William Manning

William Manning


  • Wailing and Gnashing at the DNC

    December 9, 2024

    Wailing and Gnashing at the DNC

    Picture a group sitting around a large table at the DNC, wondering aloud, through a veil of tears, how they lost the election.  They blame Joe.  He should have gotten out sooner.  They blame Kamala.  She was a ...

  • The Harris Campaign in Three Acts

    November 2, 2024

    The Harris Campaign in Three Acts

    Consider that politicians are actors performing to obtain votes from their audience.  Kamala Harris has inadvertently presented her campaign in three acts: Act I: Honeymoon Act II: Run Out the Clock Act III: Panic Ensues Along the wa...

  • Stand With the January 6th Protestors

    September 4, 2024

    Stand With the January 6th Protestors

    During the Summer of 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, twenty thousand WWI veterans travelled to Washington D.C., peaceably assembled, and demanded payment of a bonus the government had promised them for their service. On July 28, the...

  • President Trump, Tear Down That Blue Wall

    July 28, 2024

    President Trump, Tear Down That Blue Wall

    The Democrat Party is a monolithic tide which rises and falls in a relentless pursuit of power. After years of defending President Biden’s health, Democrat elites arranged a debate with their nemesis Donald Trump. They set Biden up with a debat...

  • The Kamala transition

    July 12, 2024

    The Kamala transition

    Kamala Harris is the de facto abortion czar for the Biden administration.  While discussing the topic, she noted, “So I think it’s very important, as you have heard from so many incredible leaders for us at every moment in time ...

  • The Cancellation of Liberty

    June 2, 2024

    The Cancellation of Liberty

    Supply chain disruptions were one aspect of the post-COVID chaos the world was subjected to. Politicians were gobsmacked to learn that shutting down the global economy caused markets to function erratically. They believed that markets operate at thei...

  • Biden’s Complicity in the Cancellation of Israel

    May 12, 2024

    Biden’s Complicity in the Cancellation of Israel

    Thousands of Americans are protesting for a change to America’s alliance with Israel. NBC news says, “The movement overall appears grassroots, with localized efforts that coordinate primarily through social media… Nerdeen Kiswani i...

  • Want bipartisan government again? Try this

    March 24, 2024

    Want bipartisan government again? Try this

    Pundits prattle profusely about political polarity, gridlock, and how divided the United States is. But the country wasn’t mired in gridlock in 1968. Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) was the sitting president.  He had been elected in a landsli...

  • Biden’s Iran Policy Is an Existential Threat

    February 24, 2024

    Biden’s Iran Policy Is an Existential Threat

    If the United States slid suddenly into the blazing abyss of hell, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s prayers would be answered.  The ayatollah is Iran’s “spiritual leader and its highest authority — he has the final say o...

  • Open Borders are Biden’s Pandora’s Box

    February 4, 2024

    Open Borders are Biden’s Pandora’s Box

    A nation’s border lies at the intersection of domestic and foreign policy. How a country manages its border, immigration, trade, and related policies informs foreign and domestic stakeholders about governance of the country. It’s a reflec...

  • January 28, 2024

    Evangelicals Embrace Trump. Joy Reid is livid!

    Many liberals are astounded that evangelical Christians support Donald Trump for president.  On the night of the Iowa caucus, MSNBC reporter Joy Reid aimed an on-air rant at “white Christians [who] see themselves as the rightful inher...

  • June 4, 2023

    The Road to Socialism is Paved with Equity

    Equity is one of those quirky words that has numerous meanings, including "the value of an asset" and "justice according to natural law or right."  The first defines equity as the value of financial assets a person might...

  • March 19, 2023

    How to Prevent More Meltdowns like Silicon Valley Bank

    The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) closed the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) on March 10.  The bank was reopened on March 13 as a bridge bank awaiting sale of its assets.  A joint communiqué released March 12 state...

  • March 2, 2023

    Our out-of-control federal bureaucracy

    The Hunter Biden laptop controversy presents a test for American democracy.  The laptop resides at the intersection of two First Amendment rights: freedom of speech and freedom of the press. At the heart of the controversy is the crimina...

  • February 10, 2023

    Republicans Must Take the Lead in Reforming Social Security and Medicare

    The last president to reform Social Security was Ronald Reagan.  He formed the Greenspan Commission to formulate solutions to problems the program faced.  Reagan then worked with speaker of the House Tip O'Neill to enact the s...

  • January 17, 2023

    Liberty and the ‘woke’

    The American people are enduring a relentless woke oppression provoked by liberal elites and delivered by the Democrat Party.  This woke assault is eroding bedrock concepts of western culture.  The woke movement has blurred cultural no...

  • January 9, 2023

    America's Border Remains Open

    President Trump's immigration policy reduced the flow of illegal aliens into the U.S.  This was a significant accomplishment.  One of the most important aspects of Trump's strategy was the "Remain in Mexico" Poli...

  • December 14, 2022

    The Most Frightening Words in America

    The power and influence America enjoys today were delivered by an economic miracle driven by capitalism.  For the first 150 years of the republic, the government had the good sense not to interfere with this miracle.  Government w...

  • November 19, 2022

    The Sort of Red Wave We Got

    On November 8, Republicans were dreaming of catching a red wave that would carry them to victory.  The next day, Democrats snickered at the faint red stream trickling by.  After putting away their surfboards, Republicans scratched...

  • November 3, 2022

    The Democrat War on Fossil Fuels

    On October 19, in the heat of an election campaign, President Biden told the American people, “We need to increase oil production.”  He went on to say, “My administration has not stopped or slowed U.S. oil production.”...

  • September 3, 2022

    Is the January 6 Committee the Beginning of One-Party Rule?

    So much has been said about the January 6  (J6) riot that one might take away a variety of opinions.  The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol (Committee) was ostensibly established to ...

  • August 3, 2022

    Boys Will Be...?

    From the beginning of human history, people have identified themselves as male and female.  This identification is basic, easily understood, and essential for social interaction.  But now liberal elites in the United States demand...

  • July 4, 2022

    Resist, or Be Swept Away

    There is a great deal of consternation in liberal precincts regarding the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.  This is good.  It is the right of every American to voice their grievances.  Abortion is a ...

  • May 29, 2022

    Bigger's Not Better

    There was a time, not that long ago, when it was said there wasn't much difference in  America's two major political parties.  There were exceptions to this paradigm, but it was often true.  The paradigm has shif...

  • May 13, 2022

    What's at stake in the midterm elections?

    It's six months until Election Day.  Democrats are in a difficult position because their policies have failed.  It's too late to change policies to correct the failures.  Events could still dramatically affect th...

  • April 29, 2022

    America's 'Car of State' Is Running Off the Road

    John Adams defined a republic as a "government of laws, and not of men."  The concept of the United States as a republic is quickly becoming an illusion. Envision the republic as a vehicle that has transported the nation from 1...

  • April 18, 2022

    The Sad Truth: America Has No Energy Policy

    The Biden administration, like all political enterprises, loves to take credit but is loath to confess mistakes.  Biden is currently looking for someone, anyone, to take the fall far escalating gasoline prices.  A favorite scapego...

  • March 27, 2022

    Russia and Ukraine: Can America Stay Passive?

    The Russo-Ukraine war has the attention of Americans and people all over the world.  The specter of death and destruction of war is unpleasant to watch but, like a train wreck, impossible to take your eyes off.  Away from the batt...

  • March 18, 2022

    The US Must Face an Existential Threat, but It's Not Climate Change

    Democrats are committed "to eliminating carbon pollution from power plants by 2035."  They want banks to stop financing fossil fuel development by 2030, and they want to end the use of fossil fuels completely by 2050. In reac...

  • March 12, 2022

    What Russia and the USA have in common

    Notwithstanding the many differences between the United States and Russia, perhaps the most striking similarity between them is the existence of an oligarchy that pervades the financial and political structure of both nations. An oligarch is a wea...

  • February 24, 2022

    Whose Fault Are High Gas Prices?

    Many Americans are baffled that the economy has become inflationary and may be heading for a recession.  The price of gasoline is especially troublesome. President Biden blames the baffling backward bounce of the economy on the COVID pan...

  • February 6, 2022

    All Eyes on Putin

    It's a story as old as time.  A powerful country masses an army on the border of a weaker neighbor with the intent to invade or intimidate. Vladimir Putin believes that the mobilization of forces near Ukraine will support Russia'...

  • January 16, 2022

    Who are the real conspiracy theorists?

    There are radical factions within the Democrat party that claim they have been awakened to an ongoing conspiracy that they are determined to thwart.  The conspiracy began when the colonies were settled and continues to this day.  ...