By David Bozeman — Republican vice-presidential nominee Ryan Paul recently told Fox News’ Brit Hume that, politically speaking, he grew up on Ayn Rand, particularly her novels.  Ryan lauded Atlas Shrugged for making the moral case for capitalism but expressed his disagreement with Rand’s philosophy, known […]

NRD Editor’s Note: Each day, Bill Smith of ARRA News Service , provides us with special reports on what is happening down in Tampa. Each night, ALG staff participate in a live-chat of what is happening at the convention that you can participate in . Tampa, FL  — Bill Smith: Today the delegates to the RNC 2012 in Tampa, FL had free time to take advantage […]

By Rick Manning — The economic news continues its grim march toward a reality that many believe may not be in the fixable category. Preppers, who store foodstuffs and buy hard metal assets, have become mainstream as even Costco offers a wide variety of buckets filled with […]

NRD Editor’s Note: Each day, Bill Smith of ARRA News Service , provides us with special reports on what is happening down in Tampa. Each night, ALG staff participate in a live-chat of what is happening at the convention that you can participate in . Tampa, FL  — Bill Smith: The delegates to the RNC 2012 in Tampa, FL had a very busy day yesterday with […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared at TheHill.com . By Rick Manning — The nation’s eyes are on the Gulf Coast region as the Republican Party prepares to nominate Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan to oppose the Obama/Biden ticket — and a hurricane threatens to run over […]

By Paul Driessen and David Legates — Back in 1983, during the information processing Cretaceous Period, Maxis developed a new genre of educational, yet entertaining computer games. The latest version will be released next year. SimCity allows players to build virtual cities by zoning land, […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Tuesday morning, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : More evidence that spending cuts are the best way to shrink gov’t debt — Veronique de Rugy Feds: Too few Americans turn to gov’t for assistance… — Washington Examiner Is it fair to raise prices after a natural disaster? — Don Boudreaux Cartoon: Ohio spells trouble for Obama — Branco Toons Obama’s $107 billion transportation plan to nowhere — Washington Examiner A rational discussion of the federal budget — Thomas Sowell Obama’s policies are why he’s in trouble — Chicago Sun-Times GOP fight erupts over ‘disavowing’ Paul delegates — Washington […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Monday morning, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : Obama’s pay-for-play green grants — NetRightDaily On energy, Obama rewards friends and punishes enemies — Washington Examiner Outsourcing is bad? — The Freeman FCC eyes tax on internet service… — The Hill Romney and Obama: Both wrong on Medicare — Cato GOP going for the gold standard? — NetRightDaily GM bans political candidate visits until after election day — Detroit Free-Press The not so Golden State of America — NetRightDaily Revised RNC schedule — Washington […]

By Rebekah Rast — A flood of criticism and questions surround the president’s energy agenda. Unfortunately for him, it seems his “green” energy ventures reek of biased decision making, thereby rightfully calling his agenda into question. Forbes states that 71 percent of Department of Energy grants went […]

By Robert Romano — Today, delegates at the Republican National Convention will be voting to adopt the Republican Party’s platform for 2012. Included is a proposal calling for the establishment of a “gold commission” that would reexamine whether the U.S. dollar should be “set [as] a fixed […]