By Rick Manning — Fewer and fewer Americans are represented by labor unions with only 6.6 percent of private sector workers belonging to organized labor in 2012 according to a survey released by the federal government last week. The stunning drop in private sector labor union membership […]

ALG counsel Nathan Mehrens weighs in on the Federal court of appeals decision that ruled Obama’s recess appointments in January of 2012 were not constitutional: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com

By Rick Manning Larry Kudlow needs to make up his mind. One day he writes in the Daily Caller that if the Republicans don’t force deep spending cuts they will lose the House of Representatives in 2014, and in the very same piece he urges that those same Republicans not use the upcoming topping of […]

By Chris Freind — Fire them. Fire them now! It is time to immediately boot all school administrators who had any involvement in suspending a five year old kindergartener from the Mount Carmel Area Elementary School in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. And we should require that […]

Even with the aid of the Obama White House, Big Labor can’t fool people : The nation’s unions lost 400,000 members in 2012 as the percentage of U.S. workers represented by a labor union fell to 11.3 percent, its lowest level since the 1930s – declining by 0.5 percent over the last year. … The Bureau of Labor Statistics […]

By Adam Bitely — House Republicans have turned the power of the purse over to the White House after passing H.R. 325 , a bill that suspends the debt ceiling until May 19, 2013 and threatens to withhold pay from members of Congress after April 15 if […]

By Robert Romano — To be charitable, perhaps the House never thought Obama would ever go for it. That was certainly the indication when House Republicans last week unveiled their plan for a short 4-month suspension of the debt ceiling, tied to a demand that the Senate […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared at The Washington Times . By Bill Wilson — “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel once said. “It’s an opportunity to do things that you could not do before.” This, in a nutshell, represents government’s response to […]

By Bill Wilson — When will the liberal tail stop wagging the Republican dog? This is an absurd, unserious proposal by the House Ways and Means Committee , especially when other Republicans have been coming up with serious proposals to address our fiscal problems. On one hand, it is a foolish fraud wherein Republicans are pretending […]

By Robert Romano — In 2009, when Whole Foods CEO John Mackey in a Wall Street Journal oped compared the health care “public option” then under consideration by Congress to socialism — a nationalized economic system wherein the government owns the means of production — hardly anyone batted an eyelash. Sure, at the […]