By Robert Romano — When Greece entered the Eurozone in 2001, it was with the promise that the common currency would benefit the Greek economy, facilitating trade and commerce, and crucially, lead to lower cost borrowing both privately and by the government. Now, more than ten years later, the outcome of that decision has proven to be a complete catastrophe. [...]

AMEN! From the Labor Relations Institute: The United States District Court for the District of Columbia just ruled that the NLRB lacked a valid 3-member quorum to adopt its “ambush election” rulemaking in December 2011. You can read the decision here. Since Member Brian Hayes refused to participate in the actual vote on the rule, the Court ruled that this prevented [...]

By Adam Bitely — 2012 Presidential candidate Mitt Romney makes many promises in his 2012 platform. According to one of the prominent themes on his website, Mitt will “build a simpler, smaller, smarter government.” But a close examination of his platform shows that his statement of making a “smaller” government is not exactly what he intends to do. Rather, his [...]

By Rick Manning — The U.S. House of Representatives took aim at the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) this past week by voting to prohibit the Obama-run labor board from using any funds to sue any state on the question of secret ballot elections. The House action was led by Representative Jeff Duncan (R-SC) in response to the NLRB’s litigation [...]

By David Nace — For decades we have been told that unions help the middle class.  We have heard it from unions, from politicians that receive union contributions and from a sympathetic media.  However, when one examines the facts, this claim is completely false. How can an organization that represents a small minority the workforce, just over 10%,  but whose [...]

By Paul Driessen — Unprecedented! As bills to extend seemingly perpetual wind energy subsidies were again introduced by industry lobbyists late last year, taxpayers finally decided they’d had enough. Informed and inspired by a loose but growing national coalition of groups opposed to more giveaways with no scientifically proven net benefits, thousands of citizens called their senators and representatives — [...]

By Bill Wilson — By Barack Obama’s own estimate, borrowers who take part in his mortgage refinance program could “save about $3,000 a year on their mortgage, by refinancing at historically low interest rates”, as he suggested in his Feb. State of the Union Address. Later his Administration estimated that as many as 3 million borrowers would be eligible for [...]

By Rebekah Rast — As if a war on America’s coal industry wasn’t enough, it turns out natural gas isn’t a friend to the environment either — or nuclear, hydro and in some cases wind power. What’s left? Solar?  But then there’s the uncertainty of how to properly dispose of solar panels if they break or lose their power because [...]

By Rebecca DiFede — Seeing as President Obama has sworn up and down to create more jobs but has yet to make a significant dent in the still staggering unemployment figures, the federal government has introduced some job training programs to get people geared up for new employment — for jobs that are not there. Oh boy! This solution was [...]

By Bill Wilson–By mainstream media accounts, the presidential election in France and parliamentary elections in Greece on May 6 were overwhelming verdicts against “austerity” measures being implemented in Europe. There is only one problem. It is a lie. First off, austerity was never really tried. Not really. In France for example, according to Eurostat, annual expenditures have actually increased from [...]