Kanye West Apologizes for Calling Bush a Racist, Highlights Bigger Issue, by Devon Carlin
It may be too little and too late, but Kanye West is finally apologizing for calling George W. Bush a racist. Nonetheless, his realization could be a lesson for us all. After Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, celebrities offered their support to the affected areas with their "A Concert ...
The Economy: Out of the Ditch, But Against the Wall?
President Obama seems to love cars. When he’s not taking over the companies that make them or placing impossible fuel efficiency standards on them, he’s using cars as an analogy of his “success” in bring our nation’s economy back from the brink. Not everyone considers this a sound comparison. Kevin ...
The Economy: Out of the Ditch, But Against the Wall
President Obama seems to love cars. When he’s not taking over the companies that make them or placing impossible fuel efficiency standards on them, he’s using cars as an analogy of his “success” in bring our nation’s economy back from the brink. Not everyone considers this a sound comparison. Kevin ...
No Whites Need Apply: Project 21 Members Protest as Career Prosecutors Reveal the U.S. Justice Department is Refusing to Enforce Laws Protecting the Civil Rights of White Voters
Washington, D.C. – In light of the imminent release of a report on the Justice Department's apparent politicization of the case of alleged voting rights abuses by the New Black Panthers, members of the Project 21 black leadership network are commenting on revelations that federal civil rights enforcement is not ...
What To Do About the TSA?
In this segment of Sean Hannity's "Great American Panel," Project 21's Deneen Borelli says we should privatize the TSA and let the airlines handle their own security. Other panelists include Alicia Menendez of NDN and former Providence mayor and current talk show host Vincent "Buddy" Cianci. Share Article | Permalink ...
NAACP Chief Plays False Race Card Against Beck Supporters, by Deneen Borelli
With his knee-jerk criticism of those attending Glenn Beck's recent "Restoring Honor" rally, NAACP president Ben Jealous showed what his once-venerable group has become — a progressive front masquerading as a civil rights organization. In an interview with Eyeblast.tv, Jealous — who was demonstrating with Al Sharpton at a location ...
NAACP Tea Party Report Fudges Figures?
“Tea Party Nationalism,” the report created by the little-known Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights that the NAACP is distributing in its latest effort to play the race card against the grassroots tea party movement, is getting a fair amount of press. The real question is how many ...
NAACP Fails to Disappoint with the Failure of Its Latest Tea Party Attack
Washington, D.C. – As expected, the new report that the NAACP is touting as proof of the radicalism of the tea party movement is rife with innuendo, hearsay and conjecture. Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are highly critical of a study obviously devised with pre-ordained conclusions and ...
NAACP Mounts New Attempt to Discredit Tea Party Movement
Washington, D.C. – In what promises to be yet another attempt to play the race card against the tea party movement, the NAACP teamed up with the little-known Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights on a yet-to-be released study that alleges tea party ties to hate groups. Members ...
Big Business Look Out! Liberal CEOs are the Next Target for Tea Party Activists, says National Center for Public Policy Research
Experts at the National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project and Project 21 say the cover story of Bloomberg Businessweek magazine, "Why Business Doesn't Trust the Tea Party," explains why big business should be wary of the Tea Party movement. "Progressive CEOs who embrace inherently anti-capitalist policies are ...
Beware Federal Land Acquisition Efforts during Lame Duck
Source: iStockphoto.comLame-duck sessions can be a dangerous time for the very reason that key legislation can pass absent public accountability. Lawmakers who were not asked by voters to return to Washington after the first of the year—and there are a lot of them—may believe they have nothing to lose and ...
Google Techno Giant Tilts at Windmills
Was a time when building a high-tech superhighway of information—giving the world instant access to knowledge about almost anything—would earn you a good night’s sleep. Not anymore. Perhaps Google Inc. is tossing and turning over the amount of power it requires to run over a million servers. Perhaps the cyber ...
Obama’s Race Taunts Unsuited to the Presidency, Says Project 21 Chairman
Washington, D.C. – Mychal Massie, chairman of the Project 21 black leadership network, says President Obama's recent playing of the race card is inappropriate for a President and for someone who has publicly professed a desire for a post-racial America. "Obama's comments further calcify his commonality, lack of couth, lack ...
Big Apple Becoming Big Nanny; Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Paterson Want to Restrict Beverage Choices of Poor Citizens
Washington, D.C. – New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York Governor David Paterson are asking the federal government to deny New York City residents on food stamps the ability to use aid to buy certain beverages. Deneen Borelli, a fellow with the Project 21 black leadership network, sees ...
MSNBC Shake-Up Called for After Host’s Racial Remarks Against Black Conservative
Washington, D.C. – Despite MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell's alleged regrets about making a race-tinged remark about Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele, the nature of the offense and the double-standard regarding liberal hosts has a member of the Project 21 black leadership network calling for a shake-up at a network ...
President Obama Used Stimulus Funds to Reward Companies Pushing His Energy Policy
Washington, D.C. -- Today policy experts from the National Center for Public Policy Research are calling attention to corporate special interest groups that received taxpayer money through the stimulus thanks to the President and that also are lobbying for Obama's energy policy. "It's alarming that many of the remaining corporate ...
Wind Energy – A Booming Nuisance?
It seems that wind turbines are not the harmonious alternative to fossil fuels that liberal environmentalists claim. Instead, wind turbines are eyesores that kill birds, create massive noise, and diminish property values. The New York Times reports that some residents of Vinalhaven, Maine learned that lesson the hard way.Source: istockphoto ...
Is Black Support for Obama Racist? by Jerome Hudson
Is Black Support for Obama Racist? by Jerome Hudson (bio) With poverty at an all-time high, daunting black unemployment levels and Obamacare threatening black babies, black support for Barack Obama remains surprisingly strong. Why? Blacks are not uniformly as radical as Obama. So why do 91 percent of blacks still ...
Quote of Note
"People don't really expect high character from their political figures anymore. 'Congressman Smith cheated on his wife.' That's her problem. Cut my taxes." Peggy Noonan, "The Twister of 2010 - WSJ.com," Wall Street Journal, October 1, 2010 ...
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