By Rick Manning — In early 2009, when “hope and change” expressed an ideal rather than a ridiculed symbol of policy failure, the White House issued a memorandum on the importance of openness in government through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) stating, “The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, […]
By Rick Manning — The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) finds itself in the news again as a federal court ruled that its lawsuit against the states of Arizona and South Dakota can move ahead. The heinous crime committed by these states (along with South Carolina and […]
By Rick Manning — Ohio’s state government has a problem. They face an $8 billion deficit in a state where the economy was struggling with more than half a million Ohioan’s are unemployed . Ohio’s tax base is not expanding. Over the past ten years, Ohio’s population did not grow […]
By Rick Manning — Dec. 28, 1976, graveyard shift, 7-11 store on La Sierra Boulevard in Riverside, California. That’s when I had a rifle stuck in my face by four thugs who wanted the $40 in the register. They took me to the back of the store […]
By Rick Manning — The professional left is all a-Twitter with the thought that Harvard Law professor and former Obama Administration banking oversight official Elizabeth Warren is seeking the Democratic Party nomination to take on U.S. Senator Scott Brown in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Warren has even […]
By Rick Manning — The current fight between the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and Boeing Corporation over whether the company has the right to build a production line in South Carolina has caught the attention of businesses, Congress and indeed, many in the public. In fact, […]
By Rick Manning — The Obama Administration has one shining quality — an ability to dumbfound and amaze through some of the most ill-conceived proposals in human history. I’m talking bad like, “Abe, let’s go see the new play that is at Ford’s Theatre,” bad. The latest […]
By Rick Manning and Rebecca DiFede — Toyota Motor Company has a new set of television advertisements for their Venza product that highlight the cultural divide between young adults and their parents. The brilliant commercials by Saatchi and Saatchi show relatively sentient kids worrying that their parents […]
By Rick Manning — The other day, my wife made a growling noise as we drove by a small manufacturing plant near our house. I hadn’t heard her growl in a while; I knew it meant that something was bothering her. After some gentle prying, she let […]
