By Rick Manning The incredibly positive economic data that keeps coming out from both private and public sector sources leads to one overriding question: Will the Trump economic detractors ever get tired of being wrong? Over the course of the past six months, we have heard how […]

By Rick Manning What happens when a real hero who comes home from war unbroken, breaks? That is the rest of the story of the World War II hero, Louie Zamperini, which was left untold in the 2014 hit movie Unbroken.  Fortunately, Universal Pictures, PureFlix and WTA […]

By Rick Manning San Francisco, California is rapidly becoming the punchline to a national joke.  The latest?  It is now more difficult to get a straw or coffee stirrer in the City by the Bay, than to get a free needle to inject yourself with dangerous illegal […]

By Rick Manning As originally published at PJMedia.com. The bedrock of American commerce – and of the broader capitalist experiment – has always been competition.  If you can build a better mousetrap, invent a longer-lasting light bulb or more efficiently churn out widgets (or in this case, clichés), odds are your endeavor […]

By Rick Manning As originally published at FoxNews.com. If you want to drain the swamp, you need to be able to fire the swamp. President Trump, Congress and public employee unions (the defenders of the swamp) all know this. You need to know this because this Labor Day the battle over public […]

By Rick Manning The AT&T/Time Warner merger may have passed scrutiny by Federal District Court Judge Richard Leon, but an unlikely source came riding into the picture making its future survival during the appeals process very problematic, and that is good news. In his decision, Judge Leon […]

By Rick Manning “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted […]

By Rick Manning President Trump promised in 2016 that the forgotten men and women would be brought back into the economy. Now the July employment numbers, released Friday, confirm that those who have been left behind over the past two decades are beginning to find their places […]

By Rick Manning Americans for Limited Government is encouraged that Attorney General Sessions is appealing a recent court ruling which allows AT&T to move ahead with its plans to merge with Time Warner. This is good and bad. On the one hand, the potential merger is a reminder […]

By Rick Manning AT&T and Time Warner were just given the green light to merge over Americans for Limited Government’s vigorous objections, but what does this mean for the everyday American? As big  media consolidation  continues to threaten market competition and free speech, not to mention monopolize the telecommunications […]