Green Congressman Finds Himself a Soon-to-Be Ex-Congressman
Husband David Ridenour has thoughts on incumbent Congressman Wayne Gilchrest's loss in Tuesday's Maryland primary election: Wayne Gilchrest Finds It's Not Easy Being Green Statement by David A. Ridenour, Vice President The National Center for Public Policy Research Politicians who have been cowering ever since Rep. Richard Pombo's narrow loss ...
TWA 847 Hijacking Mastermind Pays the Price
Turns out that Imad Mughniyeh isn't getting away with murder after all: A senior Hezbollah military commander, one of the world's most wanted men for his alleged links to a string of bombings, hijackings and kidnappings during the 1980s and 1990s, has been killed, Hezbollah said Wednesday... ...U.S. officials assert ...
Mom & Pop Pay When Corporations Play Green
Senior Fellow Tom Borelli has had a new op-ed published in which he looks at the benefits "enjoyed" by major corporations after they join left-wing environmental coalitions. A hint: They end up being hurt by the very policies they help the lefties aadvocate. In a sense, there's justice in that, ...
Underserved and Overlooked, by Bishop Council Nedd II
Companies manufacturing new drugs to combat illnesses from the flu to AIDS are at risk of losing their patent rights. Supporters of this say it will make drugs cheaper and more plentiful. Stripping drug companies of this financial security, however, removes the incentive for them to continue the costly process ...
If Visiting CPAC…
From Executive Director David Almasi: If you are attending this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, please be sure to say hello to Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli and National Center Senior Fellow Tom Borelli at the DemandDebate table in the CPAC exhibit hall. They will have National Center for Public ...
Global Warming Alarmists Question the Value of Liberal Democracy
Ms Borelli I thought your article "Global Warming Statists Threaten Our Liberty" was a satire, at first. I chuckled at the insistent defense of your unalienable right to CHOOSE an SUV rather than think of the welfare of the world. Risable, really, as was the rest of the article. Alas, ...
Earthjustice’s Clean Water Poll Comes Up Short
Peyton Knight takes a close look at Earthjustice polling on the Clean Water Act: Last month, the environmental activists at Earthjustice breathlessly released the results of a poll the group had commissioned that supposedly reveals rural voters' feelings on the Clean Water Act. The purpose of this classic push poll ...
Government Health Care Threatens Burgers and Fries?
Three Mississippi state lawmakers have introduced legislation to ban Mississippi restaurants from serving food to obese people. We've written before how government bans on tobacco use in bars and resturants have reduced customer traffic in those establishments (here and here, for example). One can only imagine how few customers restaurants ...
Reducing Waiting Lists by Kicking Patients Off the List
Don Surber is on the case of a plastic surgeon in Great Britain who sent a letter to one of his patients reading: "I am afraid I am writing to inform you of some bad news."I have been instructed by hospital management to remove your name from my waiting list ...
Is a Black Leader Best for Black Voters? by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.
Senator Barack Obama's success on the campaign trail has presented Americans with the first truly viable black presidential candidate. This unprecedented situation has made some wonder whether race should trump other traditional criteria in selecting a commander-in-chief. Using a more traditional criteria such as economics, for example, people support candidates ...
Property Rights Going Up in Smoke, by Sean Turner
"Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place." - Frédéric Bastiat I am a long-time critic of overregulation, including the increasing trend ...
Changing Attitudes, Changing Lives, by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.
Back in 1958, the pollsters at the Gallup organization began what became a regular survey of American attitudes about race. In particular, they asked people whether they approved of interracial marriage and if they could support a black person running for president. The successes of Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) in ...
Critics of Global Warming Agenda are Motivated by a Love of Freedom, Borelli Says
From David Almasi: Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli recently wrote a New Visions Commentary on global warming politics that has been re-posted all over the Internet, including Townhall.com, GOPUSA.com and ChronWatch, to name just a few. Here is a sample of Deneen's commentary: Despite the numerous flaws and ambiguities in ...
Don’t Let Al Sharpton Hold English Hostage
National Center for Public Policy Research Executive Director David Almasi says Project 21's Mychal Massie is right to take on Al Sharpton in the recent Tiger Woods - Golf Channel controversy. Says David: When Golf Channel commentator Kelly Tilghman used the term "lynch" as part of a facetious strategy for ...
Tax Reduction, Not Tax Redistribution, Spurs Economic Activity
The National Center for Public Policy Research's David Ridenour signed on today to a coalition letter on the so-called "stimulous plan" that was organized by the National Taxpayers Union: January 28, 2008 An Open Letter to the United States Congress: Don't Fall for "Stimulus" Fairy Tales! Dear Member of Congress: ...
Pardon Ramos and Compean, Says Project 21 Chairman
Advocates of pardons for incarcerated border agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean have an ally in Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie, who called on President Bush to pardon Ramos and Compean in an op-ed published by the Washington Times: Justice for two by Mychal Massie President Bush has disappointed ...
Are the Airlines Anti-Family?
Planning a trip, husband David Ridenour finds that airlines aren't exactly family-friendly... You ever wonder why airlines are about as popular as used car dealers these days? Perhaps it's due, in part, to their anti-family policies. Case in point: I learned this afternoon that when you fly with your family ...
A New Environmentalist Manifesto
What might an effective environmental movement be like? WILLisms writes what could, and should, be the philosophical basis of a new environmentalist manifesto: I tend to think of myself as an environmentalist, but completely removed from today's movement. I reject the Marxism that pervades the modern environmental movement. On the ...
Wolf-Protecting Oil Drilling Opponent Rep. George Miller Stands Squarely on Both Sides of the Caribou-Protection Issue
From Roll Call, a story about a generous offer by Alaska Rep. Don Young to the very liberal Rep. George Miller: Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) wants California Democrat George Miller’s district to go to the wolves. Young sent a 'Dear Colleague' missive Tuesday attacking Miller and the group Defenders of ...
Ten Myths About Nuclear Power
Rob Johnston, writing at Spiked, takes apart ten myths popularized by British environmentalists against nuclear power. As many if not all of these myths are promoted here in the U.S., I thought I'd reprint them here, but you have to go to Spiked to see Johnson's case for why they ...
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