By Rebekah Rast — Food deserts are areas in developed nations where access to fresh and healthy food is limited and inadequate. In the urban areas of Philadelphia it could be defined as convenience stores outnumbering grocery stores or markets that carry fresh produce. These […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Monday morning, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : Obama above the law on DREAM act and executive privilege? — NetRightDaily SCOTUS will decide ObamaCare Thursday; What if they overturn the mandate? — NetRightDaily With fate of ObamaCare in question, HHS cranks up ObamaCare spending — MichelleMalkin.com AFSCME feels sting of SCOTUS decision — Daily Caller SCOTUS rejects parts of Arizona immigration law — Washington Examiner Is austerity to blame for Europe’s economic woes? — Reason The Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) should sink to the bottom — George F. Will Obama backers use race as alibi for ebbing support — Michael Barone Why state solutions always result in new state solutions — Reason A fiscal history lesson — Defining […]

By Bill Wilson — In his latest expansion of his own power, on June 15 Barack Obama issued an executive action essentially and summarily granting legal status to perhaps 800,000 illegal immigrants. Whether one agrees with the DREAM Act — which would have done essentially the same […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared at The Daily Caller . By Kevin Mooney — Having already experienced a continuous string of political setbacks at the state level, one of the nation’s largest unions was jolted again Thursday when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of […]

By Bill Wilson — Obama’s citing of executive privilege to conceal documents in the Fast and Furious scandal is an egregious expansion of the doctrine, which is only supposed to extend to the President’s top advisors — not low-level Justice Department officials whose actions got a Border […]

By Bill Wilson — Obama’s radical implementation of the DREAM Act, granting legal status to perhaps one million illegal immigrants, without any vote in Congress is just the latest in a long line of usurpations .  Whether one agrees with the DREAM Act or not, we should all agree that no president is above […]

By Bill Wilson — Once called the American Association of Retired Persons, the AARP is the largest grassroots organization nationwide with over 38 million members. Presumably representing Americans of all political stripes, the organization states that it “helps people 50 and over improve the quality of their […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This is a special report from Kevin Mooney who is on the ground at the AFSCME International Convention in Los Angeles, CA. By Kevin Mooney — Competing AFSCME presidential candidates who were asked what lessons they took from  recent political setbacks offered […]

By Bill Wilson — The Obama Commerce Department is a case study of why it is so important to fight bad nominees at the secondary level. Had Obama gotten his way, the Acting Secretary would now be Terry Garcia — someone so radical Green he makes Van […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This is a special report from Kevin Mooney who is on the ground at the AFSCME International Convention in Los Angeles, CA. By Kevin Mooney — Top AFSCME officials taking part in the union’s 40th International Convention in Los Angeles are hoping […]