By Rick Manning In a major victory for free speech, the Internal Revenue Service buckling under the weight of more than 150,000 citizen comments announced it was going back to square one in its regulatory attempt to redefine political activities by 501(c)(4) organizations. Americans for Limited Government […]

By Brad Tidwell Ironic, coming from the union advocating for a $10.10 minimum wage … Defending this industrial-era practice is stopping a local UFCW union from letting their members earn more money : Why did Local 23 oppose higher pay for its members? Because it upended their seniority system, allowing junior employees to make more those with more seniority. Local 23 wanted […]

By William Warren   Click here for high resolution version. As seen on TV: Obama’s leadership failure

By David Bozeman Congress recently approved — by an overwhelming margin — a commission to study the creation of  a National Women’s History Museum on the National Mall.  Supporters say it’s about time. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann doesn’t think so, stating that numerous museums and galleries […]

By Tom Toth “I first learned about it from the same news reports that I think most people learned about this.” -President Barack Obama Barack Obama’s lack of operational awareness of what’s happening within his own federal bureaucracies has reached legendary proportion. The most recent institutional crisis […]

A version of this article was originally published on TheHill.com. By Rick Manning Beating incumbents is difficult. That is real lesson that can be taken from the Republican Senate primary election in Kentucky pitting Minority Leader Mitch McConnell against businessman Matt Bevins. There is a reason why incumbents who choose to run for reelection overwhelmingly get reelected. […]

A version of this article was originally published on TheHill.com. By Rick Manning The Department of Transportation is fining General Motors (GM) $35 million for waiting too long to recall 2.6 million vehicles with faulty ignition switches. Automotive News  reports  that the ignition switch failures have been linked to 35 crashes and 13 deaths. This announcement comes on […]

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By Rick Manning As originally published at the Washington Examiner. A recent Gallup poll of registered voters shows that voter enthusiasm is at a 20-year low-point based upon responses to a question that has been asked and tracked since the Contract with America election in 1994. The question is simply, “Compared to previous elections, […]

By Tom Toth Barack Obama is a dreamer, but he’s not the only one. The supporters of Common Core standards, Obamacare, and socialist economic policies seem to have fallen hopelessly in love with the ideas behind these policies. Because the left can’t quite seem to wrap their […]