The appointment of Richard Cordray to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau , and all acts he may take while in his post, are not worth the paper they are printed on.  Barack Obama has rammed through a phony ‘recess’ appointment when there is no recess, and now he borders on being a tyrant.  Obama cannot […]

No deal is better than a bad deal on extending the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits.  This plan will blow a $180 billion hole in the budget, and right now there are no offsetting spending cuts on the table to help pay for it.  […]

By Bill Wilson — According to former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich , employment needs to grow by at least 90,000 a month just to keep up with the growth of the population. But, since the fall of 2008 , the civilian labor force has actually shrunk from 154.7 million to 153.8 million , a contraction of about 900,000. It’s not that fertility […]

By Bill Wilson — Faced with a barrage of criticism for new legislation that professes to deal with Internet piracy, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Lamar Smith has introduced a manager’s amendment that has, according to Smith , “addressed I believe all of the legitimate concerns out there.” There’s only a small problem. It doesn’t come close to addressing all of the […]

Even with the changes proposed by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Lamar Smith, this bill will essentially criminalize the Internet, making it impossible to upload and share content.  Any service that allows for storing files or posting hyperlinks could be targeted, and on the Internet, […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This article was originally published at The Hill . By Bill Wilson — What began as an attempt to restrain foreign piracy on the Internet has morphed into a domestic “kill switch” on First Amendment freedom in the fastest-growing corner of the marketplace of ideas. Proposed […]

By Bill Wilson — Nightly Americans are bombarded with countless “news” stories of the fight in Congress over government spending and the latest crisis-filled battle over funding the government.  As the country drags itself toward the next so-called deadline of Dec. 16, the din is likely to […]

By Bill Wilson — Twenty-seven years before a massive Japanese carrier task force set sail from Hitokappu Bay in Iturup to attack the U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor, a single Japanese ship steamed southeast into Chuuk (then called “Truk”), a tiny island with a deep lagoon […]

The Senate shot down a cloture motion on Obama nominee Caitlin Halligan to serve on the D.C. Circuit Court. Senate Republicans have done the right thing by blocking a radical, unqualified ideologue, Caitlin Halligan, from taking a seat on the federal bench.  Along with Goodwin Liu, Halligan’s nomination marked a move by the Obama White House to […]

The Senate should reject cloture on D.C. Circuit Court nominee Caitlin Halligan. Not only does she have no prior experience as a judge, Halligan is yet another judicial activist who makes up the law as she sees fit, making her unfit to serve on the […]