By Rick ManningAs originally published at TheHill.com. I hate it when timelines don’t work. Here is the latest timeline on the IRS conservative targeting scandal that initially supplanted the Benghazi scandal and has since been pushed from the news by the NSA-spying-on-all-of-us scandal. On April 24, the White House chief counsel […]
By Rick Manning The President’s Climate Action Plan was released in an obvious attempt to change the subject away from the various scandals that have engulfed Obama to something where he hoped to get favorable press. The plan itself outlines Obama’s determination to push the limits of his Executive branch […]
By Rick Manning People across the nation can learn from the wake-up call that residents of Calvert County, Maryland received in the last month — ignore your local elections at your own risk. In the past month, two separate faux gun incidents have rocked this small Washington, […]
By Rick Manning James Ware, a candidate for Controller in the state of California in 1978, was frustrated by the mail in voter registration system and decided to publicize the potential for abuse. Ware proceeded to register his cat to vote, and let the media in on […]
By Rick Manning Unintended consequences have a way of coming back to bite you, and the IRS targeting of conservative groups and contributors has done just that to the agenda driven hard left in the Obama Administration. Team Obama’s political game plan for 2013 was to drive […]
By Richard Manning “Informed consent is at the heart of ethically engaging in any kind of human testing.” National outrage over the federal government’s abuse of power has seemingly hit critical mass over the past month as news about the Internal Revenue Service engaging in […]
By Rick Manning America has been breathlessly awaiting the calamity that was predicted to befall the Washington D.C. area due to the “draconian” budget cuts known as the sequester. Now, the April data is in from the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics detailing how the D.C. area is doing as it copes […]
By Rick Manning Why is opening up America’s natural energy resources and defeating an environmental movement that has massive wealth, a pliant media and the capacity to play on emotional heart strings, the most important domestic question facing our nation? The answer is that cheap, abundant energy […]
By Rick Manning The positive and negative impacts of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) will be examined by a special working group within the House Resources Committee . The goal of the working group is to seek answers to the following questions: How is ESA success defined? How do we […]
By Rick Manning It was a joke, right? Nothing more than a way for those, like me, who oppose President Obama’s policies to make light of his seeming dependency on a teleprompter to speak publicly. The teleprompter was almost Garry Trudeau-esque in the ease which it could […]
