Regarding Jacques Chirac’s Kyoto Tax: A Counterproposal
Jacques Chirac of France has proposed a Kyoto tax, specifically, an import tax against the U.S. and other nations shunning the Kyoto global warming agreement and its successor treaty, the soon-to-be-negotiated Kyoto II: This Time We Mean It (Wink Wink). Chirac's Kyoto tax is a tad ironic, as it appears ...
Global Warming Scaredy Cats III
From Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam, last year: I sat in a roomful of journalists 10 years ago while Stanford climatologist Stephen Schneider lectured us on a big problem in our profession: soliciting opposing points of view. In the debate over climate change, Schneider said, there simply was no legitimate ...
We’ve Got Political Leaders Who Rely on Blacks Being Slaves and Underdogs, Says Project 21’s Reginald Jones
Project 21 member Reginald Jones spoke frankly about Black History Month at a speech at Ohio University earlier this week. As reported by the Athens News (excerpted): Black conservative activist Reginald Jones discussed his controversial view of Black History Month, criticizing the media and politicians, in a lecture Tuesday night ...
An Apology for Slavery is Redundant, Says Project 21’s Mychal Massie
As quoted in the Dallas Morning News, Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie says an apology for slavery -- presently under consideration in the Virginia legislature -- is redundant: "Not every black person in this country is a descendent of slaves. Not every white person in this country is a descendent ...
Ronald Reagan’s Birthday Party
David Almasi and his wife Nancy had a birthday party for Ronald Reagan this week. They've shared a picture of the cake. Here's something we wrote in commemoration of Reagan's birthday in 2005. I particularly draw your attention to this link to a picture of a rainbow's pot of gold ...
Wal-Mart Calling for Socialized Medicine?
Hard to tell, since the statement their executives apparently agreed to is meaningless pap, but the presence of the Center for American Progress and some ardently left-wing labor unions at an event calling for universal access to health coverage hardly makes it sound like a call for more health savings ...
“I Was Shocked at the Ignorance and Rudeness of the Members of Congress”
Joe Roche attended Rep. Henry Waxman's hearing on private military contractors on February 7. He wasn't very impressed -- with Rep. Waxman and his colleagues, that is. Dear Amy,The House Governmental Reform Committee hearings, led by Rep. Henry Waxman, are an absurd display of abuse, distortion and recklessness. I attended ...
Gay Marriage Activists Seek to Put the Government in Bedrooms
The folks who try to argue that traditional marriage can't be harmed by the gay rights agenda might want to tell these folks to put a sock in it. Trying to get a law passed to forcibly annul marriages if the couple does not have children within three years of ...
Environmentalists are Hypocrites
Environmentalists scream bloody murder when the Administration involves itself in the preparation of government science-related press materials and reports, mistakenly screaming "censorship" when government scientists are required to follow even the most benign procedures. On the other hand... Environmentalists also demand near-worship of the IPCC, which mandates that its reports ...
Kennedy Mum on Chavez?
Now that several days have passed since Venezuela's "legislature" gave Hugo Chavez a dictator's powers, I thought I'd visit the website of his American buddy, former Congressman and Citizens Energy Corp CEO Joseph P. Kennedy II, to see if Kennedy and his organization, which accepts subsidized oil (in-kind donations) from ...
300+ Years of Activity Will Lead to Results 100 Years From Now
Check out the math in this AP lede: Global warming is so severe that it will 'continue for centuries,' leading to a far different planet in 100 years, warned a grim landmark report from the world's leading climate scientists and government officials ...
National Center for Public Policy Research Turns 25
I wouldn't want to let the day go by without -- rather self-indulgently -- wishing a happy birthday to us. Although the National Center for Public Policy Research was legally incorporated on September 14, 1981, our first day of business was February 2, 1982. If memory serves, it was a ...
Is Health Care for the Poor Better Abroad?
The National Center's David Hogberg has noticed a theme among left-of-center polemicists, who, when writing on health care, seem to be assuming that the poor get better health care when they live in nations with government-run systems. But is this assumption based on solid evidence? David examines the question: I've ...
Might “Strengthening Black Families Month” Be Better Than Celebrating Black History? by La Shawn Barber
It's Black History Month again. Time to break out the tributes to Martin Luther King, go downtown to listen to bad poetry and look at bad art about the struggles of black folk, belt out a chorus of "We Shall Overcome" and sit through endless "celebrations" and TV shows about ...
Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists React to Senator Joe Biden’s Comments About Senator Barack Obama
In calling Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) a "storybook" candidate based on his view that Biden is "articulate, bright and clean," Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) has angered members of the black leadership network Project 21, who say Biden's remarks are elitist, condescending and insensitive. "Joe Biden's comments are completely unacceptable and ...
Is Health Care for the Poor Better Abroad
The National Center's David Hogberg has noticed a theme among left-of-center polemicists, who, when writing on health care, seem to be assuming that the poor get better health care when they live in nations with government-run systems. But is this assumption based on solid evidence? David examines the question: I've ...
Have Blacks Advanced in the 21st Century? by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.
Six years ago, I made a public plea for our community to achieve a set of goals that would move us further up the path toward full integration into American society. I said at that time - and I still consider it to be true - that if full integration ...
Why the “N” Word Grows in Popularity, by Jeffrey Hicks
The "n-word" is perhaps the most emotionally-loaded term in the English language. Throughout its history, the n-word's usage was primarily meant to dehumanize, debase and dishonor African-Americans. In the "good old days," the word was used by bigots with either contempt or patronization. Its underlying meaning, however, was always the ...
Oprah Shouldn’t Give Up on Our Kids, by Deneen Borelli
After visiting our nation's failing urban public schools, Oprah Winfrey felt frustrated. In an interview with Newsweek magazine, she said: "I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools in the U.S. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. In America if you ask the kids what they ...
Project 21 Press Release: Black Activist Takes Issue with School Choice Opposition
Senator Edward Kennedy's (D-MA) opposition to a proposed revision of the federal "No Child Left Behind" educational policy to allow school choice is evidence of an elitist attitude and a willingness to put the desires of the teachers' unions over the needs of students according to a fellow with the ...
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