Opinions

Are You An Overprotective Parent?

Good parents want to be involved in their children’s lives, but for years educators and psychologists have been asking the question: How much parental involvement is too much? When does trying to help your children in school, sports, and myriad other ways go too far, hurt their development, and...

Church Mice and Crickets

Fellow Americans, Turn on any TV channel or tune in to any radio station and you will be immediately bombarded by anti-Trump propaganda accusing him of everything from treason to jaywalking. The mainstream media hates President Trump so much it will continue to smear him until he is ousted from...

Too Many Guns

Fellow Americans, In the August 27th edition of the Caldwell County News, I read an interesting letter to the editor by Roger McPheeters of Braymer. He was critical of my letter to the editor, On The Attack, in which I affirmed my support for the 2nd Amendment. In my letter I argued that after...

Negative interest rates are the death of capitalism

Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement responding to President Donald Trump's tweet on negative interest rates where he wrote, "So Germany is paying Zero interest and is actually being paid to borrow money, while the U.S., a far stronger and...

The Outdoor Journal by Kyle Carroll

Woodstock may be the best-known rock festival of all time, but it's likely that the Ozark Music Festival held over the weekend of July 19-21, 1974, was bigger. But how is this an “ Outdoor Journal” column? Well, that's a good question. The big festival on the State Fair grounds in Sedalia makes it...

It’s Our Own Fault

Fellow Americans, Our elected representatives are abusing American taxpayers by their out of control spending. The politicians, with their own desires for wealth and power, are happy to play in Washington D.C. with our money (tax dollars). To support their spending addiction, politicians eagerly...

Stop Mass Shootings by Fixing the Family

The tragic violence this weekend in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, is met with pundits and politicians trying to identify the problem and offer fixes. Some will blame it on guns, some will blame it on mental illness, some will blame it on video games and media. The problem is deeper than that...

On the Attack

Fellow Americans, As you know by now, there were two recent mass shootings in our country. The first one occurred on August 3,, 2019, inside a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas. The suspect fired on unarmed shoppers, killing 20 and wounding as many. When the police responded, the suspect...

PRO Act would force workers to join unions they oppose and destroy jobs

July 23, 2019, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging Congress to oppose the PRO Act: “The PRO Act is a great illustration of just how radical and out-of-touch today’s Democrat Party is. The bill, which has 179 House Democrat...

Pay the Piper

Fellow Americans, Of all the stories in the news lately, one has been completely overlooked. It’s the elephant in the room that is seen but ignored because it is uncomfortable to acknowledge. The elephant I’m referring to is our national debt. According to www.usdebtclock.org, our national debt...