Mychal Massie on C-SPAN
Mychal Massie, chairman of Project 21, was a guest on C-SPAN's Washington Journal this morning, where he took questions from Brian Lamb and callers, and discussed a bevy of public policy issues, his thoughts on race, religion and such subjects as the impact of Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" on America, ...
Diversity Doesn’t Need to Be Forced, by Deneen Borelli
Diversity Doesn't Need to Be Forced by Deneen Borelli (bio) Supporters of racial preferences think the U.S. Supreme Court's recent rejection of preferences in school admissions heralds the death of diversity in America. Critics of the Court's promotion of race-neutral standards believe enforced diversity diminishes discrimination and is necessary for ...
Britain’s Government Health System Rules $5 a Day Too Much for Drug to Battle Alzheimer’s
I can't improve on Tom Blumer's post about Britain's National Health Service's ruling denying Aricept to people with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's -- to save money. In a post last year, I discussed Britain's denial of the drug Herceptin -- a standard treatment here in the USA -- for cancer treatment in ...
A Message for the Lady Who is Suing Don Imus
Project 21's Dutch Martin has a few words for the young lady who is suing Don Imus: As a race, blacks endured hundreds of years of slavery and then legalized segregation, brutal racism and other forms of discrimination well into the 20th century. We emerged from this hardship a stronger ...
Rare Identical Quadruplets Born; Already Mistreated by Canada’s Socialist Medical System
At the end of this sweet story about a Canadian woman, Mrs. Karen Jepp of Calgary, giving birth to a set of identical quadruplets (who were conceived without fertility drugs, the AP irrelevantly tells us) comes this: The Jepps drove 325 miles to Great Falls for the births because hospitals ...
Another Idiotic Environmentalist Opinion
I don't usually use words like "idiotic," even when appropriate, but this gentleman's correspondence makes the word especially apt. Our position on invasive species legislation, as shown here, is that it "should be case-specific, weigh species' benefits against costs, and... be based on peer-reviewed scientific evidence." To this I believe ...
Kansas City Homicide: Media Reports U.S. Health System is to Blame
The pro-socialized medicine lobbyists like to circulate U.S. health care system horror stories, such as this one they are circulating on email lists today (and which Daily Kos editorialized about here) about a man who allegedly murdered his wife, supposedly because he couldn't afford her medical bills. In covering this ...
Dutch Martin Speaks Out on Lawsuit Against Don Imus
Project 21 member Darryn "Dutch" Martin made the following statement with regard to the lawsuit for slander and defamation of character filed by Rutgers women's basketball team member Kia Vaughn again Don Imus, former Imus co-host Bernard McGuirk, CBS Corporation and CBS Radio: "As a race, blacks endured hundreds of ...
Dutch Martin Speaks Out on Lawsuit Against Don Imus
Project 21 member Darryn "Dutch" Martin made the following statement with regard to the lawsuit for slander and defamation of character filed by Rutgers women's basketball team member Kia Vaughn again Don Imus, former Imus co-host Bernard McGuirk, CBS Corporation and CBS Radio: "As a race, blacks endured hundreds of ...
Seeing Right Through This Capitalism Nonsense*
Drawn by the fact that he quoted the National Center's own Ryan Balis, I read this essay on the housing market by Al Pennam at Conservative Compendium. It's excellent. *Yes, the title of this post, taken from Al Pennam's article, is sarcastic ...
Possibly Non-Existent Mouse Shatters Family’s Dreams
A Wyoming family's dream to build an indoor horse-riding arena on their property is on hold because the area on which they want to build is designated critical habitat for Preble's Meadow Jumping Mouse - whose existence as a separate, identifiable species is being debated. Possibly Non-Existent Mouse Shatters Family's ...
Fuel Economy Hypocrisy
Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli had an op-ed Thursday in the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel on proposals in Congress to increase Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards. Says Deneen, in part: ...Congress is grappling with raising Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards to mandate higher gas mileage for cars, light trucks ...
Washington Temperature Records
From David Ridenour: The Washington Post reports today that "the temperature hit 102 degrees at Reagan National Airport, according to the National Weather Service, breaking by one degree the record for Aug. 8, set in 1930."The trouble is, this can't be backed up. You see, Reagan National Airport didn't open ...
Maybe Bill Nelson Should Resign
From husband David: Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) has said he plans to convene a hearing to look into why Everglades National Park was taken off the United Nations’ “List of World Heritage in Danger.”But why bother? The Senator has already made up his mind on the subject: He blames Deputy ...
Washington Post Cheerleads Conversion of a Small Number of Evangelicals to Anti-Global Warming Activism
Juliet Eilperin of the Washington Post had a worthy entry in the category of wishful-thinking opinion-newswriting on page A1 of the Washington Post Wednesday, with her story "Warming Draws Evangelicals Into Environmentalist Fold." Based on the content of the piece, it might better have been titled, "Assiduous Environmentalist Lobbying Draws ...
Power Line Asks About Journey Through Hallowed Ground
Paul Mirengoff of Power Line has asked Senator John McCain what he thinks about the federal Journey Through Hallowed Ground legislation: Towards the end of the interview, I asked McCain about legislation recently proposed in the House that would use federal money to create a multistate land use planning body ...
Missouri River Plan Hurt Local Residents
In an effort to protect endangered birds and fish, a federal judge restricted the amount of dammed water allowed to flow into the Missouri River. As a result, water levels became too shallow for regional farmers to ship goods by barge, forcing them to use more costly transportation alternatives. Missouri ...
Legislative Schizophrenia
Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli had an op-ed in the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram Monday discussing a particularly lethal form of legislative schizophrenia. Says Deneen: Congress can't seem to make up its mind: Does it support safer vehicles or oppose them?At the very time that Congress is considering a Bush administration ...
Law of the Sea Debate Continues
The conversation that began with Doug Bandow's article in the American Spectator on the law of the Sea Treaty, continued in the American Spectator's letters column and then moved to this blog goes forth with a rebuttal to husband David's last points from Robert J. McManus of Kile Goekjian Reed ...
Newsweek’s Climate Change Monstrosity
Kudos to Marc Morano of the Senate's Environment and Public Works Minority Staff for surrendering several hours of his life in the cause of debunking an incredibly, almost jaw-droppingly bad article ("Global-Warming Deniers: A Well-Funded Machine," by Sharon Begley with Eve Conant, Sam Stein, Eleanor Clift and Matthew Philips) on ...
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