By Bill Wilson — Time for a little history lesson. Sequestration may in fact have been Obama’s idea, but it was brought to the floor in the House of Representatives not once , but twice by Republican leaders. There, it was approved not once , but twice . In the Senate it passed easily with bipartisan […]
By Bill Wilson — 41 percent. That was all the Euro establishment in Italy could get to vote in favor of ceding sovereignty to the European Union in that country’s latest parliamentary elections . The elections came after former Prime Minister Mario Monti stepped aside after his unpopular budget was adopted. The […]
NRD Editor’s Note: This column was originally published at Forbes.com. By Bill Wilson — In a city known for its perpetual evasion of responsibility and chronic shifting of blame, Washington D.C.’s sequester debate is more of the same — albeit with an interesting twist. Ordinarily spending debates in our […]
By Bill Wilson — Everything we will ever need to know about the Obama Administration may come down to a single decision. And that is whether Obama, along with newly sworn in Secretary of State John Kerry, approve the Keystone XL pipeline from the Alberta tar sands to the U.S . For, contained in that decision is not just […]
By Bill Wilson — A Feb. 14 Wall Street Journal editorial calls on New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to veto legislation that would require projects in state costing $5 million or more to utilize project labor agreements (PLAs), pointing to two studies that ought to give the Governor pause. This is an important issue, […]
By Bill Wilson — “I propose working with states to make high-quality preschool available to every single child in America.” That was Barack Obama’s State of the Union plan to dramatically expand the current $8 billion a year Head Start program administered by the Department of Health […]
By Bill Wilson — Obama could not have been clearer. Or more disingenuous. “[If Congress won’t act soon to protect future generations, I will,” he said in his Feb. 12 State of the Union Address. “I will direct my cabinet to come up with executive actions we […]
By Bill Wilson — Reporting annually on the “State of the Union” is one of the few founding principles U.S. President Barack Obama has bothered to honor over his first four years in office. Article II, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution states that the President “shall […]
By Bill Wilson — NBC News sent shockwaves throughout the nation’s capital when it released a Department of Justice memo providing the legal basis for the federal government to invoke its war powers against U.S. citizens, targeting them for assassination. The memo deliberately limited its focus to “the circumstances in which the […]
