03.30.2012

A vote of no confidence?

By Robert Romano — What one would have given to be a fly on the wall as the House voted March 29 on the Republican Study Committee (RSC) alternative budget proposal, which ultimately found a majority of the House Republicans voting in favor of ditching the proposal […]

03.30.2012

Sunshine week overshadowed by reality

By Mark Wohlschlegel — The week of March 12, 2012 was Sunshine Week in our nation’s capital, but not all is sunny in Washington, D.C.  Sunshine Week was designed to be a national initiative to promote dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom […]

03.29.2012

House passes Ryan budget

By Bill Wilson — The House has made a small step in the right direction, adopting a budget that will reduce deficits to just $166 billion by 2018, a fraction of the current trillion dollar deficits we see every year from the Obama Administration. It would actually […]

03.29.2012

House defeats 5-year plan to balance budget

NRD Editor’s Note: The Republican Study Committee’s “cut, cap, and balance” plan was defeated by the House of Representatives by a vote of 136 to 285 moments ago. By Bill Wilson — It is disappointing that the only proposal that would balance the budget this decade has […]

03.29.2012

Must Reads for March 29

03.29.2012

Obama gets zero votes on budget—again

By Bill Wilson — For two years in a row, Barack Obama has not generated a single vote in favor of his gargantuan spending spree. So toxic are the politics of bankrupting the nation that not even congressional Democrats who are supposed to be joined at Obama’s hip want to face voters and defend his catastrophic economic policies . But perhaps the real test will be to see how many […]

03.29.2012

President Obama, New York Times Channel Woodrow Wilson as They Assault U.S. Supreme Court

By Kevin Mooney — Even if the individual mandate included within Obamacare is overturned, the administration and its leftist allies stand poised to undermine the legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court and the Constitution itself. This effort began in earnest with a front page hit piece on the New York […]

03.29.2012

Crowdfunding bill passes Congress, but did it go far enough?

By Robert Romano — Legislation that would allow stock offerings up to $1 million across state lines on the Internet to so-called “unsophisticated” investors has passed both houses of Congress, and now proceeds to the White House for President Barack Obama’s signature. Obama has signaled he will […]

03.29.2012

Fracking: An existential threat to green dogma

By Paul Driessen — The Sierra Club and other environmental pressure groups are redoubling their efforts to “stop fracking in its tracks.” No wonder. The technology is an existential threat to fundamental “green” dogmas. Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing is a true “game changer.” In […]

03.29.2012

The Supreme Court ObamaCare Debate Wraps Up

By Frank McCaffrey — Will the debate over the individual mandate lead to a complete cut for ObamaCare? What is being said about the expansion of Medicaid? ObamaCarewatcher.org’s John Vinci explains.

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