Project 21’s Borelli Rebuts Jesse Jackson at JPMorgan Chase Shareholder Meeting
Deneen Borelli, Project 21 Fellow, shares at our request the details of her appearance at the question-and-answer session of the recent JPMorgan Chase stockholder meeting, at which she had a decidedly different question for CEO Jamie Dimon than did her predecessor at the microphone, Jesse Jackson: Jesse Jackson appeared to ...
The Lieberman-Warner Cap and Trade Bill: Quick Summary and Analysis, by Casey Lartigue and Ryan Balis
Introduction and summary The United States Senate will soon begin debate on America's Climate Security Act of 2007, popularly referred to as the Lieberman-Warner bill after its chief sponsors, Senators Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) and John Warner (R-VA). The legislation ostensibly is intended to cut U.S. industrial emissions of greenhouse gases ...
Poll Shows Senator Baucus Out of Step with Montana
Baucus Supports Lieberman-Warner Global Warming Bill Rejected by Overwhelming Majority in Region Washington, DC - Senator Max Baucus, who supports America's Climate Security Act presently scheduled for a key Senate vote at 9 AM Friday, is out of step with a majority of Montanans, according to a new poll released ...
Senators Collins and Snowe Out of Step with Maine, Poll Shows
Collins and Snowe Support Lieberman-Warner Global Warming Bill Rejected by Overwhelming Majority in New England Washington, DC - Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, supporters of America's Climate Security Act presently scheduled for a key Senate vote at 9 AM Friday, are out of step with a majority of Mainers, ...
Senator Byrd In Step with West Virginians, Poll Shows
Byrd Opposes Lieberman-Warner Global Warming Bill Rejected by Overwhelming Majority in Region Washington, DC - Senator Robert Byrd, who opposes America's Climate Security Act presently scheduled for a key Senate vote at 9 AM Friday, is in sync with a majority of West Virginians, says a poll released by the ...
Senator Dole Out of Step with North Carolinians, Poll Shows
Dole Co-Sponsored Lieberman-Warner Global Warming Bill Rejected by Overwhelming Majority in Region Washington, DC - Senator Elizabeth Dole (R-NC), as a co-sponsor of the America's Climate Security Act presently scheduled for a key Senate vote at 9 AM Friday, is out of step with a majority of North Carolinians, according ...
What John Warner Doesn’t Know Can Cost You
Senator John Warner to Fox's Neil Cavuto: "Just why [gasoline] prices have skyrocketed, we know not." Shouldn't the co-sponsor of the Lieberman-Warner global warming bill, which several independent econometric studies have concluded would significantly raise consumer gasoline prices, have bothered to learn the mechanics of gasoline pricing before creating, co-sponsoring ...
Lieberman-Warner Spin Tornado Ensnares Journalists
Husband David has shared his analysis of the spin coming from a sponsor of the late and unlamented Lieberman-Warner global warming cap and trade bill, and the media’s response: We've been hit with a fast-moving, spinning column of hot air - and it's not another midwestern tornado. It's Joe Lieberman ...
Rush Limbaugh’s Take on NCPPR’s Lieberman-Warner Poll
Rush Limbaugh discussed the National Center for Public Policy Research's poll on the Lieberman-Warner cap and trade bill Friday. He also discussed a poll on energy production and prices conducted by Gallup. Debate on Lieberman-Warner in the U.S. Senate is expected to begin today. From RushLimbaugh.com, an excerpt: ...A couple ...
Jesse Jackson Outrage Strategy: No Dough, No Go? by David Almasi and Justin Danhof
Remember when Jesse Jackson challenged XM Satellite Radio for its racist advertising? Probably not, since it never happened. Why he didn't is the question. In 2006 and 2007, XM ran television commercials that were blatantly racist, at least under a definition set by Jackson five years earlier. In the commercials, ...
Food Crises and Restrictive African Trade Practices, by Thompson Ayodele
Food prices have skyrocketed internationally. In my own Nigeria, rice has epitomized the crisis after doubling in price since last year. Riots happening around the world over food supplies are prompting panicked governments to find solutions to stem the crisis. Whether they will bring about an abundance of food is ...
New Visions Commentary: Jesse Jackson Outrage Strategy: No Dough, No Go?
Remember when Jesse Jackson challenged XM Satellite Radio for its racist advertising? Probably not, since it never happened. Why he didn't is the question. In 2006 and 2007, XM ran television commercials that were blatantly racist, at least under a definition set by Jackson five years earlier. In the commercials, ...
The Separate But Equal News Network, by Mychal Massie
There's a conservative joke poking fun at liberal media that predicts coverage of an impending apocalypse would have the headline "World to End: Poor and Minorities Hardest Hit." Despite his tenure as a Republican congressman, it seems J.C. Watts never heard that joke. Then again, maybe he did and just ...
Ethanol: The Fuel to Nowhere
Move over "bridge to nowhere," there's a new poster child of congressional waste and avarice - ethanol, the "fuel to nowhere." Ethanol leads only to higher food prices and greater greenhouse gas emissions. Anytime Congress can find an excuse for shoveling out billions of dollars in pork, it's a safe ...
Ethanol: A Burden on the Poor
The red-hot Congressional love affair with the alternative fuel ethanol is starting to leave many supermarket customers feeling mighty blue these days as they pay inflated prices for grocery staples. Even worse, it's likely to dramatically increase the cases of chronic hunger, malnutrition and starvation in the poverty-stricken nations of ...
Black America is Still Not Free, by Reece Epstein
Black America is still not free. Despite the abolition of slavery and passage of civil rights laws, something still holds people back - themselves. That's the view of psychologist Dr. James Davidson, Jr., who says a major problem facing black America is an attitude of self-defeat. He explains his views ...
Poll Shows Little Public Enthusiasm for Lieberman-Warner
About 30 minutes ago, the National Center for Public Policy Research released the poll questions and cross-tabs from our new poll surveying public attitudes toward paying the costs of the Lieberman-Warner cap and trade global warming bill. The poll did not tell respondents that Lieberman-Warner, if adopted and implemented, would ...
Biofuel-Fueled Food Crisis Requires Dramatic Response, Senator Says
Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) has delivered a floor speech calling for "'dramatic' action to address global food difficulties caused in part by current biofuel mandates." Inhofe said, in part: Recently, the world has been confronted with irrefutable evidence that our current biofuels mandates are having massive and potentially life threatening ...
Government Land Acquisition on the Sly
Joe Thomas of WCHV in Charlottesville, Virginia has posted a podcast online of his radio interview with National Center for Public Policy Research Senior Fellow Dana Joel Gattuso. Dana, as many of you know, is the author of the absolutely excellent new paper on conservation easements, "Conservation Easements: The Good, ...
Senator John Warner: Do As He Says, Not As He Does
Would someone please figure out the carbon foot-stomp that Senator John Warner (R-VA) helped make on May 15 just so he could turn a wrench? A ceremony in which Senator Warner was given the honor of tightening the "last bolt" on the almost-completed I-95 Woodrow Wilson Bridge across the Potomac ...
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