By Rick Manning — President Obama has suffered through a very tough time since his return from Martha’s Vineyard. As a multiple choice question, choose which of the following items have occurred since Obama’s summer vacation ended: The President tried to have an additional State of the […]
By Rick Manning — Zero. It hasn’t happened in the lifetimes of anyone who isn’t eligible for social security. Zero net jobs were created in the month of August for the first time since 1945. It is almost mind boggling to think about what may turn out […]
By Rick Manning — Like many Americans, I refinanced my home in the past couple of months. In searching for a home mortgage lender, my first stop was my former mortgage company, Wells Fargo, as I was happy with their web payment system and did not want […]
By Rick Manning – The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the United Auto Workers (UAW) is asking its members to authorize a strike against Ford Motor Company in a vote scheduled to occur by September 2. While strikes against the so-called Big 3 U.S. automakers, GM, […]
By Rick Manning – Last week, Japanese automaker, Honda, announced a decision to spend $800 million to open another plant in North America to produce the exact kind of sub-compact vehicle that will help them meet the overly ambitious mileage guidelines laid out by the Obama Administration. Honda has […]
By Rick Manning – The Congressional super-committee got off to a rough start as Senator Harry Reid announced his three delegates to this congressionally created deficit reduction committee — Senators Patty Murray, John Kerry and Max Baucus. Reid’s appointment of Senator Patty Murray of Washington state would […]
By Rick Manning – There is a new phrase that is being bandied about in these hard economic times that should be frightening to anyone who believes that America’s rightful place in the world is on top of the economic pecking order – the “New Normal.” Surprisingly, […]
By Rick Manning – Where is the irrational exuberance? Where is the stock market celebration that a grand deal has been cut and the nation has been saved from certain doom because the debt ceiling was raised, and Washington, D.C. can go back to spending $125 billion […]
By Rick Manning – Global warming alarmists have spent the past two decades convincing the world that carbon dioxide, particularly man produced carbon dioxide, is plunging the world into a cataclysmic heat wave that will melt the polar ice caps, flood coastal areas and generally change life […]
By Rick Manning – When it takes about five minutes for President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to sign on to a new debt deal, perhaps Republicans should look for the trapdoors. Based upon press reports, here are just four. Contrary to what the […]
