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 Robert Romano “[Y]ou can’t cut overall spending without cutting spending on particular programs.” Actually, yes, you can, but more on that in a moment. That was the New York Times’ Paul Krugman in his Aug. 4 column, “Republicans against reality,” mocking proposed cuts around the edges in the 2014 […]

By Rick Manning A 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 Bill Wilson You know things are bad when the government has to engage in blatant manipulation of economic data just to get to an overall assessment of “a weak economy.”  But that is exactly where we find ourselves. The economy is $551 billion larger than previously […]

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 […]

By David Bozeman While political activism and writing have always been my passions, I always held a day job to pay the bills.  At least till October of last year, when my job of 19 years closed up shop.  Suddenly, unemployment became not a mere […]

By Marta H. Mossburg Detroit’s bankruptcy is about numbers: a 26 percent drop in population since 2000, 78,000 abandoned properties, $10 billion in underfunded pension and health care obligations for public employees and billions more in bond and other debt that make it impossible to […]

By Rick Manning Apparently sloganeering, Joe Biden’s bluster and Super Bowl car ad buys could not pull the Motor City back from the brink. The once proud city of Detroit buried under $18 billion of debt, a taxpayer exodus, collapsed infrastructure and public employee pension promises that cannot be kept has filed for bankruptcy, making […]