99% of species and humans are ill served by the 0.1% UN and environmentalist elites By Paul Driessen and David Rothbard — The UN Conference on Sustainable Development is underway in Rio de Janeiro. This time, 20 years after the original 1992 Rio “Earth Summit,” […]

By Kevin Mooney — AFSCME delegates attending the union’s 40th International Convention in Los Angeles know they are losing the argument. But they are also convinced they can make significant inroads with the American public by retooling their message. Both of the candidates running to […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared at SEIU Monitor . Yesterday at around lunchtime, Mary Kay Henry, President of Service Employees International Union, issued an emergency email to her SEIU email list, with an urgent call to action : Collective bargaining rights are under attack – again. The “RAISE Act,” […]

By Bill Wilson — This is a tragic defeat. Enough Democrats voted with the Republicans to defeat the EPA’s crippling regulation against the coal industry, but then five GOP senators led by Lamar Alexander provided the margin of victory for the radical environmentalists . If all five had voted with their party, this regulation would have been defeated. Therefore, it is these five […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Wednesday morning, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : Obama refuses to hand over Fast and Furious documents… — NetRightDaily What happens if the Supreme Court overturns ObamaCare only in part? — NetRightDaily Cartoon: Supreme Eulogy — Warren Toons Food stamp fiasco — Wall Street Journal Romney says Rubio IS being vetter for veep — USA Today Obama’s massive debt bodes ill for long-term growth — Investor’s Business Daily Most of Obama’s memoir is fiction — Daily Mail Should government dictate your Google search results? — NetRightDaily Obama’s executive unilateralism — Cato […]

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 […]