To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Monday morning, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : Chicago teachers union goes on strike — NetRight Daily Chicago bled dry by striking teachers’ unions — John Fund Why Chicago teachers are striking despite a 16% pay raise over 4 years — Reason Official trailer for Atlas Shrugged part 2 released! — NetRight Daily FBI’s sinister new $1 billion project will track every by their face… — Gizmodo GM loses $49,000 on each Chevy Volt — Reuters Illinois doc diagnoses ObamaCare in one great sentence — Investor’s Business Daily College bubble is headed for a big burst — Daily Beast Should majorities decide everything? — LearnLiberty.org The insatiable taxman — […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared at The Flash Report . By John Fleischman — Apparently the Board of Directors of the California Chamber of Commerce is meeting tomorrow at the posh Casa Del Mar Resort located right on the beach in Santa Monica.  It’s a stunning […]

By Willie Soon and William M. Briggs — Scientists have been studying solar influences on the climate for over 5000 years. Chinese imperial astronomers kept detailed sunspot records. They noticed that more sunspots meant warmer weather. In 1801, the celebrated astronomer William Herschel (discoverer of […]

By Kevin Mooney — For too many Americans, voting has become a matter of mere convenience, rather than a serious civic responsibility, John Fund, a National Review columnist, has told television correspondents in recent interviews. While there are legitimate reasons to vote by way of absentee […]

By Robert Romano — Since Jan. 2009, the labor force participation rate of college graduates has dropped significantly — from 77.6 percent to 75.5 percent today. That may not seem like much, but it represents more than 1.34 million graduates who should have entered the labor force […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Friday morning, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : Fewer Americans employed now than when Obama took office — NetRight Daily Record 88,921,000 not in labor force… — CNS News Labor force participation rate lowest in 31 years — Reason The campaign of wrong ideas vs. no ideas — Jonah Goldberg Let the wind production tax credit expire — NetRight Daily Woodward’s devastating account of Obama — Washington Examiner Dem debt solutions: Tax the rich and spend more money — Reason DNC delegates: Let’s ban corporate profits — Human Events Clinton spins fairy tale on Obama’s welfare changes — Washington Examiner […]

By Bill Wilson — What a difference seven years can make. In 2005, when then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger attempted to restore order to California’s broken fiscal house via the referendum process, taking on the public sector unions, the Democrat political machine went into overdrive to turn back the […]

64 organizations and the millions of people that they represent are calling on members of Congress to allow the Wind Production Tax Credit to expire. The tax credit, implemented in 1992 to spur development of wind energy, has failed to yield the desired result of […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Thursday morning, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : Obama: the real radical — George F. Will Will voters fire Obama? — NetRight Daily Solyndra in the house at the Democratic National Convention… — Reason Strife over platform at DNC — RealClearPolitics Cartoon: Democratic party platform — Warren Toons Denialist Democrats — Reason Better off? Let’s count the ways we’re not — Investor’s Business Daily Fixing Medicare requires seniors to pay quite a bit more — Cato Is Romney’s 12 million jobs pledge realistic? — RealClearMarkets Can this marriage be saved: libertarians and the GOP — […]

By Kevin Mooney — New Jersey Republican delegates to the National Convention in Tampa, Fla. credited Gov. Chris Christie for vetoing a bill to create a health care exchange system earlier this year that could prove costly over time. Under the Patient Protection and Affordable […]