From Sen. Ron Johnson’s website : The root cause of our economic and fiscal problems is the size, the scope, and the cost of government – all the rules, all the regulations, and all the government intrusion into our lives. Over-regulation consumes massive amounts of the people’s money, too often […]

By Chris Skates — “Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying on our backs and hugging the elusive phantom of hope, until our enemies have bound us hand and foot?”—Patrick Henry I don’t know […]

By Ron Arnold — “What if climate change appears to be just mainly a multi-decadal natural fluctuation? They’ll kill us probably.” This private musing between two climate scientist colleagues first surfaced along with a whole raft of embarrassing material in 2011, when the anonymous Climategate […]

By Rick Manning — Hell must have frozen over this past weekend as the U.S. Senate broke a four year record of intransigence and failure as it unleashed a blizzard of votes that culminated with the passage of a budget document that reveals the plans and priorities […]

By Robert Romano — How can deposits in Cyprus be unavailable for withdrawal, and yet somehow available for taxation? This has been a burning question for me as I have observed the banking crisis in the Mediterranean island nation — where banks have faced heavy losses on […]

By Paul Driessen — Gina McCarthy, President Obama’s choice to replace Lisa Jackson at the Environmental Protection Agency, has been chastised for having lied to Congress, in claiming that EPA did not use “dangerous manmade climate change” to justify new 54.5 mpg standards for cars […]

By Adam Bitely — Republicans in Congress have a problem reducing the size and scope of the federal government. Far too often, they introduce watered-down legislation that they hope will not be torn to shreds by the media. This strategy has failed to pay off. […]

By Rick Manning — The U.S. Post Office is in financial trouble. It is no secret.  Everyone knows it.  And the only way out is for Congress to change some of the laws that dictate to the USPS how it should be operated. Unfortunately, expecting our elected […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared at The Washington Times . By Bill Wilson — A massive embezzlement case in Mexico involving the leader of Latin America’s largest labor union should send shivers up and down the spines of American workers. It should also force the administration of Barack […]

By Rick Manning — Richard Griffin, Jr. has had a rough 2012, and 2013 doesn’t look much better. For Griffin, 2012 started brightly as he was given a recess appointment to the National Labor Relations Board and was sworn in as a Board Member on January 9, […]