By Rick Manning — Various media outlets breathlessly announced that there has been an immigration reform deal between the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO which establishes something called “prevailing wage” into the parts of the private sector of the economy that rely on immigrant labor. […]
By Ron Arnold — “What if climate change appears to be just mainly a multi-decadal natural fluctuation? They’ll kill us probably.” This private musing between two climate scientist colleagues first surfaced along with a whole raft of embarrassing material in 2011, when the anonymous Climategate […]
By Rick Manning — Hell must have frozen over this past weekend as the U.S. Senate broke a four year record of intransigence and failure as it unleashed a blizzard of votes that culminated with the passage of a budget document that reveals the plans and priorities […]
By Rick Manning — The U.S. Post Office is in financial trouble. It is no secret. Everyone knows it. And the only way out is for Congress to change some of the laws that dictate to the USPS how it should be operated. Unfortunately, expecting our elected […]
By Rick Manning — Richard Griffin, Jr. has had a rough 2012, and 2013 doesn’t look much better. For Griffin, 2012 started brightly as he was given a recess appointment to the National Labor Relations Board and was sworn in as a Board Member on January 9, […]
By Rick Manning — Thursday’s headlines from Washington, D.C. will likely read that the House of Representatives passed a ten year path to a balanced budget proposed by Representative Paul Ryan. While the Ryan budget is a gigantic step in the right direction, a proposal by the House […]
By Rick Manning — Corporate cronyism takes on many forms in Washington, D.C.You have the standard “contributor gets government grant or tax break” cronyism that describe Solyndra and many of the other so-called “green” grants in the Obama Administration. You have the General Motors bailout where union […]
NRD Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared at TheHill.com . By Rick Manning — News flash. Senate Democrats pass a budget out of committee that includes massive tax increases, dramatically increases spending, never is projected to come close to balancing the budget, and in a tip of the […]
By Richard Manning — The timeless Washington, D.C. game of guess the Cabinet appointment has turned the town’s focus onto Thomas Perez, the current head of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, as the likely replacement for former Secretary Hilda Solis. But Perez’ path […]
NRD Editor’s Note: This column was originally published at TheHill.com . By Rick Manning — “Taxes should hurt.” That is what then-Gov. Ronald Reagan of California said back in the late 1960s. And while these words seem curious coming from the man who lowered the overall income tax […]
