Africa’s Failing Approach to Health Care, by Thompson Ayodele
After decades of neglect, effective health care is one of the biggest concerns in Africa. Both foreign donors and African governments, making finding a solution a priority, have opened the money taps. Foreign hard currency is flowing into the health ministries of African countries in unprecedented quantities. Despite this generosity, ...
Global Warming Policies Cool Minority Economic Engines, by Deneen Borelli
For someone once considered "our first black president," Bill Clinton seems to have particular disregard for the economic well-being of minorities when it comes to energy. At a recent rally, the former Man from Hope said: "We just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas ...
Bush Criticized for Pardoning Drug Offenders, Embezzler While Leaving Border Patrol Agents Behind Bars
Washington, D.C. - The chairman of the Project 21 leadership network is condemning President George W. Bush's March 25 issuance of a new set of presidential pardons that includes forgiveness for drug smugglers, an embezzler and others but not for jailed Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean. ...
Listing the Polar Bear Under the Endangered Species Act Because of Projected Global Warming Could Harm Bears and Humans Alike, by Peyton Knight and Amy Ridenour
Introduction and Summary Few animals capture the imaginations of Americans quite like the polar bear. Just ask Coca-Cola, whose animated polar bear advertisement has become an annual holiday staple. Seemingly impervious to the brutal conditions of the Great White North, these mammoth bears exude an aura of cuddly invincibility. But ...
Video: Don’t List the Polar Bear Under the Endangered Species Act
Listing the Polar Bear Under the Endangered Species Act Because of Projected Future Global Warming Could Harm Bears and Humans Alike Learn more about what's behind efforts to list the polar bear as threatened due to projected future global warming, and why doing so would be a bad idea ...
Conservatives Lose When They Shun U.N. Conferences, by Bishop Council Nedd II
Since long before I became involved in Washington politics, my fellow conservatives have sought an American withdrawal from the United Nations. Reasons for getting the U.S. out the U.N. include revulsion over allowable human rights abuses by member nations such as Thailand and China. Conservatives also note the U.N. props ...
Free Market Health Care in Africa Promoted
From David Almasi: Project 21 Associate Thompson Ayodele of the Nigeria-based Initiative for Public Policy Analysis recently wrote a spirited commentary on the need for more private health care in Africa that was published in two major Nigerian newspapers: The Nation and The Independent. Here is a sample of Ayodele's ...
DarkStar’s “Race Hustling” Response
DarkStar has responded to my comments about the letters in the Washington Post by four presidents of historically-black colleges and universities and by Project 21's Mychal Massie, and the Wall Street Journal op-ed by Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom. You can read what DarkStar said here. My response: 1) There ...
Pro-Military Rally Trumps Leftist Hooligans in DC
As noted the other day, Project 21 member Kevin Martin led the D.C. Chapter of Free Republic in a rally of support for armed forces recruiters in Washington, D.C. Monday. The rally was in response to an anti-war rally at the same location by some hooligans who described their activities this ...
Backdoor Imposition of Fairness Doctrine Opposed by Black Broadcasters Who Charge that New “Local Programming” Regulations Under FCC Consideration Could Lead to Broadcast Restrictions
Washington, D.C. - Concerned that proposed Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations regarding "local programming content and diversity" could lead to a new "Fairness Doctrine," black broadcasting veterans affiliated with Project 21 have submitted comments to the FCC opposing new restrictions on currently-accepted political and social content. "We've seen an explosion ...
Another Ethanol Problem: Fire
From Chris Blank of the Associated Press: The nation's drive to use more alternative fuel carries a danger many communities have been slow to recognize: Ethanol fires are harder to put out than gasoline ones and require a special type of firefighting foam. Many fire departments around the country don't ...
Listing the Polar Bear Under the ESA Could Spell Disaster
From Peyton Knight: In reaction to the Bush Administration's deliberation over whether to list the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act the Natural Resources Defense Council's Andrew Wetzler claims: "There's no reason for them not to finalize that decision now." There are big reasons, one of which may explain ...
Project 21’s Massie Responds to Black College Presidents in Washington Post
From David Almasi: Last Sunday, the Washington Post published a letter to the editor from four presidents of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in Maryland, who took issue with Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow and U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Commissioner Abigail Thernstrom asking, in a Wall Street Journal essay, ...
Connerly Reprints Borelli
From Deneen Borelli: Following last year's U.S. Supreme Court rejection of racial preferences in public school admissions, I wrote a New Visions Commentary for Project 21 titled "Diversity Doesn't Need To Be Forced." Ward Connerly, President of the American Civil Rights Institute - a national civil rights organization created to ...
Project 21 Member to Lead D.C. Demonstration Monday Supporting Armed Forces Recruiters
From David Almasi: On February 15, anti-war protestors affiliated with the rejuvenated Students for a Democratic Society marched through Washington, D.C.'s evening rush hour. When they found the local armed forces recruiting station open, the protestors stormed the office and trashed it. The D.C. Police chose not to intervene.This coming ...
Ethanol Subsidies, Mandates May Be Vulnerable
David's op-ed on the many problems with ethanol continues to be picked up by newspapers (since the nine newspapers I mentioned Wednesday, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the Oakland Tribune, the Alameda Times-Star and the Argus in California have run it), and is generating an unsually high amount of comment emails -- ...
Sour Green Grapes
David's comments, posted here last week on the primary election loss of Green Republican Representative Wayne Gilchest of Maryland, have been expanded upon and have now been published in a column on TownHall.com: It seems that Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD) had a bad case of sour grapes – sour green ...
Fan Mail
Our Peyton Knight was featured on BBC's Planet Earth video series. I just ran across this recent email sent to the National Center for Public Policy Research general email box from one of his fans: Mr Knight - I had the chance to listen to your comments offered during the ...
Congressional Love Affair with Ethanol Leaves Others Cold
The red-hot Congressional love affair with the alternative fuel ethanol isn't shared by conservative groups, and a new op-ed by husband David Ridenour shows some environmentalists are skeptical as well. David's piece says, in part: ..."We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history," said Lester ...
Wayne Gilchrest Finds It’s Not Easy Being Green
Statement of David A. Ridenour, Vice President, The National Center for Public Policy Research on the election loss of Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD), a "green" Republican, in Tuesday's primary in Maryland: Politicians who have been cowering ever since Rep. Richard Pombo's narrow loss at the polls two years ago at ...
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