A story of Washington politics, the NRA and Harry Reid’s ambition The nomination of Elena Kagan for the US Supreme Court took a political turn this week that could doom her hopes to reach the nation’s highest bench, and no one noticed.  The National Rifle […]

Let’s play June unemployment report Jeopardy. And the answer is: What are 652,000 Americans exiting the civilian labor force – more than the entire population of the City of Boston, Massachusetts. Question: The explanation for how our nation’s economy could lose 125,000 jobs in the month of […]

13,000 private sector jobs created in June. That’s what payroll giant ADP reported yesterday in their monthly report. Only 41,000 private sector jobs created in May according to the government’s own economists with near post-WWII record unemployment at 9.7 percent. 15 million people unemployed nationwide with 46 percent of them classified as “long-term unemployed,” […]

By Rick Manning – Your head is tilted back, you can hear the drill whirring, and that faintly sickening smell of enamel burning is coming from your mouth, as you try to accommodate a suction tube and the mirror wielding Shaquille O’Neil sized hands of your dentist. […]

By Rick Manning – Joe Biden declared today while in South Africa to see the World Cup, “”In the spirit of a genuine Irishman, we are going to beat England.” How about rooting for the American team because we are AMERICANS, JOE???? http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100611/india_nm/india492354

By Rick Manning – Perhaps BP CEO should be requesting a meeting with George Soros or Andy Stern, rather than Obama, as they are the people who have been calling the shots in the Obama Administration. From the RNC: Obama Requests To Meet With BP’s Svanberg, Not […]

By Rick Manning – Notice anything missing at this Obama press conference? I saw this in an email forwarded around and thought it was rather interesting. Check out the photos below Obama’s press conference to see what is missing: There are no flags at Obama’s press […]

By Rick Manning – I am desperately hoping that what I am writing is proven to not be true, but when the Obama Administration declared that they are now focused upon “containment” of the Deepwater oil spill, it sent off alarm bells. The one truly effective thing […]

By Rick Manning – House Democrats plan to leave the country without a budget according to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer who stated, “ It’s difficult to pass budgets in election years because they reflect what the [fiscal] status is.” Now that’s courage, leadership and transparency. It is stunning that the Majority Leader of the […]

By Rick Manning – Just when you thought that Congress might have run out of bailout ideas for politically-favored groups along comes Senator Robert Casey’s (D-PA) bill to bailout union pension funds. Operating under the benign sounding title, “Create Jobs and Save Benefits Act of 2010”, Casey’s […]