By Kevin Mooney — Left wing activists who organized the “One Nation Coming Together” event at the Lincoln Memorial earlier this month as a rejoinder to Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally fell flat in terms of attendance, energy and enthusiasm. Even the New York Times […]

By Frank McCaffrey – The economy is in bad shape and congressional approval ratings are low. Yet the members of congress have granted themselves a huge amount of money. Reporter Frank McCaffrey has the story on this raise in salary.

Here’s a “shocker”: U.S. companies that operate overseas are keeping profits there and investing rather than repatriating the profits — because of punitive taxation. According to Frank Aquila at Bloomberg News , there may be as much as $1 trillion of U.S. profits overseas that are simply not being repatriated. Why? Because […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This is the first part of a continuing series examining the battleground races in 2010 midterm elections. It’s no coincidence that the battleground states in the 2010 midterm elections are also states that have been severely hit by the Great Recession. If […]

By Howard Rich – No public official has been more integrally involved in the federal government’s “Great Intervention” than U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Over the course of three years (and two administrations), Bernanke has aggressively and successfully lobbied for trillions of dollars in […]

By Rebekah Rast – Despite talk of America’s recovery, unemployment rates remain stagnant. Many components are at work creating this negative job environment. By not providing a secure tax future before adjourning for elections, Congress has left many businesses in limbo as to whether they […]

By Frank McCaffrey – Recent numbers from a Gallup poll differ greatly from the  unemployment situation report released from The Department of Labor. Why is that? Americans For Limited Government’s Rick Manning explains.

It was not so long ago, in 2008, that the commodities bubble was rocking the American economy. Oil marched upward almost every day, peaking at close to $150 a barrel . Right before that, gold had proceeded to over $1,000 an ounce . The American people were getting killed at the pump, with gasoline peaking at over $4 a gallon . There was much speculation at the time […]

The political establishment in Washington wants everyone to believe that there is no way to balance the budget without higher taxes. This new video debunks this myth, using Congressional Budget Office numbers to show that it is simple to get rid of red ink if […]