By Kelvin Kemm — The COP-18 environmental conference held in Doha has come and gone. In the wake of high expectations for a successor treaty, the Kyoto Protocol was extended, but only after bitter debate — and several countries have withdrawn from the process or […]

By Robert Romano — On Jan. 15, the House of Representatives easily passed legislation costing more than $50 billion legislation that would, in part, fund disaster relief for communities deeply affected by Hurricane Sandy. The trouble is that the House had an opportunity to pay for the […]

By Adam Bitely — We are a little less than a year away from Obamacare’s individual mandate becoming the latest tax you will be forced to deal with and already there is trouble in the air with whether or not the law will work. The […]

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By Bill Wilson — It is disheartening and sad to see the House Rules Committee block many amendments that would have trimmed billions of pork from the hurricane disaster relief bill that had nothing to do with Hurricane Sandy. That said, two amendments that did manage to get through the rules process offered by Representatives Mick Mulvaney and Rob Bishop merit passage. The Mulvaney amendment include $17 […]

By Rick Manning — Newly elected North Dakota Senator Heidi Heitkamp most likely solidified her re-election for life in the first week of serving in the U.S. Senate when she waded into the gun control debate by refusing to take the bait from those seeking to restrict […]

By Paul Driessen — Policy integrity. Ethical culture. Environmental protection. Environmental defense. Friends of earth. Defenders of wildlife. Ethical investing. Not just their names, but their charter, culture and policies – their very being – represent a commitment to these profound values. Or so we […]

By Adam Bitely — Republicans in Congress have a real chance to show that they are serious about cutting spending with the upcoming sequestration cuts. If they hold firm on this, this will be the first example that they are willing to actually make cuts […]

By Rick Manning — One staff person at Current TV expressed disdain for former Vice President Al Gore, Jr.’s decision to sell the television property to Al Jazeera saying, “Al was always lecturing us about green. He kept his word about green all right — as in cold, hard cash!” Another Current staffer is reported to have remarked, “He [Al Gore, Jr.] has no credibility.  He’s supposed to […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column was first published at Investors.com . By Bill Wilson — For much of its 236-year history, the federal government has accumulated new power by whittling away at the essential protections afforded to American citizens under the U.S. Constitution. In recent years this wholesale […]