By Bill Wilson — Any fair reporting of Obama’s Buffett rule would reveal it to be a cynical election-year maneuver that bears no resemblance to a sound policy designed to either improve the economy or raise significant revenue to pay down the debt. Obama’s tax-the-rich proposal, which […]

By Bill Wilson — The budget cannot be balanced by raising taxes on the so-called wealthy, who happen to be the nation’s job creators. It won’t even come close. A recent Joint Committee on Taxation estimate found that raising the capital gains and income taxes to 30 percent for those who make over $1 […]

By Bill Wilson — This latest White House scheme to bail out borrowers with mortgage principal reductions using taxpayer funds is nothing more than a cynical election year ploy. This time, the goal is to build a constituency of borrowers underwater on their mortgages with the hope that they might — emphasis on might — be able to […]

By Bill Wilson — The week of April 6, the national average of gasoline prices hit $3.94, according to the Energy Information Agency, with prices continuing to rise nationwide. But economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman apparently thinks you’re not paying enough at the pump […]

By Bill Wilson — Obama’s U.S. Department of Labor loses more credibility every month as they announced a lower unemployment rate in March, while at the same time 31,000 fewer Americans actually had jobs than the previous month .  In spite of all the happy talk out of Obama’s official Washington, D.C., the fact is that fewer […]

By Bill Wilson — It is ironic that Warren Buffett continues to allow himself to be the front-man for Obama’s call for higher taxes, when his own company, Berkshire Hathaway, has outstanding tax bills going back a decade of almost $1 billion . While Buffett has every right to dispute the IRS’ tax charges, this makes him a particularly weak spokesperson for increasing taxes on […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at TheBlaze.com on April 4, 2012. By Bill Wilson — One of the most time-honored tricks in politics is the act of accusing your opponent of your own worst crime. Doing so confuses the mass of the population. It allows the […]

By Bill Wilson — So alarming were Obama’s comments that the duly enacted health care law being overturned by the Supreme Court would be ‘an unprecedented, extraordinary step,’ the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals felt compelled to issue a homework assignment to the Obama Administration . It seriously wants to know if the White House even believes courts have the power of judicial review […]

By Bill Wilson — In a recent press conference, Barack Obama suggested “overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress”, referring to the health care law, was “an unprecedented, extraordinary step”. Even if that were true, what is not new […]

By Bill Wilson — Woe unto law students who took Obama’s constitutional law class when he was a lecturer at University of Chicago Law School. His telling of history, where the Supreme Court would be ‘unprecedented’ in striking down a duly enacted law, ignores the entire 209-year […]