By Kevin Mooney — Left wing activists who organized the “One Nation Coming Together” event at the Lincoln Memorial earlier this month as a rejoinder to Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally fell flat in terms of attendance, energy and enthusiasm. Even the New York Times […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Friday Morning, Here are your morning Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : Federal spending cuts should start with Capitol Hill Congress pays itself handsomely Democrats are hurting business, economy Cartoon of the day, “Chilean Obama” Obamanomics paints Ohio red Voters prepare to retaliate for Obama’s overreach The reverse Smoot-Hawley act kicks in The Democratic ‘D’ now stands for Demagoguery Barney Frank’s big lie Stop bashing business, Obama Treasury’s handling of TARP: Sloppy and secret

By Rebekah Rast – The nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty ends with Humpty falling off a wall and breaking into so many pieces that it was impossible to put him back together again. Judging by the polls, it is reasonable to think that Republicans could take […]

By Frank McCaffrey – The economy is in bad shape and congressional approval ratings are low. Yet the members of congress have granted themselves a huge amount of money. Reporter Frank McCaffrey has the story on this raise in salary.

Here’s a “shocker”: U.S. companies that operate overseas are keeping profits there and investing rather than repatriating the profits — because of punitive taxation. According to Frank Aquila at Bloomberg News , there may be as much as $1 trillion of U.S. profits overseas that are simply not being repatriated. Why? Because […]

To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Thursday Morning, Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson ’s quote of the day about the current unemployment situation : “September marks the 17th straight month that unemployment has been at or above 9.4 percent—the longest period of time […]

By Frank McCaffrey – President Barack Obama is asking questions about something he has spent a lot of money on. Americans For Limited Government’s Don Todd has his take on the matter.

NRD Editor’s Note: This is the first part of a continuing series examining the battleground races in 2010 midterm elections. It’s no coincidence that the battleground states in the 2010 midterm elections are also states that have been severely hit by the Great Recession. If […]

By Howard Rich – No public official has been more integrally involved in the federal government’s “Great Intervention” than U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Over the course of three years (and two administrations), Bernanke has aggressively and successfully lobbied for trillions of dollars in […]