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 […]

Mitt Romney is fighting back against Obama’s ‘ War on Coal .’ In a campaign stop in Ohio today, Romney is highlighting the steps that the Obama administration has taken to cripple the coal industry : In a morning appearance outside an eastern Ohio mine after his campaign bus rolls into the state, the Republican presidential candidate plans to discuss a long-simmering coal country […]

Joe Biden has no shame and no morals…:

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Tuesday morning, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : Republican Keynesians come out of the woodwork to oppose sequestration — Dan Mitchell Federal gov’t loses at least $25 billion on auto bailouts… — NetRightDaily Cartoon: Obama’s Transparency — Branco Toons How Obama is robbing the suburbs to pay for the cities — Forbes Paul Ryan: Don’t believe the hype — Cato Obama’s backdoor attack on fracking — Washington Examiner Michele Obama scolds U.S. gold medal Olympian for eating an egg McMuffin — Newsbusters Union leadership opposes bill that increases their members’ pay — Daily Caller There’s no BBQ clause in the Constitution — […]