06.15.2011

Time For Leaders to Lead

By Rick Manning – Our nation is another day closer to defaulting on our national debt and the Senate continues to be absent without leave in the debate. It makes one wonder whether anyone has told Harry Reid that he was re-elected by the voters of Nevada […]

06.09.2011

Proposal to increase the minimum wage is a cruel joke

By Rick Manning – The Center for American Progress (CAP) has pushed for a lot of loony ideas, but that is what one would expect from a Soros-funded organization tasked with providing intellectual cover for a brain-dead administration. However, CAP’s latest article, “ An increased minimum wage is good public policy even during tough times, ” could easily be […]

06.08.2011

D.C.’s Irreconcilable Differences

By Rick Manning – Americans are dissatisfied and frustrated with their government because our elected representatives seem unwilling to do what is in the obvious best interest of the nation. In Washington, D.C. last week we saw the same tired dance that has led us to this […]

06.03.2011

Enviro Elitists Keep America Unemployed

By Rick Manning – This Friday will mark the release of the May unemployment report. A report that will reflect the last effects of the Obama trillion-dollar stimulus and of the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing (QE2). The report is likely to show that job creation is mediocre […]

05.26.2011

No Government Fix for Housing Woes

By Rick Manning – It’s official. There is a housing crisis in America. The New York Times has weighed in with their prescription for the housing woes plaguing our nation’s economy. Not surprisingly, their solution is more government intervention, billions more on government loan modification programs that are proven failures 40 […]

05.23.2011

Really, Harry?

By Rick Manning – Lost in the incredibly bungled presidential campaign launch of former Speaker Newt Gingrich and the equally bad week of the now former International Monetary Fund Chairman was the bad week suffered by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). Reid, who graduated from Utah […]

05.18.2011

Good for Roller Coasters, bad for the Economy

By Rick Manning – The Obama economy continues to drift downward as our nation’s jobless rate is back at 9 percent with the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reporting that the number of unemployed persons increased by 205,000 in April. Yet, incredibly the BLS writes in their May 6, 2011 release […]

05.06.2011

Tax the rich, Feed the poor, ‘Til there are No rich no more

By Rick Manning – When you filed your taxes this year, did you get a refund larger than the amount the government withheld from your paycheck? If you were one of the 23.1 million tax filers who benefitted from federal government share-the-wealth schemes like the Earned Income […]

05.05.2011

Rehberg says state savings should go toward lowering federal debt

By Rick Manning – The incentive to spend more and more money is at the heart of our government’s budget crunch as millions of dollars are spent simply because there is no incentive not to spend it all, even if t isn’t needed. U.S. Congressman Denny Rehberg […]

05.04.2011

Reject Obama Political Hack’s Judicial Nomination

By Rick Manning – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is going to the mats to promote an attorney who would be the plaintiff’s bars dream, to Federal District Court for the District of Rhode Island. Reid upped the ante by filing for cloture in the Senate forcing […]

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