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 […]

A Democrat in the New York Assembly begged a Republican not to share a list of proposed (they ultimately were never brought to the floor) gun control laws that New York Democrats had hoped to adopt. Here is the exchange that happened in the NY Assembly: […]

By Rick Manning — Hollywood is doing everything they can to kill the hydraulic fracturing technique for releasing oil and natural gas out of the ground in quantities that are beyond any futurist’s imagination.  The recent Matt Damon box office failure Promised Land even reportedly changed its ending when the facts got in the way of their neatly packaged attempt to demonize the fossil fuel extraction method . The fact […]

By Robert Romano — The National Weather Service called for a moderate snowstorm in the Washingon, D.C. area on Jan. 17. In the evening leading up to it, I expressed some skepticism as the temperatures were hovering around 45 degrees, and typically for there to be real […]