Special Interests Want to Siphon Soda From Subsidized Diets
Washington, D.C. – Efforts by a special interest activist to restrict Americans receiving financial aid from using food subsidies for sodas are being criticized by Deneen Borelli of the Project 21 black leadership network as an attack on liberty and personal preference. "The willingness for progressives to leverage power over ...
Why Do Virginians Brag So Much?
In 2007, Virginia claimed America started with the settlement of Jamestown in 1607, but the first European settlement of what is now the U.S. was in Florida, and the first English settlement, in North Carolina After decades of wondering, I'm finally going to ask: Why are Virginians so insecure about ...
U.S. Pushing Montreal Protocol as an Easy-Win Climate Treaty to Ban Emissions
U.N. officials, desperate for a win at the sleeper climate talks in Cancun, are now proposing a means to cut greenhouse gas emissions that should wake us all up: the 1987 Montreal Protocol. This from Greenwire in yesterday’s New York Times: A proposal to curb some of the world’s most ...
NOAA Makes Monkey Out of Chimp; Agency Out-Forecasts Trained Chimpanzee – Who Knew?
Washington, DC - NOAA made a monkey out of Dr. James Hansimian, The National Center for Public Policy Research's trained hurricane-forecasting chimp, by producing a more accurate hurricane forecast for 2010. Today marks the official end of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season. While it is still possible that National Oceanic ...
There Is No Free Barbeque, by Greg Collins
There Is No Free Barbeque by Greg Collins Since when is barbeque a threat to civil rights? An Alexandria, Virginia attorney seems to think it is. Ed Ablard filed a lawsuit to halt the opening of a barbeque restaurant in the Washington, D.C. suburb where he lives and works. Ablard ...
Border Security Threatened by Lame-Duck Lands Bill, by Dana Joel Gattuso
With his time running out, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is expected to try to force a massive omnibus lands bill1 through Congress. If passed, the mega-package would buy up and tie up millions of acres of land in over 13 states -- and worse, increase the national security ...
The Stickshift Economy, by David Schifrin
The Stickshift Economy by David Schifrin I recently taught a friend how to drive a car with a manual transmission. As I was when I learned, my friend was eager, ambitious and just a little too cocky — like President Obama when he's handling the economy. Stick-shift lessons often start ...
OMG Parents, by Lisa Fritsch
OMG Parents by Lisa Fritsch (bio) Parents are now blaming the Internet for their lack of control over their children. Previous generations never had cell phones and computers, but kids were scamming their parents and bullying their classmates long before Google and Facebook existed. The consequences, in fact, were more ...
Bank Creation Key to Black Economic Development, by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.
It is readily acknowledged that black Americans have catching up to do when it comes to income and wealth. Many people say this predicament is related to racism and discrimination. Please, let's be objective enough to look at other factors. For some, the knee-jerk reaction is to promote creating ...
Administration Invokes “Yellow Peril” To Peddle Green Energy
In a recent address before the National Press Club in Washington, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said the United States is in clear danger of losing the "energy race" to China. "For centuries, America has led the world in innovation. Today, that leadership is at risk," he added. America, he went ...
Endangerment of States’ Rights: EPA’s Endangerment Rule Threatens States’ Sovereignty
In his post-midterm election press conference, President Barack Obama, with his tail firmly between his legs, admitted that he would scale back his unpopular domestic agenda. Obama acknowledged that the electorate has no interest in his cap-and-trade scheme, but warned that it's "just one way of skinning the cat."1 That's ...
Power of the Purse: Conservatives, Tea Party Activists Take on Liberals in Big Business
On Fox, Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli discussed a new National Center for Public Policy Research - FreedomWorks poll showing that conservatives and tea party activists are significantly less likely to want to patronize businesses that support or lobbying for the big government policies of the Obama Administration. The interview ...
FEP’s Tom Borelli on Bloomberg TV Friday Afternoon
Tom Borelli, director of the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project, is set to appear on Bloomberg TV on Friday, October 29 at approximately 4:30PM eastern. Tom will discuss how the tea party movement is as distrustful of big business as it is of politicians. In an article published by Bloomberg ...
U.S. Special Envoy Promising CO2 Emissions Cuts “Even Without Domestic Legislation”
As U.N. negotiators attempt to lower the expectations bar on the climate change talks that kick off today in Cancun, keep your eye on Todd Stern, the Obama Administration’s special climate change envoy and the U.S. government’s representative at the talks. Already he is promising U.N. officials that the U.S ...
A Soldier’s Take on Wikileaks
A guest post by Joe Roche The renewed assault from Wikileaks is going to have a very negative impact on our military, I fear, endangering soldiers' lives and making our missions dysfunctional. I have security clearances and worked with this information on deployments. Having access and disseminating it through the ...
Nationwide Poll of Conservative Voters Finds Big Business Should Fear Tea Party Activists
Washington, DC – Companies supporting President Obama's big-government policies risk suffering a dramatic drop in customer favorability, a newly-released nationwide research survey of conservative voters conducted by FreedomWorks and the National Center for Public Policy Research reveals. In one example of the research findings, General Electric and Johnson & Johnson ...
Massive Land-Grab Effort Urged by Democrats in Lame Duck
Source: iStockphoto.comJust two days ago I wrote about a possible vote during the lame-duck session to hike up funding levels under the “oil spill bill” for the federal land-grab program, the Land and Water Conservation Trust. Even more threatening are the efforts underway now among Congressional Democrats and Interior Secretary ...
Deneen Borelli to Appear on Hannity Friday
Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli is scheduled to appear on the Great American Panel of Sean Hannity's program on 9 PM ET on Friday, November 19. The show will be broadcast on the Fox News Channel. Share Article | Permalink Email Article | Print Article View Printer Friendly Version Email ...
Is the Justice Department Considering an Indictment of Charlie Rangel?
Just wondering, given that the House Ethics Committee has now formally concluded that Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) filed incorrect Congressional financial disclosure forms. Filing false financial disclosure forms was one of the charges when the Justice Department indicted the late Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK). (Yes, the DOJ later withdrew the ...
Coulter Statement Explained
John Stossel quoted me saying that Ann Coulter's words are "worse than damaging to conservatism -- they hurt the United States." Stossel gave the impression that I was referring to several un-PC statements Coulter made about domestic personalities. In that context, my comment made no sense at all. In fact, ...
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