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 […]

By Rick Manning — January 22, 2013 will be remembered for a number of things.  It is the first day after President Obama’s second inaugural, and it marks the second day of his final term in office.  Yes, only 1,458 days until he finally leaves. But there […]

Some great news from Rasmussen : Two-out-of-three Americans recognize that their constitutional right to own a gun was intended to ensure their freedom. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 65% of American Adults think the purpose of the Second Amendment is to make […]

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By Adam Bitely — Those in favor of cutting spending from the federal government’s budget have several battles ahead where significant cuts can be achieved. For the first time since the summer of 2011, when Republicans rolled over to Obama on the last debt ceiling […]