt ceiling and how Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid needs a trip to spendaholics anonymous. Plus, we analyze what Reid says to cover for his addiction.

The latest episode of Uncommon Knowledge features Thomas Sowell, who outlines common misconceptions about economics, race, and racism.

George Mason University Economics Professor Don Boudreaux (who writes at the must-read blog CafeHayek.com ) spoke on Fox Business’s Freedom Watch w/ Judge Napolitano about what would happen to supermarkets if they were run like the K-12 public education system: