08.17.2011

By Robert Romano – As the situation in Europe continues to unravel, with each concurrent intervention by central planners unable to stem the sovereign debt crisis, policymakers appear to be at a loss of what to do next — besides engage in yet more interventions. Not long […]
08.17.2011

By Rick Manning – Last week, Japanese automaker, Honda, announced a decision to spend $800 million to open another plant in North America to produce the exact kind of sub-compact vehicle that will help them meet the overly ambitious mileage guidelines laid out by the Obama Administration. Honda has […]
08.17.2011

NRD Editor’s Note: This week William Warren, our cartoonist, is on vacation. The below cartoon is one of his finer works from back in 2009 and we are featuring that in place of the regularly new cartoon that would have been released today. Cartoon By […]
08.16.2011

By Kevin Mooney — Government agencies and international institutions that have worked tenaciously to vilify carbon dioxide (CO2) as a dangerous pollutant have done a great public disservice, Dr. Craig Idso, a scientist and author told audience members at the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) […]
08.16.2011

Wes Moore: “Mr. Secretary, good morning. Many people don’t know that actually food stamps fall under the Department of Agriculture. And a report was just released that nearly 1 in 7 Americans now are currently on food stamps. What strategies — what’s being done right […]
08.16.2011

If unemployment benefits created jobs, as Jay Carney the Press Secretary for Obama explains below, then why hasn’t the Obama administration pushed for a nationwide program for putting all Americans on unemployment insurance so that job creation flourishes? These folks have proven that they will […]
08.16.2011

By David Bozeman – Republicans are the party of the rich, or so I am told. While I consider myself, in terms of political/ideological identity, a constitutional conservative first, I do often vote for Republicans, thus friends and family ponder how a guy like me, […]
08.16.2011

By Rebecca DiFede – Executive orders have become a common topic in the news recently ever since Obama announced his intention to issue one that will require businesses and individuals bidding on federal contracts to reveal their political donations to the civil servants who are […]