By Rick Manning The United States Postal Service is expecting to run out of cash again – real soon. After the loss of another $740 million in the past quarter, and $3.9 billion over the course of the current financial year, post office watchers are predicting that the […]
By Rick Manning At what point did you stop ascribing good intentions to the left? Perhaps it was when you learned that the Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal” campaign was financed by a $26 million gift from Chesapeake Energy , a natural gas company that benefitted from regulations shifting utilities from burning coal to […]
By Rick Manning Senator Marco Rubio spoke and voted against it, warning , “Members, you are about to vote to give 60 votes and cut off debate on a nominee that has ignored a congressional subpoena from the House on information relevant to his background and to his […]
By Rick Manning The debt ceiling debate is re-emerging in Washington, D.C. as the nation heads toward another showdown over deficit spending. So just what is the debate all about, and what are some of the common misconceptions about what happens if the nation hits the debt […]
By Rick Manning Attorney General Eric Holder has urged that Florida’s firearm and self-defense laws undergo national scrutiny. This is a discussion that gun rights advocates should welcome. Before Holder opened up this can of worms, he should have conducted basic due diligence and looked at Florida’s […]
By Rick Manning What if everything you think you know about something turns out to be wrong? Does it force you to evaluate everything else, or do you just shrug your shoulders figuring that it is impossible to know everything, so you have to pick your experts […]
By Rick ManningA version of this article appeared at TheHill.com. The headline writers and political spinners will celebrate an unemployment rate of 7.4 percent, even though they know this does not reflect the millions of people who have simply dropped out of the economy since President Obama took office. What they aren’t likely […]
By Rick Manning The Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein has made a startling discovery courtesy of the far left Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the actual employment rate, has stunk since Obama took office. Klein even published two charts that he was provided which originated from […]
By Rick Manning The past couple of weeks in Washington, D.C. have created a buzz around the question of whether Senate Republican Leader has lost control over the Republican Conference. McConnell’s problems crystallized when Senator John McCain was joined by a few other Senators to cut a […]
By Rick Manning The United States Department of Labor has stumbled upon a secret. Construction jobs are good. And in their never ending quest to create equality in the workplace, a senior civil rights advisor with the Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has penned […]
