Throwing Shade on the Second Amendment, by Stacy Washington
Politically correct retailers are traveling down a road of discrimination by setting their own arbitrary age limits for purchasing guns. Since the horrible shooting last month in Parkland, Florida, age restrictions for purchasing the boogeyman of choice — the dreaded AR-15 — have been instituted. In some cases, retailers have ...
CPAC’s Foes Hurl Fake Racism Charges at Right’s Venerable Gathering
Never has the left appeared to have so much interest in the well-being of Michael Steele. He was called both an “Uncle Tom” and “Oreo cookie” (black on the outside, white on the inside) when he ran for the U.S. Senate. While running to become Maryland’s lieutenant governor, he had ...
Project 21’s Washington: Put Community Focus on Results, Not Racism
To solve the “homicide epidemic” and related problems of crime and hopelessness in urban areas, Project 21 Co-Chairman Stacy Washington says there needs to be more community improvement and less lamentation about racism being the root of black America’s problems. In a new commentary, "Cities Need Solutions, Not Scapegoating, to ...
Cooper Exposes California-Style Hypocrisy
Discussing his latest commentary on a recent edition of the Fox Business Network’s “Varney and Co.,” National Center Senior Fellow Horace Cooper called out the “blatant hypocrisy” of government officials in California who are suing energy companies for allegedly lying about their contributions to climate change in the Golden State ...
Making Schools Secure a Common-Sense Solution in Safety Debate
“Doing something” about gun violence in our schools should include focusing on a more straightforward attitude toward providing safety and a modern security strategy for those schools. This is the thrust of a new commentary by Project 21 Co-Chairman Council Nedd II – a constable in Pennsylvania. In his Daily ...
Project 21’s Danner: Friends, Family are “Boots on the Ground” to Prevent Gun Violence
It’s clear the shooter in Parkland, Florida is mentally unstable. There’s also no question it isn’t in anyone’s best interest for such people to have an ability to purchase firearms. This feeling of responsibility is evident among the strongest of Second Amendment advocates. At the recent Conservative Political Action Conference, ...
School Safety is a Common-Sense Solution, by Council Nedd II
America is accused of being afflicted with a “gun culture.” Yet we are always surprised – most recently in Parkland, Florida – when school shootings take our children from us. Our alleged gun culture, if it must be called that, existed since our nation’s founding. The rights our Founding Fathers ...
Cities Need Solutions, Not Scapegoating, to Solve Homicide Epidemic, by Stacy Washington
While Baltimore and Chicago grab headlines, St. Louis counts its dead quietly. For the fourth year in a row, St. Louis reigns supreme as the per capita murder capital of America. The 2017 murder rate was 66 per 100,000 people – three times as high as that of Chicago. If St ...
Project 21’s Cooper Defends Laura Ingraham Against LeBron James and the “Racial Jihadists”
Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper has got Fox News Channel host Laura Ingraham’s back as critics try to slam-dunk her with claims that her regular advice to the celebrity elite – to shut up and ply their trade – was racist when it was offered to basketball star LeBron James ...
Cop-Killer’s Acquittal Sends Sobering Message
A Pennsylvania jury last week acquitted a man who admitted to killing a local police officer. This does not sit well at all with Project 21 Co-Chairman Council Nedd, a Pennsylvania law enforcement professional. In particular, this ruling could have long-term consequences that put more cops at risk. Despite affirming ...
Friends And Family Need To Get Guns Away From Disturbed People, by Jerome Danner
The abominable event that took place at a high school in Parkland, Florida this past Wednesday has caused the nation to shake our collective heads in despair and shock yet again. Immediately after the news broke, cries and outrage came in the seemingly never-ending gun control debate. I have written ...
Comedy Isn’t Funny in the Trump Era
“Comedy is dead, except for calling Donald Trump a Nazi,” said Rodney Lee Conover, a conservative comedian. The jokes have turned very dark lately, as the New York-Hollywood comedy cabal has largely become a weapon of the left in its war on the Trump Administration. With the exception of Jimmy ...
Here is the State of Comedy in the Trump Era, by Jerome Danner
In a sense, comedy in the age of Trump’s presidency is much like comedy during any other presidency: It provides an escapism from the frustrating moments of reality, which include politics. A big difference is that many of today’s more famous comedians share similar political traits to the traits found ...
Millennials Challenged by Murder of Black Lives Matter Activist
In the early hours of February 6, police officers in New Orleans found Black Lives Matter activist Muhiyidin Elamin Moye, aka Muhiyidin d’Baha, bleeding from a bullet wound to his leg. Moye, who rose to prominence in Charleston, South Carolina for his protests against police and public display of the ...
Edwin Jackson’s Death Challenges NFL Protestors, Black Lives Matter
As the Eagles and Patriots battled it out last Sunday during professional football’s big championship game, a death close to home didn’t get as much attention as one might expect. That’s surprising for a season that was marked by protests about compassion and politics. Members of the National Center’s Project ...
Blacks Grade Trump High, Liberals Low in SOTU Performances
With a pocketful of achievements and a hand offered in friendship, President Trump’s State of the Union address is being applauded by members of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network. Sour-faced liberals who rarely clapped during the speech – even at news they should have loved – fared ...
2018 State of the Union Address: “Building a Safe, Strong, and Proud America”, by Emery McClendon
President Donald Trump has delivered his first State Of The Union Address to the nation. His theme was “Building A Safe, Strong, And Proud America.” His primary focus was on opportunities that will lift up all Americans, and to outline a review of his accomplishments of his first year in ...
Black Activists Respond to President Trump’s First State of the Union Address
Trump Congratulated on “Well-Written and Well-Delivered Speech” to “Make Americans Freer, Happier and Even More Prosperous” Washington, D.C. – Following President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address, black activists with the Project 21 leadership network are available for comment. In tonight’s address, President Trump spoke of a “new ...
Blackness as Disability: The Next Level of Victimhood
White nationalist Richard Spencer is universally reviled – and even lost a gym membership – over his racial statements such as “[t]his country does belong to white people, culturally, politically, socially, everything.” Howard County, Maryland Sheriff James Fitzgerald resigned in disgrace after an investigation found he said his black deputies ...
Project 21’s McClendon Critical of SOTU Boycott
As President Donald Trump delivers his first State of the Union address on January 30, there will be one absence the media will be looking for – the “designated survivor.” This is the cabinet member who, like in the television show, will be taken to a secure location as a ...
