By Adam Bitely — On Friday, the unemployment rate increased for the second month in a row to 7.9 percent as 126,000 more Americans reported that they were unemployed in January than in December. To make matters worse, the number of Americans reporting that they […]

By Robert Romano — Remember the 2009 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a memo on supposed right-wing extremism ? It was the one that defined the ideology as “groups, movements, and adherents that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority” and “groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition […]

Americans for Limited Government today urged a House subcommittee to defund the West Point Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) after it released a study on terrorism that Wilson said is targeted against regular Americans. “Not one more dime of taxpayer money should be wasted on CTC, […]

A new report from the Pew Research Center finds that a majority of Americans believe the members of Congress are the problem and not the system. Further, they find that a majority of Americans believe that the federal government threatens their personal rights: As Barack Obama begins his second term in office, trust […]

By David Bozeman — The idea that the Democratic Party — or Washington, D.C. in general — seeks to preserve the middle class is so much political theater. Furthermore, doesn’t the idea of a middle class pre-suppose a lower class, which necessarily denotes class inequality? And doesn’t that […]

By Bill Wilson — The next major budget battle in Washington, D.C. is the $85 billion of sequestration cuts to budgeting authority due to take effect on March 1. Originally agreed to in August 2011 in exchange for increasing the debt ceiling by $2.1 trillion, sequestration was supposed to have accounted for $109 billion of average, annual cuts . But […]

By Adam Bitely — The decision from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals last Friday that ruled Obama’s recess appointments in January of 2012 were illegal has elicited the following response from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB): So what? Specifically, the Chairman of the […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column first appeared at The Daily Caller . By Bill Wilson — Individuals enlisting in the U.S. Armed Forces must swear an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” But what happens when the only crime […]

By Paul Driessen — Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman has approved his state’s portion of the Keystone XL pipeline, explaining that its revised route avoids areas that critics had earlier claimed were environmentally sensitive. The Alberta-to-Texas pipeline would create more than 5,500 Nebraska jobs during its construction period […]

By Bill Wilson — Sequester was originally supposed to be for $109 billion, but since then these cuts to budget authority have already been reduced to $85 billion during the fiscal cliff negotiations. They must not be reduced any further.  The House can attempt to find offsetting […]