By Rick Manning As published at http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/energy-environment/268410-obamas-oil-barrel-tax-latest-in-war-on-the-poor President Obama never ceases to amaze, with an economic understanding matched only by Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) most ardent supporters. For those who believe that electricity comes from the wall, food comes from the grocery store and clean water comes in […]

By Dustin Howard As it will soon be known, in the bad old days of President Obama’s second term, he used the Department of Justice (DOJ) to attack his most hated of political enemies: gun dealers. In Operation Choke Point , a gun dealer could wake up one […]

By Robert Romano On Feb. 3 on Capitol Hill, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) spearheaded a new effort in conjunction with Hillsdale College and several lawmakers dubbed the Article I Project . The well-intentioned, well-timed project by Lee, who for long has urged the restoration of the constitutional separation of powers, comes […]

By Brian Tilton Americans for Limited Government’s Rick Manning recently asked the question in a Breitbart column , what is Donald Trump’s plan to replace Obamacare?  Upon reading that question, I realized that Trump and very few others have detailed a plan to replace Obamacare.  Fortunately, I live in […]

By Rick Manning As published at http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/01/donald-trumps-health-care-dance/ Do issues still matter to Republican voters, or are they so mad at the failed GOP establishment that they have forgotten what made them mad in the first place? Donald Trump’s past flirtation with a nationalized government run health care system […]

By Dustin Howard Out of sheer self-interest, you would think Congress should realize it is bad politics to endanger their constituents by releasing convicts into their districts. Sadly, you would be wrong. The thinking of the left that America is incarcerating far too many people […]

By Robert Romano The votes are in and the clear winner of the Iowa caucus on the Republican side was Sen. Ted Cruz with 28 percent of the vote, trailed closely by Donald Trump at a disappointing 24 percent and a better than expected Sen. Marco Rubio at 23 percent. Ben Carson and Sen. Rand Paul rounded out the second tier at […]

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By Rick Manning “It doesn’t hurt to show that you actually care. This is a statement that is not just symbolic, but actually shows that you care about people. It doesn’t hurt to show some empathy.” That was Sen. John Cornyn’s (R-Texas) in the New York Times , endorsing legislation that will […]

By Rick Manning Look at the picture above.  American flags on cubicles.  Cubicles once occupied by American high tech workers at an American firm. But something happened?  It was cheaper to use H1B visas to bring in foreign workers to replace these Americans.  So, many of these […]