By Robert Romano — Everyone knows that few lawmakers actually take the time to read the laws they are passing. But one might think that an organization treated by the New York Times in this case as an authority on the impending March 1 sequestration cuts due […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared at TheHill.com . By Rick Manning — The Groundhog Day New York Times headline screamed, “Top Donors to Republicans Seek More Say in Senate Races.” Now there’s a man bites dog.  Big money wants more power.  Who’da thunk it? Steven J. Law, president of American […]

By Paul Driessen — Companies everywhere extol their sustainable development programs and goals. Sustainability drives UN programs like Agenda 21, EU and US green energy initiatives, and myriad manufacturing, agricultural, forestry and other efforts. But what is sustainability? What is — or isn’t — sustainable? […]

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 […]