Congress Should Shut Off the Wind Subsidy America Can’t Afford and the Industry Doesn’t Even Need, Energy Expert Says
Washington, D.C. - The Production Tax Credit (PTC) should be allowed to expire not only because it will cost taxpayers billions of dollars that they can't afford, but because the wind energy industry doesn't need it. That's a conclusion of Dr. Bonner Cohen, Senior Fellow of The National Center for ...
Project 21’s Nedd Talks Upcoming Supreme Court Cases on Gay Marriage
On Friday, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court announced they will hear two cases expected to bring some definitive legal closure to key elements in the debate over enforcing marriage as exclusively between a man and a woman. Both cases involve constitutional challenges to popularly-legislated endorsements of traditional marriage ...
Privacy and Constitutional Issues at Play as Feds Move to Require Black Boxes in Cars, Says National Center Analyst
The federal government's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is soon expected to announce that it will begin requiring that all new U.S. cars and light trucks be equipped with "data recorders" -- better known as "black boxes." Ford, GM, Toyota and Mazda are among the manufacturers who already have such ...
Project 21’s Stacy Swimp Gets Cell Phone Smashed by Union Protesters in Lansing, But Lays Seeds for Growth with Rank-and-File
Project 21's Stacy Swimp had a run-in with labor union protestors yesterday that left him with a smashed cell phone, but also with optimism about the ability of conservatives to reach rank-and-file union members with our message. The scene was Lansing, Michigan, where the state legislature was to vote on ...
In Unemployment Figures, Project 21’s Green Thinks Americans Got What They Wanted
Project 21 member Derryck Green, doesn’t think there’s a lot to celebrate regarding today’s minimal reported gains in the national employment numbers. Derryck says: Our nation’s economic situation continues to worsen under Barack Obama’s leadership. Is that his fault, or the fault of the American people? And, at this point, ...
The Grouse Wars: Spotted Owls of the Prairie States Threaten Energy Production
The federal government has announced it’s opening 430 square miles (278,000 acres) in the Atlantic to wind development: areas 10 miles off Rhode Island in state waters and, in federal waters, areas for lease in Nantucket Sound (off Cape Cod, Massachusetts) and 23 miles off Southern Virginia’s shore. These wind ...
Conservative Activists to Challenge Zales Over Anti-American, Anti-Jobs Positions
Jeweler to Face Questions Over Boycott of American Gold and Other Precious Metals from Alaska's Pebble Mine Irving, TX / Washington, D.C. - At today's annual meeting of Zales shareholders in Irving, Texas, National Center for Public Policy Research Free Enterprise Project Director Justin Danhof, Esq. plans to question company ...
Zales Executives Claim Ignorance on Jobs-Killing Pledge Despite Potential to Harm American Workers, American Security and National Sovereignty
Jeweler Will "Look Into" Its Past Endorsement of Radical Environmental Boycott of American Gold and Other Precious Metals from Alaska's Pebble Mine Irving, TX / Washington, D.C. - Today, at the Zales annual meeting of shareholders in Irving, Texas, National Center for Public Policy Research Free Enterprise Project Director Justin ...
National Center for Public Policy Research Chairman Amy Ridenour Praises Outgoing Heritage Foundation President Dr. Ed Feulner, Congratulates Senator Jim DeMint
Washington, D.C. - National Center for Public Policy Research Chairman Amy Ridenour made the following comments regarding the announcement by the Heritage Foundation today that Senator Jim DeMint will succeed Dr. Ed Feulner as president: The National Center for Public Policy Research is pleased to join with many other members ...
Why Can Costas Speak, But Not Limbaugh?
Salon magazine this afternoon is asking the silly question, Why can Limbaugh speak, but not Costas? It is Rush Limbaugh who is banned from speaking, not Bob Costas. Salon’s David Sirota has a long introduction to his argument (which you can read here) that boils down to this: In concrete ...
Chemical Fight Offers Early Look at Obama’s Second-Term EPA
In an op-ed in today’s Washington Examiner, I explain how the second Obama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency will seek to use sound bites, rather than sound science, to pursue an agenda of more excessive and more costly regulation. And when possible, they’ll try to do it below the radar. I ...
Conservation Easements and the Anti-Farm Farm Bill, by Dana J. Gattuso
The September 30th deadline has come and gone, and Congress has not passed a new farm bill. And while farm special interests bemoan that Congress fiddled while Rome burns, the outcome is actually good for American taxpayers who would have funded a bloated, subsidy-stuffed trillion dollar farm bill. Even the ...
Welcome to the Doctor’s Office — Your Papers Please, by Cherylyn Harley LeBon
I recently took my daughter to our pediatric ophthalmologist — a physician she has seen for several years, and with whom we have a very good relationship. At this appointment, however, the receptionist gave me three new forms to fill out. These forms were not the usual update forms. This ...
Obama, Sharpton and Black America’s Downward Spiral, by Darryn “Dutch” Martin
As a conservative, President Barack Obama's reelection was one of the most disappointing experiences of my life. As a black American, my sorrow was only amplified. Just look at President Obama's economic track record. Look at the unemployment rate during Obama's first term. Throughout his first four years as the ...
Saving Sarah From the Egyptian Salafis, by Archbishop Council Nedd II & Deacon J.T. Griffin
Almost six months into the reign of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, many people in the West and even Egypt lament the "Arab Spring" overthrow of long-time dictator Hosni Mubarak. America and Mubarak shared a concern for anti-Western Muslim fundamentalists seeking to turn Egypt into an Islamic state. Mubarak's treatment of ...
Jovan, Jason and Jumping to Conclusions, by Derryck Green
Jason Whitlock started it, and Jason Whitlock can end it. On December 1, the Fox Sports columnist penned a column about what happened earlier that morning when Jovan Belcher — the starting linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs — murdered his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins (the mother of his three-month-old daughter), ...
The Wind Production Tax Credit: Corporate Welfare at its Worst
Americans will soon learn whether the political class in Washington is serious about cleaning up the dirty acts of favoritism and cronyism that are business as usual in the nation's capital. From loan guarantees for the well-connected to subsidies for the non-competitive, Washington specializes in feathering the nests of those ...
Life, Liberty and Happiness, by Archbishop Council Nedd II
In an increasingly secular America — where moral absolutes have vanished — it is not surprising that same-sex marriage referendums recently passed in Maryland, Washington and Maine. After all, noted theologian N.T. Wright said, "by itself, human reason can no more be guaranteed to tell us which way to go ...
Rahm Emanuel: He’s Got Moves Like Bloomberg
At the same time as a high-end shopping mall vending machine in Burbank, California is beginning to dispense caviar, truffles and escargot, city employees in Chicago are looking at the possibilities of finding kale smoothies and organic, gluten-free soy crackers in their vending machines. It’s all part of Mayor Rahm ...
2012 Hurricane Season Ends: NOAA Prediction WRONG AGAIN!
Worse: FOIA Documents Revealed Today for the First Time Suggest NOAA May Have Cheated to Win "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader" Hurricane Forecast "Bet" Against Elementary School Students in 2011 Washington, D.C. - The 2012 hurricane season officially ends today with yet another loss for the federal government's ...
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