About: John F. McManus
Posts by John F. McManus
Alabama Chief Justice Defiant Over Same-sex Marriage Rulings
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore just sent a letter to Alabama Governor Robert Bentley urging defiance of “judicial tyranny,” specifically asking the governor and other state officials to ignore...
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He’s Very Opposed to President Obama’s Opening to Cuba “This deal the president has come up with is a terrible trade-off. In the words of Raul Castro himself, Cuba...
Wrong Way to Make Law
Every federal official solemnly swears an oath to support and defend the U.S. Constitution. Once having met that requirement, practically all of these officials put the document in their...
Black Sheriff Scorches “Black Lives Matter” Protesters
Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke, Jr. aimed a stinging rebuke to the many protesters who have clogged streets, blocked highways, and demonstrated their breast-beating concern over the killing by police...
Climate Scare Mongers Attack Freedom
The goal of the global-warming scaremongers amounts to an attack on freedom. ...
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Former Judge Turned Judicial Analyst Urges Impeachment to Deal With Rogue President “We have a lawless president who is saying to five million people, ‘You want to stay here?...
Unemployment and Job Figures Aren’t Truthful
The Obama administration has customarily provided dishonest unemployment figures, and if two new trade pacts are approved by Congress, the already bad unemployment situation will grow even worse. ...
Say No to Dangerous Trade Pacts
Congress should never cede its constitutional prerogatives by granting “fast-track authority” to the president. And both the job-threatening and foreign-entangling TPP and TTIP should be rejected. ...
Lower Gasoline Prices Provide Motivation for Taxing Carbon Emissions
Lawrence Summers has proposed that the decline in the price of each barrel of oil greatly improves chances for imposing a carbon tax on the nation. ...
Ignoring the Full Truth About the Castro Brothers
The recent change in the official U.S. attitude toward Cuba amounts to a huge victory for the Castro government now led by Fidel’s brother Raul. ...
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What Are You if You “Lead” and No One Follows? “I learned a long time ago if you’re a leader and nobody’s following you, you’re just a guy out...
Deficits Invite Catastrophe
There is no way out of this increasingly grim fiscal situation but a sharp cutback in federal spending. ...
How Did “Withdraw All Troops” Become Adding Thousands?
Is it correct to state that after nearly eight years of war in Iraq and the loss of 4,500 American lives the United States has finally pulled all of...
John McCain May Acquire More Neoconservative Allies in 2015
Washington watchers have suggested that the neocons are likely to increase their numbers as a result of newly elected Republican senators. ...
America’s Culture of Death
Michael Brown died on August 9. But aborting babies, a large number of whom are black, continues in the state where he lived, and the silence about their passing...