By Rick Manning — The airwaves are overrun with Obama ads saying all sorts of bad things about Mitt Romney and making some incredible claims about the current president’s budget plans for the future.  Two of these claims just scream for correction, one because it has disastrous […]

By Mary Kay Barton — Local, state, and federal political favors have created an artificial and unsustainable industry:  industrial wind power. Voters in every state need to understand what is going on in New York, so that the same things don’t happen to them. Enormous […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Thursday morning, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : What is the EPA hiding? — NetRightDaily 165 million Americans are dependents of the state — NetRightDaily Cartoon: Media narratives for dummies — Warren Toons Obama’s racial politics — Artur Davis Making populism serious: The case of Social Security — Bryan Caplan Obama missed his moment on entitlements — Fox News General Motors is headed for bankruptcy–again! — Forbes Obama has learned nothing about bailing out bad companies — Washington Examiner What’s really in the Ryan budget — Cato Would Romney and Ryan return us to the Bush years? — Reason […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column was originally featured at Forbes.com . By Bill Wilson — Is America descending into a dependency state, where the majority uses its voting power to demand government services from taxpayers? New research from Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee Jeff Sessions (R-AL) reveals that this reality may already be here, with more than 107 […]

By Adam Bitely — The introduction of Paul Ryan into the presidential race breathes new life into an election cycle where the important issues of the day were being pushed to the side for trivial back-and-forth’s on issues that have no bearing on federal government […]

By Rick Manning — The Environmental Protection Agency has been a lightning rod for controversy during the Obama Administration as they have pushed the applications of the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act to their limits in seeking to control all land use across the […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Wednesday morning, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : Biden: ‘[Republicans] going to put ya’ll back in chains’ — NetRightDaily Obama’s $25 billion government motors lemon — Investor’s Business Daily ‘Too Big to Fail’ has become a permanent bailout program — Forbes Boehner calls TARP opponents knuckle draggers — RedState EPA’s hazy outlook threatens to bankrupt coal-fired power plants — NetRightDaily When prophets are false — Washington Examiner Yes, ObamaCare cuts Medicare more than Romney would — Forbes More data on the libertarian roots of the tea party — Cato Free Trade and Tobacco: Protectionism still not worth it — […]

Today’s quote of the day comes from the always wise, Steve Horwitz : “The federal budget is not a reflection of our moral priorities as a country (as if such a thing even makes sense), it is a reflection of what garners votes for the members of […]

By Rebekah Rast — The nearly five million visitors to the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona each year stare in awe at the canyon’s long 277 river miles that can be up to 18 miles wide and about a mile deep . However, even amidst this beauty, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is focused on the haze in the national park and says it is coming from a very important electricity source in the area. The Navajo Generating Station (NGS), a […]

By Robert Romano — The “new normal” — a Ship of State lost at sea in economically turbulent waters — will not be undone merely with a changing of the guard. So proclaims one of the principal authors of the hypothesis that after the financial crisis the […]