By Kevin Mooney — With Obamacare set to go into effect this coming January, the small-and medium sized business that typically create most of the new jobs will be at a severe disadvantage. That’s because the new federal health care law includes provisions that discourage […]

By Rick Manning — The human tragedy that occurred in the stadium parking lot, where a professional football player killed his girlfriend and mother of his child, and himself became magnified into a gun control debate when columnist Jason Whitlock and television sports commentator Bob Costas chose […]

ANY “GRAND BARGAIN” MUST INCLUDE: 1.    NO NET TAX INCREASE 2.    NO DE-COUPLING OF TAX RATES 3.    NO SEQUESTER WITHOUT REAL SPENDING REDUCTIONS 4.    NO TWO-STEP PROCESS THAT KICKS THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD 5.    NO INCREASE TO THE DEBT LIMIT WITHOUT BUDGET CUTS and […]

By Paul Driessen — Climate alarmists are meeting in Doha, Qatar, to hammer out a new international treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol that expires this year. The US Environmental Protection Agency is poised to unleash its first wave of carbon dioxide regulations. And Congress […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column first appeared at TheHill.com . By Rick Manning — The Kinks song “Lola” tells the story of “a mixed up muddled up shook up world,” and that is how any Capitol Hill observer must feel with Washington, D.C., Republicans openly talking about agreeing […]

By Robert Romano — Is Internet the future of radio? Or will government regulation crush a budding industry? The answer to both of those questions may be yes, if one small-town band is to be believed. Cello rock band Break of Reality member Patrick Laird attributes much […]

By Kelvin Kemm — A few weeks ago, perhaps as a prologue to the “global warming disaster” convention in Doha, Qatar, South Africa’s Department of Environment Affairs took out a full-page advertisement in our country’s newspapers, promoting National Marine Week. The ad showed a map […]

By Rick Manning — What would you say to a couple which has a combined wealth of around $100 million who begged you to help them repay a $73,000 debt? I know what I’d say, and it wouldn’t be yes. In the latest audacity to come out […]

By Rick Manning — Lottery mania swept the country once again as millions of normally rational people voluntarily contribute millions of dollars into state coffers all in the hope of taking home a couple hundred million dollars. The dichotomy between the scenes of people lined up to […]

By Rick Manning — Speaker Boehner has achieved a goal that most politicians can only dream of through the consolidation of his power in the House of Representatives. He is putting his Committee Chairmen in place and has circled the wagons on his leadership team with the […]