By Rick Manning The Panama Papers have burst onto the scene as the latest WikiLeaks release showing how powerful people all over the world use tax havens to shield their money from their respective governments. This revelation ranks right up there with the news that the New […]

By Rick Manning As originally published at http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/economy-budget/275254-a-conservative-solution-to-trade I am a big fan of Heritage Foundation as a whole and agree with their analysis a vast majority of the time, but a recent Contributors piece by Bryan Riley extolling the virtues of trade was wrong factually in creating anecdotal evidence to support his theory. This is not a screed […]

By Dustin Howard The national nightmare that is the Obama administration will soon be over, and the people who made it a nightmare still have pens and phones. From Executive Amnesty to the ad-hoc to the Obama’s administration’s effort to stifle energy exploration and usage, […]

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By Rick Manning The Federal Communications Commission just created Obamanet by providing a $9.25 subsidy for millions deemed to be in need of broadband Internet service. How did the FCC get the power to spend $2.4 billion of tax dollars each year? Congress gave it to them […]

By Robert Romano Neither Donald Trump nor Ted Cruz may be the Republican nominee in 2016, despite having acquired far and away the most votes and the most delegates to date. That is, if the two candidates cannot bury the hatchet prior to the nominating convention in […]

By Rick Manning   Wisconsin has an important place in our nation’s political history as both the birthplace of the Republican Party in the town of Ripon, and the state that spawned the Progressive movement in the first couple of decades of the 20th Century led by […]

By Robert Romano On March 23, the National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded a $18,690 sole-source contract to the President and Fellows of Harvard College to review a Commerce Department proposal to relinquish the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). […]

By Rick Manning Adapted from a letter to U.S. Rep. Greg Walden (R-Oreg.), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology of the House Energy and Commerce Committee . In Singapore on Feb. 15, 2015, Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information at the Department of Commerce Lawrence Strickling answered a question about why he believed the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) was still allowed to plan transitioning the Internet Assigned Numbers […]