02.23.2011

How the Left Thinks

By Rick Manning – When faced with actual real cuts in their budgets, managers in either the private or public sector have some basic priority decisions to make. Do you use these cuts as an opportunity to cut the average employees from your staff with the idea […]

02.16.2011

Alternet.org’s Racist Attack on Herman Cain

The far left never ceases to amaze.  Using the ole, the left can’t be racists approach, an obscure website alternet.org is in the news for a columnists attack on GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain where they use the term “monkey”, “race minstrel”, “black garbage pail kid” […]

02.09.2011

Can States Protect the Secret Ballot for Non-Union Workers?

By Rick Manning – The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is threatening to sue the states of Arizona, South Carolina, South Dakota and Utah because their citizens took the outrageous step of adding a protection to their state constitutions so their workers are assured the right to […]

01.28.2011

Boomer Or Bust

By Rick Manning – The feel good State of the Union address with the good little boys and girls of the Congress sitting red, blue, red, blue was given a stark reality check by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on January 26th which projected the budget deficit […]

01.25.2011

Obama: Talks Reagan while acting like Marx

By Rick Manning – This first Obama State of the Union message in front of a divided Congress will be extraordinary theater as the president seeks to sound like the uniter people voted for in 2008, rather than the partisan leftist whose policies have driven our nation […]

01.12.2011

The Tale of Two Americas

By Rick Manning – John Edwards ran his ill-fated presidential campaign around the theme that there are “two Americas,” one that is wealthy and powerful, and the other that is poor and weak. Events that have occurred since the Tucson shooting tragedy have revealed that there are […]

01.07.2011

Unemployment Rate at 9.4%

By Rick Manning – Expect the White House to begin talking up the brighter unemployment numbers that the Labor Department announced this morning.  What is likely to be unstated by the White House is the fact that this is the 19th straight month where the unemployment rate […]

12.31.2010

Obama’s War on Energy

By Rick Manning – Rising gas prices are the elephant in the room that no one is talking about. With 87 octane gasoline now around $3 a gallon throughout the country, we can expect to start seeing increased prices for the delivery of goods and services, as […]

12.27.2010

The 10 Year Counting: What we can learn

By Rick Manning – “In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to their own town to register. “So […]

12.23.2010

5 Stories that Mattered in 2010

By Rick Manning – At this time of year, it is traditional to look back on stories and actions that got our nation to where it is at the beginning of a new year. These five stories either changed the way we look at our government, or […]

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