By Bill Wilson — Within hours of his big win in Florida, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney again raised questions about whether he is in touch with the American people, telling reporters, “I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I’ll fix it.” Really? The nation has 13 million unemployed, another [...]

By Bill Wilson — Today’s announcement by the Bureau of Labor Statistics that approximately 240,000 jobs were created by the engine of the U.S. economy, America’s private sector businesses and entrepreneurs.  These job creators are moving forward because they trust that the Republican led House of Representatives will stop Obama’s threatened tax increases that would suck the very money that [...]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared at Investor’s Business Daily. By Howard Rich — Klaus Schwab, a German academic and founder of the World Economic Forum, recently proclaimed the death of capitalism as we know it — a curious critique coming from the head of an organization whose motto finds “entrepreneurship is in the global public interest.” “Capitalism, in [...]

UPDATE: Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels has signed the law, making Indiana the first Rust Belt state with a right-to-work law on the books! This is excellent news! The Indiana Senate has passes right-to-work legislation that could become law today. All it needs is Governor Mitch Daniels’s signature. If this legislation is signed, Indiana will become the first Rust Belt state [...]

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By Robert Romano — Why does Barack Obama play the politics of division on the income tax question? At the State of the Union Address Obama was at it again, quick to point out that “Warren Buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary.” It’s not that hard to understand once one looks at the numbers.  It’s less about [...]

By Bill Wilson–After an outpouring of opposition by millions of Internet users and tens of thousands of websites against the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA) and the “Protect Intellectual Property Act” (PIPA) in the House and Senate, congressional proponents of the bills have delayed votes on Capitol Hill. That is not stopping the Obama Administration, however, which has been acting [...]

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By Adam Bitely — Here is some more evidence that politicians routinely use rhetoric that sounds good, even if they don’t agree with it.  From Obama’s State of the Union address last week: I’m a Democrat. But I believe what Republican Abraham Lincoln believed: That Government should do for people only what they cannot do better by themselves, and no [...]

By Robert Romano — The economy slowed down in 2011 to “a tepid snail’s pace,” says Americans for Limited Government President, according to new data released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). In 2010, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) had grown at 3 percent in 2011, but only at 1.7 percent in 2011.  The Bureau said the slowdown was [...]