NRD Editor’s Note: This column first appeared at TheHill.com . By Rick Manning — In the days of yore, Obama’s appearances caused class cancellations; excited crowds of breathless students lined up early in the morning to just be in the presence of the great man. Obama’s visit to […]

By Rick Manning — Foreign policy debates tend to make Americans hit the snooze button, and the debate last night was no different. A responsible challenger cannot really make substantive attacks on a sitting president’s policies or on-going actions because to do so provides aid and comfort […]

By Kevin Mooney — Losing New Hampshire could mean losing it all for the Obama campaign. After reportedly pulling back on Florida, Virginia and North Carolina, where Gov. Mitt Romney is surging, the Obama campaign has settled on the Granite State as one of its must-wins. That’s far from […]

By Rebekah Rast — Hard times can fall on anyone. Joe Kerekes, 56, and his wife, Anita, live in the southern part of West Virginia—once the heart of America’s coal producing region.  But now this area that heavily depended upon a single industry for jobs […]

By Mark Wohlschlegel II — In a state that generally votes Republican, this year’s Senate race between Democrat nominee Heidi Heitkamp and Republican former U.S. House Representative Rick Berg has become a dead heat with two weeks to go. Why so close?  Many political analysts […]

By Paul Driessen — Governor Mitt Romney strongly supports North American energy independence as the foundation of renewed U.S. employment and prosperity. President Obama is waging war on fossil fuels, job creation, and efforts to end our economic recession and reduce dependence on Middle Eastern […]

By Rebekah Rast — In the second presidential debate, President Obama and Gov. Romney had a difference of opinion on the facts about America’s energy development. President Obama : “So here’s what I’ve done since I’ve been president. We have increased oil production to the highest levels […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column was originally published at Forbes.com . By Bill Wilson — Selective outrage has long been the professional left’s stock-in-trade, but the over-the-top invective hurled at U.S. Court of Appeals judge Brett Kavanaugh this week has exposed something darker and more sinister than garden […]

By David Bozeman — I guess I qualify.  Though a two-story house in the suburbs has eluded me, I am by no means impoverished.  But therein lies my point — I do not know where I rank economically, at least not down to the dollar.  […]

By Rick Manning — Joe Biden got one thing right in his debate with Paul Ryan – the next four years are likely to bring multiple picks to the Supreme Court of the United States and the implications have never been more important for Montanans who support […]