180,000 Women Lost Jobs in February While Obama’s Promotes Gender Warfare
It’s probably a pretty safe bet that President Obama won’t be talking about last month’s unemployment numbers when he officiates at “Equal Pay Day” at the White House on Tuesday, April 8. Last Friday, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the overall unemployment rate for the American workforce ...
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About Those March Jobs Numbers…
Is 6.6 percent the best Obama is going to be able to do when it comes to job creation? This morning, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics posted that the official unemployment rate for March was unchanged at 6.7 percent. The alternative U-6 rate that covers the total number of ...
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Al Sharpton Sets Terrible Example By Hugging Vote Fraudster, by Cherylyn Harley LeBon
After he has made such a spectacle of himself in professing that voter protection laws are unnecessary, it was unsettling for Al Sharpton to publicly hug a convicted perpetrator of vote fraud at a public event. Yet, there was Sharpton -- hugging Melowese Richardson on March 20. At a rally ...
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Project 21’s Cooper Cheers Supreme Court’s Campaign Finance Ruling
In today’s decision in the case of McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that an aggregate limit on the amount of money a person may contribute to political candidates and committees is unconstitutional. Writing for the 5-4 majority, Chief Justice John Roberts stated that the federal ...
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Despite Scare Stories, Fears About BPA are Unnecessary, by Cherylyn Harley LeBon
As soon as someone mentions BPA (bisphenol A), I recall the glasses and glass containers our family now uses to replace the plastic containers that previously populated our cupboards. Like many moms, my top priority is keeping my kids safe, so I was concerned about BPA in the past. When ...
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War on Poverty Won’t Be Won – Unless We Change Strategy, by Derryck Green
Afghanistan is not, as the media calls it, "America's longest war." In reality, that is the government's "War on Poverty." In 1986, President Ronald Reagan bluntly said, "poverty won." After 50 years, we're still losing the War on Poverty. The percentage of people living in poverty isn't much different from ...
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Ballot Protection Law in North Carolina Increases Minority, Liberal Voter Registration
When states consider and implement voter ID laws, the usual complaint from the left is that requiring someone to have valid government-issued proof of identification disfranchises minorities, the old and young as well as those who are generally thought to support liberal candidates and causes. If such allegations are to ...
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There Should Be Repercussions if Taxes Aren’t Spent Wisely, by Hughey Newsome
Americans are now at the tail end of the most dreaded season of all – tax season. Unfortunately, many people may not be thinking properly about their taxes at all. I have a friend whose knowledge of tax policy is second-to-none. He's also experienced the highs and lows of our ...
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“Black Code” Plus “Acting White” Equals Self-Created Racial Disparity, by Demetrius Minor
Is America seeing a resurgence of segregation? It's not a reinstitution of race-specific water fountains or separate-but-equal accommodations, but a self-segregation among black youth that could cripple upward mobility. It's a variation on the fear of "acting white." In 2004, a relatively unknown politician named Barack Obama said society should ...
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Is It Open Season on Black Conservatives?
Nearly every member of Project 21, the National Center’s black leadership network created to celebrate the diversity of black political opinion, has a story about how their conservative beliefs led to them being ostracized among their black peers (and often at the hands of their black peers). It happens all ...
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Project 21’s LeBon Recaps Supreme Court ObamaCare Challenge
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the combined cases of Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood — family-owned businesses challenging ObamaCare’s contraceptive mandate under the auspices of free exercise of religion and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (passed overwhelmingly and signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1993) ...
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VIDEO: No, Donald Rumsfeld Did Not Call President Obama a “Trained Ape”
Project 21's Bob Parks says, no, Donald Rumsfeld wasn't calling President Obama a "Trained Ape": Bob says, "It would appear the only people who saw racism in Donald Rumsfeld’s criticism of the Obama Administration’s lack of foreign policy competence are the very people who routinely play the race card, and ...
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Project 21’s LeBon Dispels Hobby Lobby Case Misconceptions
Cherylyn Harley LeBon, co-chairman of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network, schooled ardently liberal host Thom Hartmann on the misinformation surrounding Hobby Lobby’s case against ObamaCare’s contraceptive mandate during the 3/20/14 edition of “The Big Picture” on the RT network. In the one-on-one discussion, Cherylyn noted that the ...
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Holder Fails to Prosecute Vote Fraudster, Sharpton Hugs Her
When Al Sharpton came up close and personal with a living, breathing example of someone who suppressed the lawful votes of her fellow Americans… he hugged the fraudster! Similarly, after that person had their sentence reduced, the Holder Justice Department has thus far declined to take up the case to ...
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Citizenship Check Counters Voter Fraud Concern
A new ruling by a federal judge now paves the way for states to ask for recently registered voters to prove their citizenship before receiving a ballot. U.S. District Court Judge Eric F. Melgren ruled on March 19 that Kansas and Arizona are empowered by the U.S. Constitution to require ...
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Project 21’s Cooper Says Obama Internet Retreat is WWWrong
When the White House seeks to avoid scrutiny, news is usually released on a Friday. This was no exception last week when the Obama Administration announced it was essentially giving up any further control over the Internet. In the fall of 2015, when the U.S. Department of Commerce’s contract with ...
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Project 21’s Swimp Promotes Flat Tax to Reform IRS
Speaking on the topic of IRS reform, Project 21 member Stacy Swimp said that a flat tax is “an idea we need to… discuss.” Sidestepping the obvious “gotcha” question posed by the host about how the government can function should the IRS be completely abolished, Stacy said responsible reform of ...
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Boycott of Florida Businesses Over Stand Your Ground Criticized
Discussion threats of a possible boycott of Florida businesses as a means of forcing the repeal of the Sunshine State’s “stand your ground” law, Project 21 member Shelby Emmett warned that protestors need to be “careful” for both legal and economic reasons about the desire and means of their possible ...
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Rutgers Administration, Project 21 Members, Stand with Condoleezza Rice
As the president of Rutgers University in New Jersey stands by the decision to ask former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to be the commencement speaker at the school’s New Brunswick campus, members of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network are criticizing members of the Rutgers faculty, student ...
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About Those February Jobs Numbers
If things are getting better, why doesn’t it feel like it… and why doesn’t the supporting information seem to support the official unemployment rate? It’s the first Friday of the month, and that means the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics released its report on the jobless numbers for the previous ...
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