Current Spending Legislation: “Government Breaks Promises”
On the 12/15/10 edition of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Project 21 fellow Deneen Borelli talks about the rising deficit and broken promises about spending with host Sean Hannity, National Review editor Rich Lowry and Fox News commentator Juan Williams. Share Article | Permalink Email Article | Print Article View ...
Controversial Clean Water Restoration Act May Be Part of Omnibus Land-Grab Package
Last year, Senate Democrats sought to pass the Clean Water Restoration Act that would have expanded the federal government’s ability to regulate activities on “navigable waters,” as required under the Clean Water Act, to any activity on or in all waters in the U.S., including ponds, streams, and ditches. The ...
On New Spending Bill: All “Hell Breaking Loose” or “Robust Conversation”?
Either way, there's a lot to dislike about the "total mess" U.S. Senate omnibus 1,924-page federal government appropriations bill this entertaining Fox News story describes. According to the Senate Republican Policy Committee (RPC), the legislation includes: * Over $1.25 trillion to fund ObamaCare; * An extra $80.7 million for the ...
Obama Administration Digs in Heels on Energy Regulations as American People Hope Their Heat Will Last All Winter
Washington, D.C. – As winter weather already grips portions of the United States, the need for cheap and efficient power for heat and light is essential. Deneen Borelli, a fellow with the Project 21 black leadership network, points out that the Obama Administration's continued war on fossil fuels that is ...
Reid’s Lame-Duck Lands Bill Threatens Border Security
Washington, D.C. - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is fast-tracking over 100 federal land-acquisition bills for action during the lame-duck session, despite warnings from Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers that Reid's effort, if successful, would harm U.S. efforts to ...
EPA Regs Make it Harder to Stay Warm
Amanda Carey has an article in the Daily Caller today heavily covering Project 21's press release on the subject. Share Article | Permalink Email Article | Print Article View Printer Friendly Version Email Article to Friend Posts on this blog may be reproduced provided credit is given and a link ...
Black Conservatives Speak Out on ObamaCare Ruling
Washington, DC - A federal judge in Virginia today ruled that the Obamacare health care takeover is unconstitutional. Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are speaking out about this landmark ruling: Coby W. Dillard: "The ruling in Commonwealth v. Sebelius is a reminder that individual liberty -- the ...
Oral Contraceptives in Water Causing Dual-Sexed Fish?
National Center Senior Fellow Jeff Stier was quoted Friday in a WebMD article on a report in Environmental Science & Technology. As WebMD's Denise Mann reported, "Reports of intersex fish, including male fish with some female characteristics, led to widespread concerns about female hormones leaching into the nation’s water supply." ...
Julian Assange as Dr. Evil
"I'm prepared to launch the codes for the Dooms Day files unless you permit me to release Two Hundred and Fifty THOUSAND secret documents..." Matthew Ingram of Bloomberg BusinessWeek says, "If the WikiLeaks saga were a comic book, it would be starting to look a lot like the Justice League ...
Senior Fellow Jeff Stier on Cell Phone Safety in WebMD Article
National Center Senior Fellow Jeff Stier was quoted today in a WebMD article on the reliability of a study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health on the safety of maternal cell phone use on unborn children. Share Article | Permalink Email Article | Print Article View Printer Friendly ...
Project 21’s Deneen Borelli on “Fox and Friends” on Saturday Morning
Project 21 fellow Deneen Borelli is scheduled to appear on the Fox News Channel program “Fox and Friends” early on Saturday morning. Tune in shortly after 6:00AM eastern to see Deneen comment on the breaking day’s breaking news. Check your local listings for Fox News Channel on cable. Fox News ...
Black Conservatives Renew Call for Investigation of Obama Justice Department
Washington, D.C. – A new report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights regarding biases in civil rights enforcement at the U.S. Department of Justice is a step in the right direction, but members of the Project 21 black leadership network say a continued unwillingness by Obama Administration officials to ...
High On America’s Christmas List: Get the Federal Government out of Managing our Lands
Source: Kevin Eddy, Flickr.comAs the election showed, the American people would not approve Sen. Reid’s efforts to sneak through a massive, far-reaching omnibus package that would buy up and tie up millions of acres of federal lands. Sadly, the people have no say in the matter. The federal lands omnibus ...
Should Santa be the Next Target of the Tea Party Movement? A Holiday Top Ten List
Santa Claus polls well with Americans across the ideological spectrum, but there is an accumulating body of evidence that Santa does not support the Tea Party movement's pro-growth, limited-government, pro-freedom, family-friendly agenda. To follow are the top ten reasons the Tea Party movement shouldn't trust Santa Claus... 10. "Belt-tightening" ...
Our Government at Work
Two people were hospitalized and at least ten crashes took place on the Washington Beltway this morning after the Maryland Highway Administration spread slippery liquid over the busy highway in an effort to prevent the formation of ice. And yet, some people want mandatory government-run health care ...
Project 21’s Kevin Martin on the Censure of Charlie Rangel
After a vote of 333-79 in the U.S. House of Representatives to censure the veteran lawmaker, justice was served in the two-and-a-half year, $2 million ethics investigation of Representative Charles B. Rangel (D-NY). Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) then called Rangel to the well of the House, where ...
On Jobs Numbers, Robert Reich Comes Up Short
Robert Reich, the former Secretary of Labor, apparently doesn't know how the unemployed are counted. Writing in today's Salon, he says: "Over 15 million Americans were jobless in November. This doesn't include those who are working part-time but would prefer to work full time. Nor does it include a record ...
Anyone Think…
...it is a coincidence that President Obama scheduled a surprise visit to Afghanistan on the same day a very poor jobs report came out? Not me. Very few things will knock this kind of jobs report from the top of the news, but a president visiting a war zone does ...
Chimp Concedes: We Don’t Understand the Climate
Last March, in an effort to demonstrate something most of the delegates at the United Nations COP-16 global warming conference in Cancun ought to absorb -- namely, that the Earth's climate is complicated, and understanding it as yet remains beyond the abilities of even our best scientists -- the National ...
In Case You Missed It…
...ABC News will now be run by a member of the advisory board of the Soros-funded Center for Public Integrity (Christiane Amanpour, also of ABC, is on its board). How's that for objective journalism? Share Article | Permalink Email Article | Print Article View Printer Friendly Version Email Article to ...
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