By Rick Manning The positive and negative impacts of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) will be examined by a special working group within the House Resources Committee. The goal of the working group is to seek answers to the following questions: How is ESA success defined? How do we measure ESA progress? Is the ESA working to achieve its goals? [...]
By Marta H. Mossburg If the Tribune Company were Biblical Egypt, the Koch brothers buying its papers would be the 11th plague. They are probably behind billions of red, bulgy-eyed cicadas poised to swarm the East Coast this year, too. Or so think many liberals. So bad is the perception of the pair of billionaire industrialists known for their support [...]
By Robert Romano Congressional Democrats continued with a common theme focusing on whether 501(c)(4) organizations, which do not have to disclose donors publicly, should be allowed to engage in any political activity at a May 22 House oversight hearing on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) targeting of tea party and other groups. Over and over, Democrats have repeatedly — and [...]
By Willie Deutsch During yesterday’s IRS hearing, Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WIS) stated, “If there is a silver lining in the IRS’s wrongdoing, it’s that it has united Republicans and Democrats against a common enemy: that evil IRS.” The IRS scandal isn’t the only one to unite Americans. We’ve seen a blistering attack on the Obama administration about the Benghazi attacks, [...]
By Bill Wilson In a recent eye-opening piece by Zerohedge.com, “Thanks to QE Bernanke has injected foreign banks with $1 trillion in cash for the first time ever,” the highly trafficked financial blog notes that as quantitative easing has increased, so have foreign bank cash assets. In fact, since 2009, as the Fed has loaded up on U.S. treasuries and [...]
By Rick Manning It was a joke, right? Nothing more than a way for those, like me, who oppose President Obama’s policies to make light of his seeming dependency on a teleprompter to speak publicly. The teleprompter was almost Garry Trudeau-esque in the ease which it could be substituted for an image of Obama. YouTube video footage abounded of Obama [...]
Cartoon by William Warren On the eve of a major Obama foreign policy speech, Eric Holder admits in a letter to Patrick Leahy that four Americans have been killed in drone strikes. NRD Editor’s Note: As always, you may reprint this cartoon anywhere you please, but we ask that you provide a link back to this source. To see more cartoons, click here.
By Rick Manning The former IRS Commissioner, Douglas Shulman, who was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2008, is a former Democrat whose wife has a history of contributing to Democrat campaigns including a $2,000 contribution to the John Kerry presidential campaign in 2004. In an ironic twist, during Shulman’s appearance before the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee, [...]
Within hours of a catastrophic tornado hitting Oklahoma, resulting in at least 24 deaths, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) took to the floor of the Senate to blame “Republicans run[ning] off the climate cliff like a bunch of proverbial lemmings.” He claimed “cyclones in Oklahoma” were caused by supposed man-made climate change driven by carbon emissions. There’s only one problem. Tornadoes [...]
By Rick Manning The idea that no man is above the law stands as one of the fundamental tenets of our nation. The simple concept that the United States is a nation of laws and not men or women has been at the heart of equal protection under the law whether one is the President of the United States or [...]
