Ahead of today’s contempt vote in the House Oversight committee, Obama jumped to Holder’s aid by asserting executive privilege over the documents that he had refused to hand over to the committee. From The Hill : President Obama on Wednesday asserted executive privilege over documents sought by […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This is part 2 of a multi-part series. Click here to read part 1, What happens if the Supreme Court overturns ObamaCare? By John Vinci — This is the second of three articles examining three potential outcomes of the upcoming Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare’s constitutionality.  Yesterday we examined what […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at Forbes.com . By Howard Rich — At a U.S. Senate hearing last September Nextag CEO Jeffrey Katz testified that nearly “30 million shoppers” used his online marketplace each month, sending “over $1 billion of sales to our merchant partners.” […]

By Paul Driessen and Duggan Flanakin — Presidential candidate Barack Obama promised that his Administration would “fundamentally transform the United States of America.”  He gave a clue to exactly what he had in mind when he told now-congressional candidate Joe “The Plumber” Wurzelbacher: “When you […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Tuesday morning, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : What happens if the Supreme Court overturns ObamaCare? — NetRightDaily Expect big changes, no matter the ruling — Cato 3 fallacies in Obama’s public-sector stimulus strategy — Reason Dem hopes of taking the House dim — The Hill Will the House block the farm bill pig-out? — Cato Who are the spending cutters? — United Liberty Eric Holder’s politics of contempt — Wall Street Journal Report: Rubio not being vetted to be Romney’s veep — ABC News Corruption: DOE sent confidential loan information to loan guarantee applicant — Heritage The Washington Redskins are about to fleece Virginia taxpayers — Reason […]

By Robert Romano — Sunday, June 17 marked the 40th anniversary of the Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon Administration. The Voice of America, the propaganda wing of the federal government, heralded the event as “the most consequential political scandal in U.S. history”. Certainly, the botched break-in of Democrat Party headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. in 1972 […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared at TheHill.com . By Rick Manning — Sam Donaldson would be rolling over in his grave if he weren’t still alive. The foghorn-voiced broadcaster who boomed questions after fleeing presidents never shied away from asking the tough ones. What a difference […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This is the first of three articles examining three potential outcomes of the upcoming Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare’s constitutionality.  Today we examine what happens if the Supreme Court overturns Obamacare in its entirety. By John Vinci — Last March’s oral arguments […]

By Bill Wilson — In what passes for conservative commentary these days, National Review senior editor Ramesh Ponnuru and former Bush Treasury economist David Beckworth issued a new monetary manifesto on May 24 called “Monetary Regime Change” . In it, they claim that in the U.S. and in Europe, central […]

By Willie Soon — Regulatory actions being debated in Florida should raise bright red flags for Sunshine State residents, other U.S. states, and even other countries. On May 24, the Environmental Assessment and Restoration Division of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) issued a […]