A Public Option in Health Care Doesn’t Mean Low Overhead
One of the arguments proponents of the so-called "public option" in health care reform often make is that health insurance company executives make too much money. I wonder how many of these people realize that almost 60 administrators in the British government's National Health Service are paid more than the ...
Climategate Should Put a Halt to Duke Energy’s Lobbying for Cap-and-Trade
The National Center's Free Enterprise Project has called on Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers to cease lobbying for cap-and-trade in the wake of revelations regarding the integrity of processes underpinning the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s climate conclusions. In the Climategate scandal, released documents from a British university ...
Project 21’s Council Nedd on MSNBC’s “Dr. Nancy” on Wednesday
Project 21 member Bishop Council Nedd II is scheduled to appear on MSNBC's "Dr. Nancy" program that airs at 12:00 PM eastern on Wednesday, December 2. Council's segment is expected to be in the second half of the program. Council is set to discuss the religious considerations at stake with ...
“An Animal Would Have Been Treated with More Compassion”
Debra Luck, the widow of Ian Luck, believes the medical staff at the British government's Princess Alexandra Hospital was so neglectful of her late husband's care during his last days that he effectively "was murdered... because people couldn't be bothered to do their job properly." Ian Luck spent the last ...
Health Care Bombshell: ObamaCare Would Doom Medicaid
Writing for the Heritage Foundation, Dennis Smith and Ed Haislmaier have today exposed a huge political drawback to the liberal health care bill: ObamaCare -- without intending to -- could, almost certainly would, be the death knell of Medicaid, America's health care safety net for the poor. Smith and Haislmaier ...
ConservaCare: An Alternative Health Reform Plan, by Matt Patterson
On November 3, Republicans in the House of Representatives unveiled an alternative health care reform plan,1 which they claim contains "common-sense health care reforms our nation can afford."2 The bill was introduced as a substitute amendment by House Republican Leader John Boehner of Ohio,3 and defeated in roll call vote ...
The Return of Race-Based Voting, by Bishop Council Nedd II
The Return of Race-Based Voting by Bishop Council Nedd II (bio) Atlanta is called the "city too busy to hate." But some political activists found the time. Kasim Reed, a state senator, just won a runoff election to become Atlanta's next mayor by a mere 714 votes. On Election ...
Obama Buys The News, by Matt Patterson
Is ABC News a legitimate news organization? Not, apparently, by the standards of the Obama administration. Speaking of Fox News, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn told The New York Times, "We're going to treat them [Fox] the way we would treat an opponent… As they are undertaking a war ...
Tiger Woods and the Problem of the “Great Black Example,” by Lisa Fritsch
Tiger Woods and the Problem of the "Great Black Example" by Lisa Fritsch (bio) There's an interesting wrinkle in the Tiger Woods scandal. There are some blacks who are angry that none of Tiger's mistresses were black. For example, a recent New York Daily News headline declared "Tiger Alienates Black ...
Don’t Shortchange Your Kids at Christmas, by Mychal Massie
Don't Shortchange Your Kids at Christmas by Mychal Massie (bio) Christmastime is supposed to be a time of good cheer, but what I have to say about it will likely offend some and infuriate others. More often these days, it's a time dominated by the concern: "What do ...
Britain Investigates Deaths in Government Hospitals
From the Times in Britain, November 28: An immediate investigation to uncover the true extent of death rates across the [British government's National Health Service] has been ordered by the Health Secretary after scandals at two hospital trusts.Amid claims that patients are dying due to poor care in at least ...
Only a Special Prosecutor is Going to Bring Justice to the Justice Department, by Mychal Massie
It's time the Obama Administration came under the scrutiny of its first special prosecutor. Michael Mukasey, predecessor of current Attorney General Eric Holder, correctly appointed a special prosecutor to investigate if politics guided hiring and firing decision in the Bush Justice Department. Holder should follow his lead, but he hasn't ...
Canadian Cancer Patient Fights Bureaucracy in Desperate Fight for Life
To fight advanced colon cancer, Canadian Suzanne Aucoin needed Erbitux, a powerful anti-cancer drug, but the Canadian health bureaucracy said it wouldn't pay. Aucoin traveled to New York to get the drug and to begin treatment on her own. "I am completely disgusted with our health-care system," Aucoin said. Suzanne ...
Hollywood Hypocrisy (Again)
A column by Jonathan Foreman in Britain's Times excoriates celebrities who tell ordinary folk to do without in the name of environmental protection while living a very wasteful lifestyle themselves. My favorite hypocrisy example is the famous actress who boasted of brushing her teeth in the shower to help the ...
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See Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie in NYC Panel Discussion on Effects of Obama Victory on Black Youth This Monday
By David Almasi: Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie will participate in a panel discussion sponsored by The Smith Family Foundation on "Does the Election of Barack Obama Portend the Effective End of American Racism?"The event will be held on Monday, December 1st at 6:30pm at the Lighthouse Theater (111 East ...
Not Giving Thanks
The Washington Times Inside the Beltway column today is quoting Project 21 Senior Fellow Deneen Borelli from this press release Wednesday ...
How Political Correctness Kills, by Kevin Martin
How Political Correctness Kills by Kevin Martin (bio) Nidal Malik Hasan faces murder charges in the shooting deaths of 12 soldiers and one civilian at Fort Hood. His co-conspirator, "political correctness," remains at large. While political correctness runs amok, no one is safe. In Hasan's case, political correctness protected his ...
Election Law-Violating Astroturf Group Misleads About Pebble Mine… Now There’s a Surprise
Click to enlarge A group calling itself Alaska Wild Salmon Protection, Inc. recently ran full-page advertisements (see above) in Politico against development of the Pebble Mine in Southwest Alaska. The Pebble deposit is one of the largest finds in America, believed to contain 72 billion pounds of copper and 94 ...
Black Friday Payback: Vote with your Wallet — Don’t Buy Products from Companies That Support President Obama’s Cap-and-Trade Policy
Washington, DC - Today the Free Enterprise Project of the National Center for Public Policy Research calls on patriotic Americans to vote with their wallets starting on Black Friday and avoid buying products from companies that are working with President Obama and liberals in Congress to impose cap-and-trade policies. "The ...
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