By Rick Manning — I was recently asked why I don’t like electric cars. So, let me be clear, I love the concept of an electric car. What I don’t like is the concept that the government is subsidizing the development and purchase of electric cars at […]

By Rick Manning — “The monthly unemployment rate has become a meaningless statistic that no longer reflects the reality of America’s economy or even the state of our nation’s employment.  Shockingly, the stated rate of 8.3 percent does not include the  4.4 million Americans who have dropped […]

By Rick Manning — The irony of the Obama Administration excitedly proclaiming the good news that a portion of the Obama Administration-maligned Keystone XL pipeline would be built from Oklahoma to Texas shows a chutzpah unlikely to be seen again in the District. The pipeline has been the subject of intense debate in Washington as Calgary-based TransCanada Corporation has sought Obama’s approval to build a pipeline from the oil rich Alberta, […]

By Rick Manning — The bad news just keeps coming for the Obama Administration’s push to force electric vehicles on the public with the revelation that the much loved Tesla line up of vehicles have a singular problem — they become bricks if the battery runs out . That’s right, the $100,000+ Tesla vehicle reportedly […]

By Rick Manning As originally published at TheHill.com. Human Events political editor John Gizzi got an interesting sidestep by Obama deputy press secretary Josh Earnest on Friday. When queried about Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers’s (R-Wash.) legislation that would rescind the IMF’s ability to access $100 billion directly from the U.S. Treasury without any congressional approvals, […]

By Rick Manning — Mini-riots broke out all over America this past week. Had the nation gone mad while in mourning for Whitney Houston? Perhaps, a nationally important political figure had been imprisoned? No, Nike released a very limited edition $250 tennis shoe. A tennis shoe. Not […]

By Rick Manning — There are 3,141 counties in the United States of America, and ten of wealthiest fifteen counties are in the Washington, D.C. suburbs, including in Virginia and Maryland.  Is there any doubt why Washington, D.C. seems so chronically out of touch with the average person? The affluence of the […]

By Rick Manning — Not content with making the health insurance industry unprofitable, through rules and regulations set out in enacting Obamacare, the Obama administration released the first eight grants/loans under the Consumer Oriented and Operated Plan (CO-OP) program. The CO-OP program was established under the Obamacare […]

By Rick Manning — Who knew that the National Labor Relations Board was so important? After a year and a half of battles over whether Boeing can build a plant in a state other than Washington, and forcing the National Right to Work organization to put employee […]

By Rick Manning — On Feb. 1, Indiana became the twenty third state in the nation to pass a right to work law, and the first in the formerly heavily unionized rust belt to do so. After signing the legislation, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels released a statement […]