05.22.2013

He’s Offended? Shulman upset by political questions

By Rick Manning The former IRS Commissioner, Douglas Shulman, who was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2008, is a former Democrat whose wife has a history of contributing to Democrat campaigns including a $2,000 contribution to the John Kerry presidential campaign in 2004. In an […]

05.22.2013

Labor nominee Perez versus the rule of law

By Rick Manning The idea that no man is above the law stands as one of the fundamental tenets of our nation.  The simple concept that the United States is a nation of laws and not men or women has been at the heart of equal protection […]

05.20.2013

Arrogance is Obama’s Worst Enemy

By Rick Manning The Obama Administration felt the backlash from liberal media sources this past week and appears to be reeling from a sudden realization that they aren’t in Kansas  anymore. First it was Jon Stewart , whose Comedy Central “news” broadcast is must see tv for many of […]

05.14.2013

The IRS Predicted Scandal: Baucus Demanded IRS Investigation Before He Condemned It

By Rick Manning The IRS targeting conservative groups has reached scandal stage in record time in Washington, D.C. with even Michael Gerson writing in the Washington Post, “It is precisely because police powers are essential to the public good that abusing them is so offensive. The same holds for […]

05.09.2013

Biggest Brit Electric Power Plant Switches to Burning Woodchips—Back to the Days of Camelot?

By Rick Manning Insane, bonkers, utterly mad and downright Looney Tunes are all terms which could be used to describe actions a Yorkshire, England power plant is taking to meet Great Britain’s green agenda. Great Britain has coal, plenty of it, and the Drax power plant is one of the […]

05.06.2013

Neither Medicaid nor Head Start Work

By Richard Manning Big government social engineers must be shaking their heads in disbelief.  The honest amongst them have to be asking how they could have been so wrong. The effectiveness of both Medicaid and Head Start, two bulwarks of the left’s belief that massive […]

05.03.2013

Behind the Unemployment Headlines

By Rick Manning The headlines read that the nation’s unemployment rate for April hit 7.5 percent.  But the real story behind the headline is that America is becoming a society of labor drop outs.  These charts using just released data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics have […]

05.02.2013

Al ‘Biden’ Gore’s Hollywood Reveal

By Rick Manning Joe Biden must have dressed up in his best Al Gore, Jr. suit for a Beverly Hills global warming pep rally, as the man who “invented the Internet” bemoaned that a modern day Thomas Paine would struggle to get his pamphlet “Common Sense” to […]

05.01.2013

Washington’s Weird World

By Rick Manning Welfare payments became water cooler conversation this week as it was revealed that the Marathon bombers and their family received more than $100,000 in welfare benefits the previous year.  The Mercedes Benz driving terrorists have become one of the most effective debate points for […]

04.30.2013

Church of Global Warming feels the heat

By Rick Manning It is a bad time to be a global warming believer. Seventeen straight years of climate stability will straighten even the most ardent true believers hockey stick. Russian scientists have even expressed concern that the globe may be facing more than 200 years of global […]

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