By Rick Manning — An earnest Paul Ryan faced a smirking Joe Biden, who Team Obama apparently instructed to engage in rude interventions and weird expressions to show displeasure or disagreement. Like a teen girl who cannot resist rolling her eyes before giving you the W and […]
By Rick Manning — The financial news has been dominated over the past couple of years about problems that various European countries have had paying the interest on the loans they have taken out to finance their government’s deficit. From Greece and Ireland to Spain and Italy, […]
By Rick Manning — The Obama campaign launched an Internet hit campaign using Big Bird to attack Mitt Romney as a result of Romney’s debate claim that he would eliminate funding for the Public Broadcasting System if elected president. Romney unequivocally declared that the U.S. government was […]
By Rick Manning — Believe it or not, somehow the unemployment rate number dipped below Obama’s self-defined 8 percent threshold needed for re-election. The timing of this .3 percent drop in the jobless rate with just five short weeks before the election caused many, including Americans for […]
NRD Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared at TheHill.com . By Rick Manning — The 2012 fiscal year ended this past weekend with a whimper, as our nation suffered approximately $1.2 trillion of new debt this year, bringing the total to $5.3 trillion since Barack Obama became president. […]
By Rick Manning — Reactions to the debate are flying all around the D.C. Beltway in the aftermath of Romney-Obama 1, O’s Denver Debate Debacle. Analysts will argue various points in the debate with fact checkers and spinners on both sides furiously working to either maximize the […]
By Rick Manning — A BMW dealership that issued an employee manual containing language requiring their employees to engage in courteous behavior has run afoul of the Obama appointee led National Labor Relations Board last week in a decision that stunned even NLRB admirers. Below is the […]
By Rick Manning — The Indiana Senate general election has not received a lot of attention from the national media, but it is shaping up as perhaps the most important race for limited government Republicans in this cycle. Republican nominee Richard Mourdock had the temerity to run […]
By Rick Manning — President Ronald Reagan famously said, “Personnel is policy,” and not surprisingly, he was 100 percent right. That’s why Americans for Limited Government urged Senators Jon Tester to oppose the nomination of Patricia Smith to the office of Solicitor of the Department of Labor. […]
NRD Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared at TheHill.com . By Rick Manning — Sen. Jeff Sessions (Ala.), the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, explains in better terms than I can muster why Obama’s campaign claim that his budget plan would pay down the debt is […]
