By Rebekah Rast – “The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.”—Franklin D. Roosevelt There has not been a leader of this country that didn’t stress the importance of educating America’s youth. Even Obama, very recently in his State of the Union address, acknowledged , “Over the next 10 […]

By Frank McCaffrey – A part of Obamacare known as the Medical Loss Ratio can be devastating to a number of people. Americans For Limited Government has analyzed this and reporter Frank McCaffrey has the story.

By Howard Rich – Over the last decade, America’s leaders chose to address the unsustainable growth of an already bloated federal government by spending unprecedented amounts of borrowed money. First there was George W. Bush’s “compassionate conservatism,” a wholesale abandonment of the Republican view of […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Wednesday Morning, Here are your morning Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : Obama’s spending “freeze” Fact checking Obama and his imbalanced ledger Obama’s SOTU: What crisis? Regulations and rhetoric The speech was nothing but theater Obama’s uninspired State of the Union Rep. Kevin Brady’s reaction to the State of the Union Cartoon of the day, “The State of the Union” Can-do collectivism The great misallocators Uncertainty continues to depress jobs The myth of a divided America Dear AmericaFirst

By David Bozeman – A prevailing myth, common among both liberals and conservatives, is that America is sharply divided, with roughly 35 percent of us liberal (though most polls put that number around 20), 35 percent conservative, with the remaining 30 that could go either […]

Americans For Limited Government spoke with Texas Representative Kevin Brady about the State of the Union address. Brady addresses, among other things, Obama’s interest in unity. Reporter Frank McCaffrey has the story.

By William Warren – Here is my take on the state of the “union”.

By Robert Romano – On January 25th, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell declined to criticize Barack Obama for avoiding entitlement reform in his State of the Union Address. “I’m not surprised he’s not going to say what he’s going to do on entitlements. I wouldn’t either,” he […]

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 […]