By Rick Manning – The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the United Auto Workers (UAW) is asking its members to authorize a strike against Ford Motor Company in a vote scheduled to occur by September 2. While strikes against the so-called Big 3 U.S. automakers, GM, […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox,  click here ! Good Wednesday morning, Here are the  Must Reads according to  Adam Bitely : Union Brutality: Ohio business man shot for being non-union Cartoon: How Washington politicians see the world Obama’s AG Sec: More people on food stamps means more jobs… The welfare state’s road to riots Making Washington inconsequential The department of failed ideas It’s going to be a long, ugly campaign ObamaCare is going down Limits: The power to mandate healthcare is the power to mandate anything… Why is Europe obsessed with a central government? The slow death of Europe Nixon’s big government legacy

This is a very important story and the word needs to be spread (H/T LaborUnionReport ): With around 25 employees, John King owns one of the largest non-union electrical contracting businesses in the Toledo, Ohio area. As a non-union contractor, his business happens to be doing […]

By Robert Romano – As the situation in Europe continues to unravel, with each concurrent intervention by central planners unable to stem the sovereign debt crisis, policymakers appear to be at a loss of what to do next — besides engage in yet more interventions. Not long […]

By Rick Manning – Last week, Japanese automaker, Honda, announced a decision to spend $800 million to open another plant in North America to produce the exact kind of sub-compact vehicle that will help them meet the overly ambitious mileage guidelines laid out by the Obama Administration. Honda has […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This week William Warren, our cartoonist, is on vacation. The below cartoon is one of his finer works from back in 2009 and we are featuring that in place of the regularly new cartoon that would have been released today. Cartoon By […]

By Kevin Mooney — Government agencies and international institutions that have worked tenaciously to vilify carbon dioxide (CO2) as a dangerous pollutant have done a great public disservice, Dr. Craig Idso, a scientist and author told audience members at the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) […]

Wes Moore: “Mr. Secretary, good morning. Many people don’t know that actually food stamps fall under the Department of Agriculture. And a report was just released that nearly 1 in 7 Americans now are currently on food stamps. What strategies — what’s being done right […]

If unemployment benefits created jobs, as Jay Carney the Press Secretary for Obama explains below, then why hasn’t the Obama administration pushed for a nationwide program for putting all Americans on unemployment insurance so that job creation flourishes? These folks have proven that they will […]