09.28.2012

NRD Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared at TheHill.com . By Rick Manning — Sen. Jeff Sessions (Ala.), the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, explains in better terms than I can muster why Obama’s campaign claim that his budget plan would pay down the debt is […]
09.28.2012

By Rick Manning — Hollywood is releasing another of its preachy environmental epics this fall designed to take advantage of the public’s ignorance about an oil and gas drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing or fracking for short. Producers of the 2012 environmentalist tale titled Promised Land already had their […]
09.28.2012

By Bill Wilson — The economy is slowing down — again. Second quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been revised downward to 1.3 percent growth by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), coming atop an initial estimate of 1.5 percent and a rosier revision to 1.7 percent in August. This is a trend. First quarter GDP was similarly revised downward to […]
09.27.2012

By Rick Manning — Neither a native American nor a licensed attorney, Lizzie Warren finds herself in more hot water over her charging a legal client $675 an hour for legal services in 2001. Once again, the affirmative action Harvard Law Professor has been struck with revelations that she is […]
09.27.2012

By Robert Romano — Who is that masked man, and what has he done with Mitt Romney? The more one sees and reads of Mitt Romney’s impromptu hidden camera question-and-answer session with donors in Boca Raton, Florida from May, the more one wonders why we have not […]
09.27.2012

By Rebekah Rast — The U.S. boasts 48,611 Megawatts (MW) of wind power capacity as of March 2012 . The capacity of the U.S. wind fleet could provide enough electricity to supply 10 million American homes . The key word in these facts: capacity. However, the wind doesn’t always blow and these giant turbines rarely, if ever, hit their maximum potential or capacity. […]
09.26.2012

By Rick Manning — The winner of the Obama/Pirate caption contest achieved something that is rare in this world, and actual laugh out loud, from contest judges. Among the many outstanding entries which played upon the themes of Obamacare, Pillaging, Pretending and Plunder, the winner, NAME OR […]
09.26.2012

By Mark Wohlschlegel — The Department of Defense has a new mission — to purchase and integrate 1,500 new Chevy Volts into its fleet. Who gave this order to begin “Operation Inefficient”? That’s what ALG would like to find out. Why exactly? The military line […]