By Adam Bitely — Let’s get this part out of the way first: Rick Santorum is a better friend of limited government than Barack Obama. How much better is the part that is up for debate. The former Senator from Pennsylvania is all the rage this week coming off his stunning second place finish in Iowa. Finishing just 8 votes [...]

The Richmond Tea Party in Richmond, VA is being audited by the City of Richmond. This audit request comes after the group requested an investigation of Occupy Richmond to see whether or not they had paid for the proper permits as well as other services necessary to hold a protest/gathering in the city. As Virginia Right reported previously, the Richmond [...]

By Kevin Mooney — Momentum continues to build for a National Debt Relief Amendment (NDRA) designed to give the American people a greater say before Congress acts to increase the flow of red ink. In just the past few weeks, state legislators in Montana, Ohio, Texas, and Wisconsin committed themselves to proposing the following language: “An increase in the federal [...]

By Adam Bitely — Can anyone remember a time when Congress had a decent approval rating? Didn’t think so. Every couple of election cycles or so, a wave of frustration at Congress sweeps the nation and voters change the partisan makeup of the House and Senate. Within a relatively short time, the electorate becomes frustrated again with the “partisan grid-lock” [...]

By Anita MonCrief — The sometimes strange and increasingly alarming “age of Obama” continues to bring the average American startling and upsetting news. The ever reliable Vice President Joe Biden stepped in to add insult on top of injury to the growing number of Americans who identify themselves as part of the Tea Party. From Biden’s equation of the Tea [...]

By Robert Romano – Patriotic Americans who see the nation teetering on the brink of financial ruin and demand real reforms to rein in the spiraling debt are an imminent threat to the Republic. That was apparently Joe Biden’s take on tea party demands that any increase to the national debt ceiling be accompanied by trillions of reduced borrowing.  “They [...]

NRD Editor’s Note: The excellent post below first appeared at Fits News. By Talbert Black, Jr. — Friends of South Carolina, you can have access to a politician, or you can have power to influence him. You can’t have both! I have gained some experience over the last three years in moving politicians to do what they don’t want to. [...]

By Kevin Mooney – When the history of the Obama Administration is written, astute observers are likely to note that one of the great unintended consequences has been a revival of federalism. This is true not just in a theoretical sense, but in terms of states actua lly reasserting their authority in the realm of public policy. Throughout the country, [...]

By Kevin Mooney — Just prior to the one year anniversary of the moratorium on Gulf of Mexico, Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) has announced that he will introduce the Agency Moratorium Act. The legislation would require congressional approval for expansion of federal regulations restricting energy exploration on federal lands and the Outer Continental Shelf that could provide domestic natural resources [...]

By Robert Romano – It was a telling moment in America’s political discourse. It hinted at how Republicans might govern should they reclaim a majority in one or both houses of Congress in 2010. “We need to capture this lightning in a bottle,” former Virginia Republican Congressman Tom Davis said of the tea party movement in 2009. Tellingly, he added, [...]