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, […]

Due to the sequester, some entrances to Capitol Hill Congressional building have been closed. But in a sign that these entrances are merely being closed for the theater of it all, the closed entrances are still receiving regular maintenance . Odd. Here’s a picture of one of the closed entrances being painted: The […]

By Robert Romano — Shameless. There is simply no other way to describe the disgraceful “end of the world” proclamations by Democrats describing the effects of budget sequestration. The claims have bordered on the sick and twisted, such as Sen. Harry Reid’s blaming the tragic deaths of seven Marines in Nevada in an accidental explosion on sequestration cuts to “training and maintenance.” To […]

By Albert Maslar — Absent prospects for jobs after graduation, college is not worth incurring six-figure debt not counting loss of wages and entry-level job training. Today’s job market in the US and the world is dismal with real unemployment at about 14 percent and up to 25 percent in some Euro zone countries . College is over-priced, over-rated, […]