NRD Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared at TheHill.com . By Rick Manning — The left and the right agree on something this morning. Their guy is going to win the presidency. The left is buoyed by publicly released media polls that show Obama clinging to a lead […]

By Rick Manning — Americans come together in a crisis, unless those Americans are in a closed shop union state that has been hit by the biggest natural disaster it has ever faced. It has been reported by WAFF news in Seaside, New Jersey that non-union utility workers from Alabama […]

By Rick Manning — You can almost set your clocks by it.  The inside the beltway election prediction game, where people who live in D.C. pretend that we have some special psychic insight into what the electorate will do one week hence. In 2010, my original predictions […]

By Rick Manning — Politicians, public employee unions and other supporters of big government have learned a simple lesson over the past thirty years — people don’t want to pay higher taxes to fund additional government services, except for police, fire or education. Because of this understanding, […]

By Rick Manning — The Environmental Protection Agency revealed in response to a Freedom Of Information Act request by Americans for Limited Government that seventeen employees in the Agency do nothing but labor related activities at a cost of more than $1.6 million in annual salary . The FOIA response provides the names and salaries of each employee revealing an average salary of $95,560 per union employee.  When benefits are included the average employee nets more than $120,000 a year. To see the Federal worker benefit package, click here . […]

NRD Editor’s Note: This column first appeared at TheHill.com . By Rick Manning — In the days of yore, Obama’s appearances caused class cancellations; excited crowds of breathless students lined up early in the morning to just be in the presence of the great man. Obama’s visit to […]

By Rick Manning — Foreign policy debates tend to make Americans hit the snooze button, and the debate last night was no different. A responsible challenger cannot really make substantive attacks on a sitting president’s policies or on-going actions because to do so provides aid and comfort […]

By Rick Manning — CNN’s Candy Crowley moderated the Romney v. Obama 2 debate like she was trained by Vince McMahon of the WWE.  Her third man in the ring to try to save Obama was truly embarrassing and calls into question the entire moderator selection process. In […]

By Rick Manning — Joe Biden got one thing right in his debate with Paul Ryan – the next four years are likely to bring multiple picks to the Supreme Court of the United States and the implications have never been more important for Montanans who support […]

By Rick Manning — Joe Biden got one thing right in his debate with Paul Ryan – the next four years are likely to bring multiple picks to the Supreme Court of the United States and the implications have never been more important for Pennsylvanians who support […]