By Bill Wilson — There’s a convenient explanation for the boo birds that rained down on U.S. Speaker John Boehner during last month’s Republican National Convention.  According to the GOP  insiders,  the incident wasn’t a big deal – a mere smattering of discontent emanating exclusively from supporters […]

By Bill Wilson — Mitt Romney is not backing away from comments he made at a May 17 fundraiser in Boca Raton, Florida fundraiser, captured on video, that Barack Obama’s base consists of half of Americans who do not pay income taxes, “who believe that they are […]

By Bill Wilson — So much for the separation of powers. Thanks to federal court rulings, even if Mitt Romney prevails in Nov., he will be hard-pressed to unilaterally rein in regulatory overreach by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The problems at the agency are fixable, but […]

By Bill Wilson — Obama’s unilateral gutting of the welfare work requirements under the federal welfare law renews his attempt to create an entitlement society where individuals are dependent upon the largesse of government rather than on their own initiative to live and thrive. In looking closely […]

By Bill Wilson — As CNBC host Larry Kudlow is fond of pointing out, the Federal Reserve cannot print jobs. And based on the past performance of its prior $2 trillion of quantitative easing (QE), it is hard to imagine just how another $480 billion a year […]

By Bill Wilson — Here we go again. On Sept. 13, the Federal Reserve announced a program to purchase $40 billion of mortgage-backed securities a month — at a pace of $480 billion a year. Unlike previous incarnations of quantitative easing (QE), this one is open-ended with no sunset stated or envisioned. “If the outlook for the labor market does not improve […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column was originally published at Forbes.com . By Bill Wilson — As Frankin Roosevelt observed in 1937, “The process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.” He called a strike by public workers “unthinkable and intolerable”. Now we can see why […]

By Bill Wilson — The Chicago Teachers Union is striking to protect the jobs of bad teachers. This is all you need to know about the priorities of the teachers unions. They are the problem in our education system and if we want our nation’s children to […]

By Bill Wilson — 86,000 fewer Americans have a job today than when Obama took office in January 2009.  That is the indisputable fact that this Administration cannot deny in any media spin.  In August alone, another 580,000 people left the workforce entirely.  That’s more than half […]

By Bill Wilson — What a difference seven years can make. In 2005, when then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger attempted to restore order to California’s broken fiscal house via the referendum process, taking on the public sector unions, the Democrat political machine went into overdrive to turn back the […]