By Rebecca DiFede — In 1970, a senator from Wisconsin by the name of Gaylord Nelson invented a holiday to celebrate all of nature’s wonders, now known to the world as Earth Day, and celebrated each year on April 22. Throughout the years it has […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Wednesday morning, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : End the corporate welfare of the Import-Export Bank Both paper and plastic bags are now under fire The real GSA scandal Generalisimo Obama goes after speculators Another day, another Obama administration witch hunt Obama seems to have missed that greed is declining… Good economists Big Labor goes after Hostess; Better stock up on Twinkies… Let the private space race begin! Defining disability down The hypocrisy of hope and change

By Rebekah Rast — Since Earth Day is right around the corner, here is an important question: paper or plastic? When checking out at a grocery store, which bag do you prefer? There are arguments for and against both types of bags.  Paper bags require […]

By David Bozeman — There is no war on women. Still, the act of refuting such tripe obscures an insidious assault on the other half of the population.  Males, who are still deemed the dominant sex, don’t exactly fit the template of a victim class, […]

By Howard Rich — Fraud, waste and abuse in government will always be popular political targets, especially during an election year. But they are not the root causes of this nation’s escalating bankruptcy. Washington isn’t broke because the government is inefficient. It’s broke because it […]

Big Labor would rather have Hostess go under, costing 18000 jobs if a judge throws out the union contracts.  It isn’t about the employees, it is about the unions–and always has been. From CNN Money : The maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread heads to court Tuesday to […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Tuesday morning, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : Happy Tax Day… Will you have to work year-round to pay the government soon? Do taxes matter? The tax code is more progressive and European than you think End the corporate welfare of the Export-Import Bank Buffett Rule fails in Senate Obama’s Buffett Rule: The art or political pandering Do you think the Buffett Rule will ever be enacted? European governments fail to learn from history A Banana Republic, unless you can avoid it Please do tell us why you think greedy politicians will protect us from greedy businessmen?

(H/T BastiatInstitute.org )

MEMO FOR THE MOVEMENT RE: The reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank of the United States before the Bank’s current authority expires at the end of May. The Obama administration aided by politically connected corporations is seeking an extension of the Ex-Im Bank’s reauthorization and a […]

By Bill Wilson — $2.59 trillion. That’s how much the Obama Administration anticipates it will collect in taxes in 2012 .  Another $1.345 trillion will be collected by state and local governments, based on 2011 data by the U.S. Census Bureau . All together, that’s a whopping $3.935 trillion Americans pay in taxes on an annual basis — or about 24.9 percent of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In […]