By Nathan Mehrens Should a city buy concrete trucks and start its own construction company if it doesn’t like the demographic makeup of the employees of the construction companies that could do work on city construction projects? Most people with any experience around government operations […]

By Rick Manning The nation’s political eyes are on Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina for the beginning of the 2016 presidential selection process with the rural South and Texas following hot on their heels.  It is obvious that agriculture issues play a heavy role in the […]

By Dustin Howard Spoiler alert: If you have not seen the movie, 13 Hours, and do not wish to have the movie spoiled, read no further. I married a beautiful, non-political woman who watched 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi with me last weekend. […]

By Rick Manning As published at http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/economy-budget/266239-combined-economic-riders-and-defunding-bill-should-unite House Republicans left dozens of important policy riders and measures that defund various parts of the Obama agenda on the table during the failed omnibus negotiation, but that doesn’t mean that their work should go for naught. Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) […]

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By Don Todd Why does the left have such an affinity and affection for criminals? Because deep down they know they are criminals themselves. Lincoln defined slavery as, “you work, I eat.” That is the mantra of the left. Living off the labor of others is called […]

By Rick Manning The brutal Columbus, Ohio murder of Erveena Hammonds and her 7 and 10 year-old daughters , whose throats were slit by an early-released felon, is exhibit A of why Congress should reject legislation designed to let thousands more convicted drug criminals out of federal prison prematurely. If Congress had not enacted the so-called 2010 Fair Sentencing Act , Wendell Callahan would still be […]

By Robert Romano Does South Carolina Republican Governor Nikki Haley have the same speechwriter as President Barack Obama? One might have gotten that outlandish impression after listening to the President’s State of the Union Address and then the very unusual so-called Republican response by Haley . Both speeches shared similar themes and both appeared to target current GOP presidential frontrunner, Donald Trump, […]

By Robert Romano Before Donald Trump was bringing illegal immigration and bad trade deals to forefront of the Republican presidential debate, there was Pat Buchanan. Once a special assistant to President Richard Nixon and also the White House Communications Director under President Ronald Reagan and a regular […]

By Nathan Mehrens Is the practice of forcing public sector employees to pay agency fees to unions on the way out? Based on my observation of the oral arguments in the Supreme Court on Monday in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, I think the answer […]