By Rick Manning — Hanging chads and legal battles will remain seared in the memories of everyone who is old enough to remember the historic 2000 Bush versus Gore election decider in the state of Florida. Prudently, Florida is preparing for another donnybrook as many political pundits […]
By Rick Manning — In the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie Running Man, Schwarzenegger patrols a futuristic American city in an advanced helicopter system designed to keep the streets free of citizens after dark. Stunningly, the Obama Administration’s Department of Homeland Security is outsourcing Schwarzenegger’s characters job by encouraging and helping local law […]
NRD Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared at TheHill.com . By Rick Manning — From msn.com: “Ireland’s economy was once growing so fast it was dubbed the ‘Celtic Tiger.’ But the property bubble burst, the banks were thrown into crisis, the government got deep into debt spending billions […]
By Rick Manning — U.S. Representative Artur Davis seconded the nomination of Barack Obama for president in 2008 at the Democratic Party convention in Denver, Colorado. Now, almost four years later, Davis has left the Party of Obama, Pelosi and Schumer telling the Daily Caller that if he were […]
By Rick Manning — Tuesday, June 5 is the day of reckoning for the nation’s labor movement. After more than a year of state legislative walkouts by Democratic state Senators, non-stop recalls and political shenanigans, the Wisconsin voters will decide whether to replace Governor Scott Walker with […]
By Rick Manning — “I don’t know how they’ve been bamboozling folks into thinking that they are the responsible, fiscally-disciplined party. They run up these wild debts and then when we take over we have to clean it up,” Obama said. “And then they point and say, […]
As originally published at TheHill.com . By Rick Manning — Chairman Doc Hastings’s House Resources Committee released secret audio in which an Obama administration Interior Department official stunningly states, in connection to their rewrite of the 2008 Stream Buffer Rule, “this is not the real world, this is rulemaking” as a justification […]
By Rick Manning — Headlines blared over the weekend that Obama was winning his way by convincing the G-8 countries (U.S., Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, Italy, France, Canada and Russia) to pursue a policy of “growth” rather than “austerity” in dealing with the crushing sovereign debt crisis […]
By Rick Manning — The U.S. House of Representatives took aim at the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) this past week by voting to prohibit the Obama-run labor board from using any funds to sue any state on the question of secret ballot elections. The House action […]
By Rick Manning — Congressional Republicans have made headline after headline deriding the Obama Administration’s Solyndra deal as crony capitalism gone awry. On Wednesday, May 9, these same Republicans face a moment of truth when they will have to decide if they truly are against crony capitalism […]
