By Rick Manning — Hollywood is releasing another of its preachy environmental epics this fall designed to take advantage of the public’s ignorance about an oil and gas drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing or fracking for short. Producers of the 2012 environmentalist tale titled Promised Land already had their […]
By Rick Manning — Neither a native American nor a licensed attorney, Lizzie Warren finds herself in more hot water over her charging a legal client $675 an hour for legal services in 2001. Once again, the affirmative action Harvard Law Professor has been struck with revelations that she is […]
By Rick Manning — The winner of the Obama/Pirate caption contest achieved something that is rare in this world, and actual laugh out loud, from contest judges. Among the many outstanding entries which played upon the themes of Obamacare, Pillaging, Pretending and Plunder, the winner, NAME OR […]
By Rick Manning — Time to update the infamous Lizzie Borden poem to reflect the modern day version of what Elizabeth Warren did to coal mine workers’ health care benefits : Lizzie Warren took an axe, and gave coal pensioners forty whacks. And when she saw what she had done, she gave their health care forty one. […]
By Rick Manning — ABC News’ website headlined an article in June, “Emperor Penguins Threatened By Shrinking Kingdom,” with this just being one of a series of articles crying the alarm around the globe that the loveable penguin , star of both the big and small screen is endangered by […]
By Rick Manning — Is it time to send Bob Casey to the minors? Senator Bob Casey from Pennsylvania has a unique record of ineptitude. Sitting in the majority, where your legislation should just by accident find its way to the floor for consideration once in a […]
By Rick Manning — Is it any wonder that decent people refuse to run for elective office? It is common for Americans to bemoan their choices at the ballot box with the refrain that they are voting for the lesser of two evils. This sense that those […]
NRD Editor’s Note: This column first appeared at TheHill.com By Rick Manning — Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz has been busily traveling Europe trying to get the European Union to crack down on the use of tracking cookies that online advertisers depend upon to get the right […]
By Rick Manning — Kaine supports taxing your kid’s babysitting money through a minimum federal income tax. In an announcement that has been deemed, “the no pocket goes unpicked” initiative, Virginia Senate candidate Tim Kaine has come out for an income tax on every single person in […]
