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 […]

By Bill Wilson — It is disappointing that within a mere 14 months into the House Republican majority, they appear to be giving up on the principles that got them elected in 2010. Rep. Mike Rogers has openly called for abandoning reforms to the appropriations process by potentially lifting the ban on earmarks . This is being proposed as a legislative sweetener so leadership has an easier […]

By Bill Wilson — The die has been cast. By now, the Supreme Court has voted on all aspects of Florida v. The Department of Health and Human Services, the majority and dissenting opinions all assigned. But nobody will know the result until on or about July […]

By Bill Wilson — The House has made a small step in the right direction, adopting a budget that will reduce deficits to just $166 billion by 2018, a fraction of the current trillion dollar deficits we see every year from the Obama Administration. It would actually […]

NRD Editor’s Note: The Republican Study Committee’s “cut, cap, and balance” plan was defeated by the House of Representatives by a vote of 136 to 285 moments ago. By Bill Wilson — It is disappointing that the only proposal that would balance the budget this decade has […]

By Bill Wilson — For two years in a row, Barack Obama has not generated a single vote in favor of his gargantuan spending spree. So toxic are the politics of bankrupting the nation that not even congressional Democrats who are supposed to be joined at Obama’s hip want to face voters and defend his catastrophic economic policies . But perhaps the real test will be to see how many […]

By Bill Wilson — In the first part of “The ‘new’ normal,” we analyzed the dilemma faced by fiscal reformers seeking to make budgetary cuts or even balance budgets in advanced economies that have active central banks. Namely, if central banks around the world can just engage in unadulterated monetary expansion to enable profligate governments […]