By Rick Manning – This first Obama State of the Union message in front of a divided Congress will be extraordinary theater as the president seeks to sound like the uniter people voted for in 2008, rather than the partisan leftist whose policies have driven our nation […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at IBD . By Rep. Kevin Brady – This evening, in fulfillment of Article II, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution, President Obama will give the State of the Union address. Tonight, this president is at a crossroads. Will he level with the American […]

High School relationship drama has descended once again on the U.S. Captiol. With tonight’s State of the Union address attempting to look bipartisan for the TV cameras, Congressmen and women are sitting in bipartisan twosomes. So, all the members of Congress are seeking “seat dates”. […]

Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas will be skipping tonight’s premier political theater event at the U.S. Capitol. Chief Justice Roberts will lead only 6 members of SCOTUS to the Capitol for Obama’s State of the Union address. Everyone should remember last year’s STOU […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Tuesday Morning, Here are your morning Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : The State of the Union is nothing but political theater House Budget Chairman will deliver SOTU rebuttal Paul Ryan is Dems’ new villain SEIU receives ObamaCare waivers… Obama’s pro-business optics are an illusion Rahm Emanuel tossed off Chicago ballot… Cartoon of the day, “Civility for Dummies” Grading Obama Thomas Sowell: New heroes vs. old The “green” treason Obama’s Big Business, Big Government Administration Public employee union benefits are a fiscal disaster How Obama can do more by doing less “New tone” has not taken place yet at Hardball ACORN is reborn in Brooklyn Some no’s and yes’s of ObamaCare

The Obama Administration has thrown billions into green projects and training for green jobs. The problem is, the jobs don’t exist. Host Frank McCaffrey speaks with Americans For Limited Government Communications Director Rick Manning about this. Plus, Utah Congressman Rob Bishop talks about government land in western […]

By Adam Bitely – The Constitution requires that the President deliver a message on the State of the Union to the Congress from time to time. In the beginning of our nation, this was done with little fanfare. But in the modern era, it has […]

By William Warren – Today’s toon talks about how the Democrats keep calling for civility… including the ludicrous gesture to have them and the Republicans sit next to each other at the next SOTU speech.

By Bill Wilson – It’s the same old story: The U.S. has abundant natural resources, but refuses to extract and produce them, as usual, because of environmental restrictions and regulatory costs. In the meantime, we are exporting our energy security, job security, and now, national security to […]

Three SEIU locals have received waivers from ObamaCare, CNS News reports ( we originally reported that SEIU Local 25 and SEIU Local 1199 were receiving recipients in December ). The waivers are coming to the thug-union that had been most supportive of Obama in 2008, and proudly supported the passage of ObamaCare. According to CNS News : The three SEIU chapters include the Local 25 in […]