NRD Editor’s Note: This column first appeared at TheHill.com . By Rick Manning — President Obama announced that he is appointing current Chief of Staff and former OMB Director Jack Lew to be the nation’s next secretary of the Treasury. Lew, whose signature featuring a bunch of loops […]

Barack Obama has just announced that Hilda Solis is resigning from her post as the Secretary of the Department of (Big) Labor. According to a Politico breaking news alert: Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is resigning from the Obama administration. “Over her long career in public service […]

By David Bozeman — We could make this a regular feature.  Just recently we profiled Papa John’s Pizza, whose founder and CEO remarked that Obamacare might force franchises to cut employee hours.  They, of course, have been enduring threats of boycotts and verbal spitballs from […]

Lachlan Markay has the story : A recent lawsuit filed in a federal court in California alleges that National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) member Richard Griffin was complicit in a scheme to cover up embezzlement at a major labor union by terminating employees who attempted to expose the effort. The allegations […]

UPDATE 2: It appears that Cyndy Chase is a BIG fan of Saul Alinskey and calls herself a big fan of Howard Zinn . H/T to Granite Grok . UPDATE: In the event that the questionable post is ever removed from BlueHampshire.com, we have the cached version of her post so that her words will forever be documented on the world wide web. Here is, word for word, exactly what Cynthia Chase wrote: Free Staters Unwelcome Here In the opinion […]

By Rick Manning — The percentage of the American workforce that is represented by labor unions has been falling precipitously over the past thirty years.  In 1983, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports that union membership was 20.1 percent of the workforce and there were 17.7 million union workers nationwide. In 2011, only […]

By Ron Arnold — Lisa Jackson’s resignation as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency has focused attention on the “unfinished agenda” she leaves for this agenda-driven agency’s next director (probably Clinton era assistant EPA administrator and current California Air Resources Board chairwoman Mary Nichols). One […]

By Robert Romano — The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Jan. 3 announced its decision in Virginia Department of Transportation vs. the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), determining the agency had overstepped its bounds in attempting to regulate stormwater as a pollutant under […]

By Rick Manning — Democrat political operatives are already sharpening their pencils to spin the fiscal cliff vote against Republicans who voted against it by claiming that they voted against a massive tax cut for the middle class. Hoping that no one will notice that their net […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This is the most current information as of 8:49 AM Eastern on January 4. By John Vinci — (Updated 1/4/2012 8:49am) Governors and other state officials, across the states, are deciding whether their state will establish a Health Insurance Exchange. The Department […]