By Bill Wilson — It has been four years and two months since the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,” the so-called “stimulus,” was signed into law on Feb. 17, 2009. That day, Barack Obama told the American people he was keeping his campaign promise that he would “do all that I could to give every American the chance to make [...]

By Bill Wilson — “We do not have an immediate debt crisis.” That was House Speaker John Boehner’s take on the rapidly growing $16.75 trillion national debt, speaking on ABC’s This Week. He went on to suggest that “we all know that we have one looming. And we have one looming because we have entitlement programs that are not sustainable [...]

By Rick Manning — Thursday’s headlines from Washington, D.C. will likely read that the House of Representatives passed a ten year path to a balanced budget proposed by Representative Paul Ryan. While the Ryan budget is a gigantic step in the right direction, a proposal by the House Republican Study Committee that brings the budget into balance in four years [...]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared at TheHill.com. By Rick Manning – News flash. Senate Democrats pass a budget out of committee that includes massive tax increases, dramatically increases spending, never is projected to come close to balancing the budget, and in a tip of the hat to George Orwell, they call it “balanced” in its approach. Is there [...]

By Rick Manning – Awkward. That is how the Washington Post characterized an Obama Administration request to make a permanent $65 billion pledge to the International Monetary Fund. But the request is more than just awkward, it is a window into the priorities that Obama is setting for America. At a time when Obama has gone around the country playing [...]

Bill Wilson, president of Americans for Limited Government, issued the following statement in reaction to announced plans of the House GOP to pass a continuing resolution to fund the federal government through September 30, 2013 today. “It is incredible that the House of Representatives in its zeal to avoid any conflict is throwing away its only constitutional leverage to stop [...]

UPDATE: A park ranger has revealed that supervisors are attempting to make cuts only to parts where the public will see in a way to make them feel the pain. As FoxNews reported: A U.S. park ranger, who did not wish to be identified, told FoxNews.com that supervisors within the National Park Service (NPS) overruled plans to deal with the [...]

By Rick Manning — The sequester conversation has been all the buzz over the past couple of days in the Washington, D.C. area. Pastors talked about it in sermons, and neighbors worried about how the uncertainty of what might occur could possibly affect them. As the home to the largest number of federal workers and other contractors reliant upon the [...]

Finally. Obama has decided to retreat back to his 2011 rhetoric where sequester was not a bad thing. Just a month ago, Obama was saying that the sequester would “imperil our economy, our national security (and) vital programs that middle class families depend on.” Further, it would be a “a huge blow to middle-class families and our economy as a [...]

By Adam Bitely — If you are reading this, you have survived sequestration. The world didn’t end. Food is still safe to eat. Planes are landing safely on runways. Invading armies are not storming our shores. And life is continuing on normally just as it was yesterday. This fact must be making the heads of Washington, D.C. politicians explode. For [...]