By Rick Manning — Recently, NBC News came out with a breathless headline announcing the shocking news that, “Top CEOs donate to Romney over Obama by 4-1 margin.” This “news” that the men and women who run our nation’s largest companies favor the pro-growth policies favored by Romney over […]
By Rick Manning — The airwaves are overrun with Obama ads saying all sorts of bad things about Mitt Romney and making some incredible claims about the current president’s budget plans for the future. Two of these claims just scream for correction, one because it has disastrous […]
By Rick Manning — The Environmental Protection Agency has been a lightning rod for controversy during the Obama Administration as they have pushed the applications of the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act to their limits in seeking to control all land use across the […]
By Rick Manning — The Congressional Budget Office provided a glimpse at the 10-month mark of the federal fiscal year 2012, and the results are grim. Outlays are virtually the same through 10 months of 2012 as they were in 2011 at $3 trillion and revenues collected […]
NRD Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared at TheHill.com . By Rick Manning — I’m getting sick of the rewriting of 2008 presidential campaign history as K Street Republicans continue to assault Sarah Palin in the fear that a similarly conservative Republican will rise to the top of […]
As originally published at TheHill.com. By Rick Manning — The monthly release of the nation’s unemployment data never ceases to amaze and, in some perverse way, amuse. Here are just a couple of examples that just make you scratch your head. The unemployment rate for all workers went up to 8.3 percent in the […]
By Rick Manning — Sitting near the Washington, D.C. Beltway, it is easy to get consumed by government news. The latest legislation, regulation or court ruling that turns our nation’s laws on their head either for better or worse. Every whisper by a policy maker becomes cause […]
By Rick Manning — The Internet is abuzz with the declaration by the president of the United States that “If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own.” Obama continued to explain that, “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” This […]
By Rick Manning — They say a picture is worth a thousand words, these are the easy to understand graphs that Team Obama doesn’t want people to see, because they speak volumes about his failed economic policies. Unless otherwise indicated each of the graphs are from the […]
By Rick Manning — Years ago, my Norco High School geometry teacher used to exclaim, Aha!! Contradiction, when a solution did not meet the facts presented. Those two words sent students scurrying to check our assumptions because one of them had to be false, because there could […]