Overwhelming Majority of Americans Oppose Lieberman-Warner Global Warming Proposal, New Poll Suggests
Clinton, McCain and Obama at Odds With 90%+ of Americans Washington, DC - Just as the U.S. Senate is poised to vote on the Lieberman-Warner America's Climate Security Act (S. 2191), a new poll finds an overwhelming majority of Americans oppose the higher energy costs that Lieberman-Warner would impose. The ...
Landowners Beware – The Government’s Found a New Way to Control Your Land
Conservation Easements Not What They Used to Be, Says New Report Under the guise of making more land accessible for the public's use and providing tax relief for land-rich but cash-poor landowners, the government has found a convenient way to restrict the use of private land - often without the ...
Project 21 Member Rebukes Washington Post for Implying Only Liberals Promote Civil Rights
It should be the goal of a civil rights group to put itself out of business. After all, the last one to turn out the light could expect to turn around to face a bright landscape of equal opportunity. There is no denying that the state of racial equality today ...
Photo ID: Bad for Polls, but Good for Premieres
Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Indiana election law requiring that people show valid photo ID at a polling place before they receive a ballot. The decision was made over the outcry of critics who claim it will restrict access to the polls - particularly for the poor, ...
Everybody Pays for Single Parenthood – In More Ways Than One, by Darryn “Dutch” Martin
As a product of a poverty-stricken single-parent home, I know first-hand about the negative baggage that growing up poor and fatherless can breed. Numerous studies note that children born and raised in fatherless, single-parent homes are much more likely to live in poverty, experience depression, have trouble in school and ...
Comment by National Center President Amy Ridenour on Announcement Regarding Listing the Polar Bear Under the Endangered Species Act
The decision to list the polar bear as “threatened” announced today by Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne was probably the best that could be expected from a government agency operating under a severely-flawed Endangered Species Act, but it is a regrettable decision nonetheless. The Secretary’s clear intent to deny environmental organizations ...
Project 21’s Borelli Chides California Lawmakers for Coerced Giving Proposal
By David Almasi: People already hate it when the government tells them what they can buy. Now, California lawmakers are mulling over a proposal that would tell people how they can give to charity.In a commentary published in the May 11 Washington Times, Project 21 fellow Deneen Borelli has criticized ...
A Novel Approach to Requesting a Pardon for Ramos and Compean
David Almasi shares an idea for a novel approach to a pardon request to President Bush for Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean: "Mr. President, I am honored and grateful that you have invited me to your ranch on the wedding day of your daughter. And may their first child ...
A Charity Bill That Would Keep People from Giving, by Deneen Borelli
Despite our society's significant strides in accepting blacks and other minorities, supporters of race and gender preferences continue to try to perpetuate 1950s attitudes by creatively developing new concerns. Their goal: to expand preferential treatment policies. In California, private, public and corporate charitable foundations are now being targeted for allegedly ...
An Earmark + “K Street” Lobbyist = Massive Federal Land Grab
George Bush is now the last remaining hurdle to the establishment of de facto federal zoning along a 175-mile corridor running from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to Charlottesville, Virginia. It’s one of the largest federal land grabs in history. On April 29, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a massive, pork-laden bill ...
Should Earmarks be Spent on Lobbying? Should Lobbyists Represent Congressmen?
Should earmarks paid for with public funds be spent promoting projects under consideration by Congress? Is it OK for a lobbyist to represent a Congressman at a meeting about one of the Congressman's bills? As far as I know, these things as legal, but are they proper? Husband David has ...
NCPPR’s Almasi Comments on CAFE in National Review
In the May 5 print edition of National Review, Fred Schwarz described how the catalytic converter was perfected just as automakers faced potentially crippling federal emissions requirements. Liberals cite this as proof that all that is needed to make technological breakthroughs happen is to give industry a swift regulatory kick ...
NCPPR’s Almasi Comments on CAFE in National Review
In the May 5 print edition of National Review, Fred Schwarz described how the catalytic converter was perfected just as automakers faced potentially crippling federal emissions requirements. Liberals cite this as proof that all that is needed to make technological breakthroughs happen is to give industry a swift regulatory kick ...
Black Activists Rap Cesar Chavez Earmark Bill; President Bush to Decide if Taxpayer Funds Will Honor Militant Activist Whose Followers Used Violence as “Organizing” Tactic
Washington, D.C. - Black activists with the Project 21 black leadership network are highly critical of legislation that would open the floodgates for taxpayer spending to honor the questionable legacy of the late labor activist Cesar Chavez. Project 21 members oppose spending taxpayer funds to honor Chavez as well as ...
Project 21’s Nedd Joins Other Religious Leaders at UN Public Health Conference
Project 21 member Council Nedd II, a bishop in the Episcopal Missionary Church, is returning from Geneva, Switzerland, where he helped lead a non-governmental organization (NGO) delegation to the World Health Organization's (WHO) Working Group on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property. Council was there to defend the intellectual property ...
Why No Black Faces on Greenbacks? by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.
Since before we were a nation, blacks have contributed mightily to the development of what is now the United States. From mining to the space program, black Americans today serve integral roles in our society, leading in fields such as education, politics, religion and sports. One cannot pick up a ...
Conservation Easements: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, by Dana Joel Gattuso
Introduction Conservation easements, as we know them today, are a fairly recent approach to land conservation. As government acquisitions and regulatory restrictions on land use have become prohibitively invasive, costly, and ineffective, governments have looked to conservation easements as a potentially effective and less expensive conservation method than government ownership ...
Wright Comments Hurt Black Churches, by Deneen Borelli
Black churches are facing a threat to their very existence. A few years ago, there were unsubstantiated fears of a campaign of physical destruction by arsonists. There is also the danger every election year of liberal politicians using black pulpits as soapboxes in violation of tax law. This time, however, ...
Flaws in Clean Water Restoration Act Exposed in Congressional Hearings
From Mike Hardiman comes this roundup of information about recent Congressional hearings on the Clear Water Restoration Act: Both the United States Senate and House of Representatives recently held hearings on the Oberstar/Feingold Clean Water Restoration Act. These hearings are a clear sign that the environmental community intends to push ...
NCPPR Senior Fellow Helps Clear the Air on Clean Water
On the heels of congressional hearings in both the House and Senate, the Washington Examiner published a scathing editorial against the proposed Clean Water Restoration Act (CWRA). The editorial came after National Center Senior Fellow R.J. Smith had a long conversation with Examiner editorial page editor Quin Hillyer about the ...
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