By Rick Manning — Taxpayers are footing the bill for thirty five union officials at the U.S. Department of Transportation, which spent $4.8 million dollars in union salaries in 2012, paying an average salary of $138,175 per year according to a report released by Americans for Limited Government today . The National Air Traffic Controllers Association accounted for […]
NRD Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared at TheHill.com . By Rick Manning — I have a confession. I was born and raised in California. I was educated in the state, and attended the University of Southern California. I have spent decades defending the state against the charge […]
NRD Editor’s Note: This column was originally published at TheHill.com . By Rick Manning — The International Monetary Fund has jumped into the so-called “fiscal cliff” crisis in the United States with Managing Director Christine Lagarde weighing in on the situation this past weekend, saying, “The best way […]
By Rick Manning — Momentum continues to grow against state implementation of a key element of the Obamacare health law as Tennessee joined 22 other states in refusing to establish a state health care exchange. Every state that has announced a decision since the U.S. Department of […]
NRD Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared at TheHill.com . By Rick Manning — Perhaps it is time for Congress to zero out the budget of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, an agency of the Department of Labor whose data is so important to financial markets that figuring […]
By Rick Manning — Hot on the heels of Big Labor suffering a stunning defeat at the polls in the state of Michigan, where an attempt to entrench collective bargaining into the state constitution was rejected by 57 percent of the voters, the Michigan state legislature is […]
By Rick Manning — The human tragedy that occurred in the stadium parking lot, where a professional football player killed his girlfriend and mother of his child, and himself became magnified into a gun control debate when columnist Jason Whitlock and television sports commentator Bob Costas chose […]
NRD Editor’s Note: This column first appeared at TheHill.com . By Rick Manning — The Kinks song “Lola” tells the story of “a mixed up muddled up shook up world,” and that is how any Capitol Hill observer must feel with Washington, D.C., Republicans openly talking about agreeing […]
By Rick Manning — What would you say to a couple which has a combined wealth of around $100 million who begged you to help them repay a $73,000 debt? I know what I’d say, and it wouldn’t be yes. In the latest audacity to come out […]
By Rick Manning — Lottery mania swept the country once again as millions of normally rational people voluntarily contribute millions of dollars into state coffers all in the hope of taking home a couple hundred million dollars. The dichotomy between the scenes of people lined up to […]
