CSR and Business Profitability Don’t Mix, Says Borelli
Prompted by the Wall Street Journal editorial about the departure of John Browne from the helm of BP (the company formerly known as British Petroleum), Senior Fellow Tom Borelli sent a letter to the Wall Street Journal, which they published Friday: Social Responsibility Isn't CEOs' Business January 19, 2007; Page ...
Global Warming Scaredy Cats II
Scared of debate, scared of free speech, the global warming alarmists sure are scaredy cats. The Wall Street Journal has found another example: Al Gore apparently is afraid to face a genuinely challenging interviewer. The WSJ article begins: Will Al Gore Melt? By Flemming Rose and Bjorn Lomborg January 18, ...
Fact Checking FactCheck on Medicare Drug Negotiation Proposal
FactCheck.org ran analysis of the Medicare prescription drug bill (the one that would permit Medicare to negotiate prices with the pharmaceutical industry) the other day that included some criticism of claims made by both parties. I asked the National Center���������s Senior Policy Analyst, David Hogberg, if FactCheck knows what it ...
Another AP Global Warming Blooper
The Associated Press ran a story the other day claiming the U.S. once was bound by the Kyoto Treaty. Apparently, then-VP Al Gore signing the thing was all the AP needed to consider the treaty binding on the USA. Never mind the little business in the Constitution about how treaties ...
“American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America” Reviewed
Today's Examiner is carrying a review I wrote on former N.Y. Times reporter Chris Hedges' new book, "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America." "American Fascists" was released by Free Press on January 9. If so inclined, you can read the review here ...
The Social Security Choice We Face
Rep. Mike Pence has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal saying three important things about Social Security: 1) The White House must take tax increases off the table.Says Pence: "Such a tax increase would likely lift or eliminate the cap on the amount of salary and wages subject to ...
I Think the Phrase You Are Looking for is “Double Standard”
A Project 21 press release critical of Senator Barbara Boxer for implying that Secretary of State Condoleeze Rice is less qualified to handle Iraq policy because she is childless brought this comment by email from a corrspondent in the Bronx: "OK, Rice has no children serving in the military because ...
Wal-Mart Advised to Eliminate Appeasement Efforts
Despite attending -- no joke -- a "light bulb summit," Wal-Mart is in the dark about the nature of its adversaries, says Senior Fellow Tom Borelli. Tom says Wal-Mart should stop trying to appease its enemies and go on the offensive ...
Ethics Monitors in Conflict
Interesting. It seems one ethics-monitoring group, the Legal and Policy Center, thinks Rep. Alan Mollohan's recusal from matters relating to the FBI while he remains under FBI investigation is inadequate, while another thinks it is hunky-dory. Rep. Mollohan was chosen Wednesday to chair the House Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee for Science, ...
Project 21 Press Release: Senator Boxer’s Insult of Condoleezza Rice Condemned by Black Conservatives
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) is being criticized by members of the black leadership network Project 21 for implying that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice lacks a proper perspective on the War on Terror in Iraq because she does not have children. "Barbara Boxer is a feminist who is attacking the ...
Health Care Expert Condemns New Liberal Report on Medicare Drug Prices
Washington, D.C. - Research used in a new report by the left-of-center group Families USA, apparently meant to bolster House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's effort to give government employees the power to "negotiate" drug prices under Medicare Part D, is being called deceptive by a health care expert from the National ...
Minimum Wage Employment Impact Study: How To Cook The Numbers 101
David Hogberg examines a study the left often cites as proof that increasing the federal minimum wage won't harm employment: House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, in a speechsupporting an increase in the minimum wage, claimed, According to one recent study small business employment grew more between 1997 and 2003 in ...
Senator Boxer’s Insult of Condoleezza Rice Condemned by Black Conservatives
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) is being criticized by members of the black leadership network Project 21 for implying that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice lacks a proper perspective on the War on Terror in Iraq because she does not have children. "Barbara Boxer is a feminist who is attacking the ...
Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists Hail Stem Cell Breakthrough
With the announcement that researchers have found that stem cells obtained from a mother's amniotic fluid appear to have similar properties and exhibit the same healing potential as stem cells harvested from human embryos, members of the black leadership network Project 21 are hopeful that politicians considering legislation that encourages ...
On Nancy Pelosi’s Smoking Ban
My take on Nancy Pelosi's smoking ban: Given that the Capitol police recently confiscated a well-wrapped peanut butter and jelly sandwich belonging to my six-year-old son, I am rather amazed smoking was simultaneously allowed in the Capitol. I am not one for government-imposed smoking bans generally, seeing them as one ...
Black Activists Praise President Bush’s Aid, Support for Africa
Members of the black leadership network Project 21 applaud President Bush for his largely unrecognized work to aid the African continent through a dramatic increase in humanitarian and developmental aid as well as increased trade and diplomatic interest during his presidency. "From funding for AIDS prevention and treatment to conflict ...
Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists Comment on the Debate Over Troop Levels in Iraq
Now that President George W. Bush has formally announced that 21,500 more soldiers and Marines will be sent to Iraq, and some criticism has been raised by liberals in Congress, veterans who are members of the black leadership network Project 21 are speaking out. The new leadership on Capitol Hill ...
Black Activists Applaud Court’s Support for Race-Neutral Admissions
In the wake of an appeals court decision ordering resistant Michigan universities to immediately implement the race-neutral admission standards overwhelmingly approved by voters, members of the black leadership network Project 21 demand an end to obstructionist legal challenges of the popular new law. "These public and taxpayer-funded universities should immediately ...
A Crying Need for Lawsuit Abuse Reform
The Examiner had a very compelling editorial on the need for tort reform Monday. An excerpt: That there is a crying need for lawsuit abuse reform is beyond question. ...there is substantial evidence of widespread abuse and even fraud at the highest levels of the trial lawyers bar. The costs ...
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