By Bill Wilson — 41 percent. That was all the Euro establishment in Italy could get to vote in favor of ceding sovereignty to the European Union in that country’s latest parliamentary elections . The elections came after former Prime Minister Mario Monti stepped aside after his unpopular budget was adopted. The […]

By Robert Romano — In a move that likely makes grassroots conservatives and tea party members wonder why to bother voting Republican at all, the Virginia General Assembly has approved a budget with little opposition that implements a 3.5 percent wholesale gas tax,  that will rise every year with inflation, and an increase in the sales tax from 5 to […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column was originally published at Forbes.com. By Bill Wilson — In a city known for its perpetual evasion of responsibility and chronic shifting of blame, Washington D.C.’s sequester debate is more of the same — albeit with an interesting twist. Ordinarily spending debates in our […]

By Rick Manning — Nothing gets better press than those who claim to be environmentally friendly.  You have corporations trying to shower you with money to get off your bad guy target list, and foundations can’t shovel enough money in your direction as you crusade to save […]

This is kind of funny. But really scary. On Treasury’s “debt subject to the limit page,” you can see where in time the debt ceiling was eliminated/suspended. For reference, under the most recent debt deal, the debt ceiling has been suspended until May 19. Our […]

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By Bill Wilson — Everything we will ever need to know about the Obama Administration may come down to a single decision. And that is whether Obama, along with newly sworn in Secretary of State John Kerry, approve the Keystone XL pipeline from the Alberta tar sands to the U.S . For, contained in that decision is not just […]

By Marta H. Mossburg — I wonder what Mitt Romney thought when he saw the Dodge Ram commercial during the Super Bowl. It’s the one narrated by the late broadcaster Paul Harvey featuring still shots of farmers that everyone is still talking about because it […]

By Adam Bitely — Obama has successfully rekindled the flames of the minimum wage debate by calling for the federal minimum wage to increase from $7.25 per hour of work to $9.00 per hour of work while indexing the minimum wage to inflation for every […]

By Rick Manning — Criminal background checks have become all the rage in Washington, D.C., as politicians scramble to try to ensure that anyone who ever even thought of owning a gun is subjected to a thorough electronic proctology exam. However, one group that appears immune to […]