By Rick Manning – 15.1 million Americans unemployed. The entire state of Ohio has a population under 12 million people. The commonwealth of Pennsylvania is at around 12.5 million people. Illinois is around 13 million. In fact, every state except California, Florida, New York and Texas, has […]

By Rick Manning – There will be a lot of heat generated in the first month of the 112th Congress as the newly elected Republican majority in the House of Representatives moves, as they should, to repeal the signature legislation of the Pelosi era — ObamaCare. It […]

By Rick Manning – Heath Shuler did the unthinkable and challenged Nancy Pelosi for her crown as queen bee of the House Democrats in a decidedly more liberal and diminished House caucus. After being overwhelmingly rejected, Shuler and his fellow “Blue Dog” Democrats have a problem, their […]

By Rick Manning – The U.S. Senate is expected to vote today on the nominations of two particularly troublesome Obama judiciary nominees, Robert Chatigny and Goodwin Liu. The lame duck Senate consideration of the nominations is seen as their last chance for confirmation given the changed, more […]

While all the media attention on November 2nd was focused upon the battle over control of the U.S. Congress, the elections that will impact the nation for the next ten years at the state level were overwhelmingly won by Republican candidates. After the census is […]

In the wake of the 2008 elections, pundits looked at a map without a single House Republican elected to federal office from Massachusetts north. The Great Lakes from New York and Pennsylvania, through Ohio, Indiana, Illinois up to Wisconsin and Minnesota voted for Obama’s presidency […]

The Conservative Action Project which includes Americans for Limited Government, has released ten spending cuts that would save more than a trillion and a half dollars in the next ten years . The list is formidable and lays a foundation for the new Congress to start the hard task of getting our deficit under control. Some items are obvious, like repealing ObamaCare and save taxpayers over […]

The Hill newspaper reported October 20th that New York Senator Charles Schumer went on a spending spree trying to help his Democratic Senate colleagues keep their seats to the tune of over $2 million. Additionally, Schumer gave $250,000 he collected from others to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and cut five […]

$500 million in the vast sea of red ink facing U.S. taxpayers seems like a drop in the bucket. Far less than even one half of one percent of the $1.3 trillion deficit our nation accrued in fiscal year 2010. If our Congress can’t cut […]

Speculation is running rampant on Capitol Hill that Connecticut Senator, McCain for President supporter, Joe Lieberman could be the tie-breaking vote on who is in control of the Senate if the Senate ends up with a 50-50 split after November 2nd. The highly respected congressional […]