By Kevin Mooney — Parents and students who are ambitious to switch out of failing public schools have until June 30 to become part of history. That is the cut-off date for applications to be submitted to the state education department for scholarship funds that […]

By Paul Driessen and Duggan Flanakin — The Future We Want outlined a “common vision” for planetary “sustainable development,” as proclaimed by the “Organizing Partners of the Major Group of NGOs,” to guide the taxpayer-funded Rio+20 summit that ended last week in disarray and acrimony. […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Tuesday morning, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : Time to get over Citizens United — NetRightDaily A political glossary — Thomas Sowell Obama’s enemies face tax scrutiny — Reason Dems out of cash; Cancel convention kick-off event — Bloomberg Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. takes medical leave for ‘exhaustion’ — Chicago Sun-Times Limits on FOIA allow culture of corruption to flourish — Washington Examiner Obama’s Crony Capitalism: ‘An expanding partnership between business and government’… — Campaign 2012 Blogger Aaron Walker latest swatting victim — […]

By David Nace — Despite all the rhetoric and millions of dollars spent by both sides in Wisconsin, the fundamental issue is very simple.  Should workers have the right to voluntarily join a union and pay union dues? The reason that unions were so incensed […]

By Bill Wilson — Apparently, the Montana State Supreme Court missed a rather important part of the Federal Constitution, the Supremacy Clause, in a Dec. 2011 ruling that upheld a state law prohibiting corporations from engaging in electioneering. Fortunately, the U.S. Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, stood ready […]

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 […]