07.19.2012

Can we count on Barack Obama’s labor data?

NRD Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared at Investor’s Business Daily . By Bill Wilson — Five months ago Barack Obama nominated union backer, liberal economist and Federal Reserve bureaucrat Erica Groshen to lead the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) — the agency best known for calculating the nation’s […]

07.18.2012

House should cancel lame duck session, give country a break from political wars

NRD Editor’s Note: Sen. Jim DeMint and Sen. Lindsey Graham are calling on GOP leaders on Capitol Hill to pass a spending agreement now to avoid a lame duck session of Congress . By Bill Wilson — The House needs to give the American people a much-needed break after the November elections, no matter how they turn out, and force Washington, D.C. to quit governing by crisis. Cancel any plans for a lame duck session, and […]

07.02.2012

The politics of Obamacare going forward

By Bill Wilson — Now that the Supreme Court has ruled to uphold Obamacare, vastly expanding the taxing powers of Congress to now compel behavior to enter into commerce or engage in other activities, the fallout is being seen everywhere. “It is not our job to protect […]

06.28.2012

Germany to reject the Politeuro?

By Bill Wilson — Today in Brussels, European leaders are again convening for the umpteenth time to attempt to bring resolution to the sovereign debt crisis that is plaguing the continent — and the global economy at large. Call it the Politeuro. There, German Chancellor Angela Merkel […]

06.27.2012

Delaying fiscal cliff better than lame duck fix

By Bill Wilson — Congressional leaders are said to be considering a deal that would delay automatic spending cuts and tax increases at the end of the fiscal year through March , and be tied to a continuing resolution that needs to be passed by the end of the fiscal year on Sep. 30. Throw in a temporary extension of the debt ceiling, and that may be […]

06.26.2012

Time to get over Citizens United

By Bill Wilson — Apparently, the Montana State Supreme Court missed a rather important part of the Federal Constitution, the Supremacy Clause, in a Dec. 2011 ruling that upheld a state law prohibiting corporations from engaging in electioneering. Fortunately, the U.S. Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, stood ready […]

06.25.2012

Obama above the law on DREAM Act and executive privilege?

By Bill Wilson — In his latest expansion of his own power, on June 15 Barack Obama issued an executive action essentially and summarily granting legal status to perhaps 800,000 illegal immigrants. Whether one agrees with the DREAM Act — which would have done essentially the same […]

06.22.2012

What is the extent of Obama’s executive privilege on Fast and Furious?

By Bill Wilson — Obama’s citing of executive privilege to conceal documents in the Fast and Furious scandal is an egregious expansion of the doctrine, which is only supposed to extend to the President’s top advisors — not low-level Justice Department officials whose actions got a Border […]

06.22.2012

Will Obama comply with Supreme Court ruling?

By Bill Wilson — Obama’s radical implementation of the DREAM Act, granting legal status to perhaps one million illegal immigrants, without any vote in Congress is just the latest in a long line of usurpations .  Whether one agrees with the DREAM Act or not, we should all agree that no president is above […]

06.22.2012

Is AARP left-wing?

By Bill Wilson — Once called the American Association of Retired Persons, the AARP is the largest grassroots organization nationwide with over 38 million members. Presumably representing Americans of all political stripes, the organization states that it “helps people 50 and over improve the quality of their […]

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