Just Because You Are Eligible For A Premium Subsidy Doesn't Mean You Will Qualify--California Version
Our Dr. David Hogberg looks at premium subsidy plans for California and warns: if you live there and are relying on assistance to help you buy the mandated heath insurance policy under ObamaCare, think again... More on California's health insurance subsidy under ObamaCare...
Big Apple "Voluntary" Composting Idea Stinks; Carries Health Risks, Says New York-Based Risk Expert
Mayor Bloomberg is planning on creating a "voluntary" composting program that will eventually become mandatory, the New York Times reported on Sunday... More on Mayor Bloomberg's composting...
CBS Pittsburgh: Father's Day Brings Mixed Feelings For One Dad
Jessica Berardino of CBS Pittsburgh has a great Father's Day story, "Father's Day Brings Mixed Feelings For One Dad," featuring Project 21's Darryn "Dutch" Martin... More on Father's Day...
Environmental Working Group Seemingly Accuses Our Jeff Stier of Mental Illness on GMO Unauthorized Release
Environmental Working Group accuses our Jeff Stier of being in the "tin foil hat brigade" because he wonders is anti-GMO activists might be behind a move to undermine confidence in GMO safety... More on GMO mystery accusations...
Rogue GMO Wheat Mystery: Did Greens Do It?
Jeff Stier reports: Theres a new twist in the story of genetically modified wheat discovered growing rogue by an Oregon farmer... More on GMO rogue wheat mystery...
Just Because You Are Eligible For A Premium Subsidy Doesn't Mean You Will Get One--Lesson of the DC Exchange
The young and healthy will have a considerable financial incentive to not participate in the ObamaCare-mandated D.C. health care exchange... More on ObamaCare exchange...
Are Popular Food Activists Giving us Good Advice?
In Regulation, Jeff Stier and Dr. Henry I. Miller write, "There are plenty of people out there telling us what we should eatÜand worse, trying to use public policy to make us live by their opinions"... More on food police...
Mixed Feelings on Father's Day
Project 21's Dutch Martin grew up without a father, and saw firsthand how well-intended welfare policies undermined families such as his. This Father's Day he is thankful his son can grow up with the committed father he never had... More on Father's Day...
Kanye Doesn't Provide the Keys to Unlock "New Slaves"
In his song "New Slaves," Kanye West has a tremendous opportunity to teach economic responsibility. So what does he offer? He suggests sexually abusing a "Hampton spouse" and to "tear s--- down." However, Project 21's B.B. Robinson believes he has also opened the door to more socially conscious rap music... More on Kanye West and 'New Slaves'...
California Health Insurance Exchange Headed for a Death Spiral: "Covered California" Will Not Attract Enough Young and Healthy People To Keep Rates Low
"Covered California," the ObamaCare exchange in the Golden State, is headed for a death spiral in which insurance rates become virtually unaffordable, says a just-released paper, "California's Coming Health Insurance Death Spiral," by David Hogberg, Ph.D.... More on new paper on California's health insurance exchange...
California's Coming Health Insurance Death Spiral
Poor California residents -- they're facing a death spiral under the new ObamaCare-mandated health insurance exchange... More on California's health insurance exchange...
Free Market Profit Driven Environmentalism
Waze, the GPS app that Google is considering purchasing, is a great example of a private-sector solution to pollution. Isn't it nice to have be able to address the world's problems without ripping off the taxpayer? More on Waze and pollution...
How Liberals Undermine Public Health: 2 of 2
"The irony is that a tobacco company is selling a product that could help more people effectively quit, and the government is standing in the way," Jeff Stier says in the Gothamist... More on e-cigarettes...
How Liberals Undermine Public Health: 1 of 2
Smoking an e-cigarette is a step towards quitting smoking. So why are folks trying to restrict e-cigarettes? More on e-cigarettes...
Google Apologizes for Easter Snub; Explains Gun Policy
At Google's shareholder meeting, we asked Google's leadership to explain the company's decision to ban gun sales from Google Shopping and its decision to honor left-wing union organizer Cesar Chavez with a Google Doodle on Easter Sunday... More on Google, Easter, Cesar Chavez and gun advertisements...
New Obama Jobless Numbers: Happy Days Still Aren't Here Again
"Combining the teeming masses of underemployed, and still more who are receiving food stamps and other welfare, it'?s not a pretty picture in America these days," notes Project 21's Derryck Green... More on unemployment numbers...
Project 21's Hudson Bashes Back at Bashir's Newest Racial Code Word Discovery: "IRS"
MSNBC's Martin Bashir thinks criticism of the IRS is "the latest weapon against the black man in the White House"... More on Martin Bashir and IRS...
Food Fight Breaks Out on Left
The left and the far-left are bickering over not only the role of government, but of the private sector, in the fight against obesity, notes Jeff Stier... More on obesity...
Stopping Race, Sex-Based Abortions is "Discriminatory" to the Left
The left plays the race card on a law that seeks to stop abortions that are rooted in discrimination against an unborn baby because race or sex. Only in America! More on race and abortion...
Project 21's Arps on New Vote Fraud Conviction and Sanity of Voter ID
To hear the left talk about it, there is no such thing as voter fraud. But there is... More on voter fraud...
Single-Payer Causes Waiting Lists For Health Care
David Hogberg provides one more reason America should avoid the slide into a single-payer health care system... More on single-payer health care...
National Center for Public Policy Research Completes Activity at 32nd Shareholder Meeting of 2013
This week our president David Ridenour spoke to the CEOs of Home Depot and ExxonMobil -- with great success... More on Home Depot and ExxonMobil...
Project 21 Leader Hails Voter ID Victory in Wisconsin
Wisconsin's voter ID law, which requires voters to show valid photo identification before receiving a ballot, was found to be constitutional by a federal U.S. Court of Appeals... More on Wisconsin voter ID law...
Where's the Good Economy We Were Promised?
Don't let the media or recent unemployment numbers fool you. Project 21's Derryck Green gives us a bigger picture of what's going on with the Obama economy... More on economy and unemployment...
The Single-Payer 'Dance Of Nations'
David Hogberg notes that single-payer advocates tend to promote whichever is the newest and, hence, least studied nation to adopt a single-payer health care system... More on single-payer health care...
Free-Market Group Presents Shareholder Proposal to Merck Asking Company to Come Clean on Lobbying Goals and Expenses in Light of Company's Support for Passage of ObamaCare
For the third time, we are demanding accountability from the Merck CEO regarding how much shareholder money the company is using to lobby for ObamaCare and other issues... More on Merck, lobbying and ObamaCare...
Yes, People Do Go Bankrupt From Medical Bills In Single-Payer Systems
Every time the link between medical costs and personal bankruptcy in the U.S. is discussed, the mythmakers are quick to assert that medical bankruptcy does not exist in single-payer health care systems. Not true, argues David Hogberg... More on bankruptcy, health care, and single-payer systems...
Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos Asked to Explain Why Amazon Bans the Sale of Legal Gun Parts to Adults, but Not Videos and Games Depicting Mass Murder and Torture to Young People
At Amazon.com's annual shareholder meeting, CEO Jeff Bezos attempted to duck a question from the National Center for Public Policy Research's Horace Cooper about Amazon's seemingly inconsistent policies toward the sale of violent media and guns, only to face two more shareholders, each of whom expected him to answer it... More on Amazon.com, guns, violent movies and violent video games...
Kennedy Center Finally Gets Serious About Who's Funny
David Almasi salutes the Kennedy Center for overlooking politics this year and instead going old school to pick the winner of the 2013 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor... More on the Kennedy Center and Carol Burnett...
Huffington Post: Ignore the Environmental Activists
In the Huffington Post, Jeff Stier notes that while green groups are picking on pesticides in their Save the Bees campaign, they are ignoring what scientists say could be the real culprits responsible for declining bee populations... More on pesticide ban and saving bees...
Health Care Odds & Ends: Single-Payer Edition
If ObamaCare fails, many on the left will likely be pushing for a single-payer health care system to replace it. But before they go that route, make sure they read these stories of those who suffer under such a system in Britain, Canada and Australia... More on single-payer health care systems...
Project 21's Green on Chicago School Closures: Won't Someone Think of the Children?
Chicago is closing schools as a budget-cutting tactic after giving union teachers in the district a hefty pay raise after a strike last fall... More on Chicago teachers unions...
Exposed: Obama Administration's Selective Law Enforcement
Jeff Stier provides evidence that liberals pretend not to notice when food activists deface private property... More on genetically modified foods...
Time Warner Criticized for Public's Misperception of Gun Crime in America
Gun violence is rapidly declining, but the public thinks it's exploding thanks to bias in the media. We took Time Warner's CEO to task for CNN's contribution to such public misperception... More on Time Warner, CNN, media bias and gun crime...
Kraft and Mondelez Questioned Over Food Stamp Lobbying
We asked the CEOs of Kraft and Mondelez why they are lobbying to ensure food stamp recipients can use your taxpayer dollars to buy junk food... More on Kraft, Mondelez, food stamps and junk food...
Nice Try Democrats, But Oregonians Will Experience 'Rate Shock'
Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee have released a report refuting "rate shock," the claim that the costs of premiums on the exchange will be much higher than they currently are in the individual market. David Hogberg shows that their report is severely lacking... More on Oregon health care exchange "rate shock"...
NAACP Holds Convention in County Under Federal Scrutiny for Voter Intimidation
Project 21's black conservatives find it humorous that the boycott-loving NAACP is choosing to have a major conference in a county it doesn't trust to protect the rights of minority voters... More on the NAACP and the Voting Rights Act...
2.2% Of Cancer Patients File For Bankruptcy
Most people would be inclined to yawn at the above headline. So the media has to make that statistic sound scarier... More on cancer and bankruptcy...
Who Says Conservatives Can't Solve Public Health Problems?
Just because conservatives think the government ought to stay out of our kitchens, doesn't mean we don't have positive ways to address obesity. We do... More on free-market solutions to the obesity epidemic...
Where is the Black Church?
Project 21's Derryck Green says blacks must realize that their cultural redemption won't come from the tip of a pen of a liberal politician. It will come by returning to biblical values... More on black churches...
Black Conservatives Call Obama's Morehouse Commencement Speech "Divisive," More of the Blame Game
Project 21's Lisa Fritsch says, "Once again, President Obama has shown off his prowess at giving advice that he himself does not follow and empathizing with situations he has never endured"... More on Obama's Morehouse commencement speech...
Arctic Council Meeting Proves It's A Circular World
The Arctic Council's climate change discussions this week are connected to your personal grocery store purchases... More on the Arctic Council and HFC's...
Tiffany & Co. Goes Far-Left; Supports Boycott on Expanding U.S. Access to Critical Minerals
Tiffany & Co. has chosen to appease the environmental left rather than consider sound science... More on Tiffany and Pebble Mine...
NAACP Leader's Double-Standard on Alleged IRS Abuse
The NAACP's Julian Bond says that Tea Party activists deserve the IRS abuse they have endured over the last two years, though he should be the first to sympathize... More on the NAACP, Tea Party, and IRS...
The Health Care You Get Will Depend On Your Political Clout--Specialty Drug Edition
Some people who need expensive "specialty drugs" are about to get a nasty surprise thanks to ObamaCare... More on ObamaCare and prescription drugs...
The IRS, Charlie Manson And Pirates Versus Patriots
The IRS is discouraging "patriots" working to "make America a better place" while giving Charlie Manson's followers and "pirates" tax-exempt status... More on Sea Shepherd...
Sharp Words Exchanged at Comcast Shareholder Meeting
Sharp words were exchanged at Comcast's annual shareholder meeting in Philadelphia today between Comcast CEO Brian Roberts and conservative activists David Ridenour and Justin Danhof, with Ridenour at one point condescendingly offering Roberts help in creating an accuracy policy for Comcast's NBC Universal and Danhof telling Roberts, "you can sit and laugh, but I'm going to finish my question." ... More on Comcast...
Why Does Comcast Refuse to Tell Shareholders How NBC, MSNBC and CNBC Reduce the Risk of Libel Suits?
This morning, at the 2013 shareholder meeting of Comcast, owner of MSNBC, NBC and CNBC, David Ridenour, president of the National Center for Public Policy Research, intends to ask Comcast CEO Brian Roberts why his company used shareholder dollars to fight a shareholder's proposal asking Comcast to prepare a low-cost report, omitting proprietary information, describing the procedures Comcast uses to avoid the risk and exposure of libel, slander and defamation lawsuits... More on Comcast...
Comcast Bans Gun Ads While Running Violent Programming
Today, at the annual meeting of Comcast shareholders in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a representative of the National Center for Public Policy Research plans to question Comcast CEO Brian Roberts about his company's hypocritical decision to ban gun and ammunition advertising on its airwaves... More on gun advertising bans and violent programming...
Black Conservatives Discuss Guilty Verdict in the Gosnell Abortion Murders Case
Members of the Project 21 black leadership network who spoke out early in the case when Gosnell's attorney attempted to play the race card to his client's advantage are commenting about the verdict and what it says about America... More on Gosnell verdict...
