By Rick Manning Forest fires are raging throughout the western United States as they often do this time of year, and just as thunder follows lightning, we can expect to hear environmentalists and their political shills blame global warming for the tempest. In fact, a quick Internet […]
By Rick Manning While Congress was out on recess this August, the 40,000-member International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) quit the AFL-CIO over the group’s acquiescence to President Obama over the perversely named Affordable Care Act (ACA), firing the first shot in the debate over what to do […]
By Rick Manning We have all heard it said that health care is a right, an entitlement, a fundamental freedom that the government should guarantee. Let’s assume it is. A right on equal footing with those other precious liberties enumerated in the Bill of Rights to the […]
By Rick Manning The federal government is considering setting aside almost 14 million acres, a land mass larger than the combined states of New Hampshire and Vermont, as critical habitat for the northern spotted owl. Using a highly controversial method of determining economic costs of regulations, the U.S. Fish and […]
By Rick Manning The Washington Post’s interview with Al Gore, Jr. provides a window into the mind and plans of the titular leader of the environmental movement in a way that is rare in the mainstream media. Critics could question why interviewer Ezra Klein failed to ask the […]
By Rick Manning D.C. politicians will likely be criticized for taking this August recess to meet with constituents rather than staying at the Capitol and “working.” When they get back, they will have very few session days to deal with a number of issues, most prominently funding […]
By Rick Manning The Grizzly Bear graces the California state flag, a perfect symbol of strength for the once golden state, since the fearsome bear is extinct within the state borders. Fear not, the mighty grizzly thrives elsewhere just not in California. Over the past twenty years, […]
By Rick Manning Momentum against Obamacare continues to accelerate, but somehow House leadership seem to be the only ones who don’t get that defunding the law is the only chance to stop it from going into effect. In a just released “dear colleague” letter from House Majority […]
By Rick Manning Katya Wachtel and Sam Forgione of Reuters wrote this in a recent investment recap piece, “Billionaire investor George Soros dumped 7.85 million shares of U.S. Airways Group Inc in the second quarter, a regulatory filing on Wednesday showed. “It was a timely move by the investor’s Soros Fund Management. […]
By Rick Manning Fox News discovered the poster boy for decades of social experimentation and a welfare system designed to take away any stigma of dependency — Jason Greenslate — the slacker’s slacker. The twenty nine year old is, who the fictional “Fast Times in Ridgemont High” character Jeff […]
