08.17.2011

Why is Europe obsessed with a central government?

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

Honda creates new manufacturing jobs—in Mexico

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

How Washington politicians see the world

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

Government Agencies Overlook Benefits of Higher Carbon Dioxide Concentrations, Scientist Tells State Lawmakers

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

Obama’s Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack: More people on food stamps means more jobs

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

Unemployment benefits creates jobs?

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

Rep. Jim Clyburn to use Super Committee to close wealth gap…

08.16.2011

Must Reads for August 16

08.16.2011

Who Speaks for the Average American—And Why It Doesn’t Matter

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

Executive Orders Threaten Representative Government and Federalism

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 […]

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