ARCHIVE – 2012

Stalin is Innocent?

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"I have yet to find one crime; yet to find one crime, that Stalin committed." Your tax dollars at work at New Jersey's Montclair State University, where Professor Grover Furr punctuates this harmful and absurd theory by yelling "bulls**t" at students. Would we be sanguine if a tax-supported institution taught ...

Bloomberg’s Food Donation Ban Still in Place

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Volunteers who want to donate food to a New York City-run homeless shelter will be turned away. As I wrote in the New York Post in March, The Bloomberg administration is now taking the term “food police” to new depths, blocking food donations to all government-run facilities that serve the ...

Supreme Court to Examine Constitutionality of Dysfunctional Section of Voting Rights Act

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Black Conservatives Welcome Bringing Nearly 50-Year-Old Law Based on 50-Year-Old Presumptions Into the 21st Century Project 21 Black Leadership Network Joined Court Brief Supporting Challenge Washington, D.C. - By agreeing today to examine the constitutionality of an outdated portion of the Voting Rights Act, the U.S. Supreme Court is stepping ...

Oceans Refuse To Cooperate: Global “Warming” (1.3ºF over 140 years) “On Pause,” by Teresa Platt

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The Daily Mail’s David Rose reported (Oct. 13, 2012) that the United Kingdom’s National Weather Service, the Met Office, had very quietly posted to its website proof that “global warming stopped 16 years ago.” Mr. Rose explained: The new data, compiled from more than 3,000 measuring points on land and ...

Black Conservatives Prepare for the Next Four Years

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Around 10 million fewer people voted for Barack Obama’s re-election than voted for him four years ago.  While Obama received the votes of approximately half of the 2012 electorate, an exit poll found that more than half of those surveyed still feel that the America he led for the last four ...

Bureaucratic Bottlenecks Leave People Cold, by Teresa Platt

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Japan’s March 11, 2011 8.9 earthquake triggered a tsunami which, in turn, devastated coastal towns, tore down power lines, damaged nuclear power facilities, and cracked the Ishibuchi dam. Beyond extensive damage to property and the environment, the harm to Japan’s energy grid was severe.  The closure of just the Fukushima ...

On the Debt Limit, Obama Administration Games Continue

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An article by Terry Jeffrey published yesterday by CNSNews.com gives a grim hint about a second term Obama Administration's willingness to tackle our federal debt problems in a grownup way. Jeffrey points out that two Senators, Orrin Hatch (Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee) and Jeff Sessions (Ranking Member ...

Liberals Keep Pushing Losing Arguments Against Voter ID

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Now We're Told that Voter ID Slows Election Result Tabulations Washington, D.C. - In a new National Policy Analysis paper, "Voter ID Opponents' Latest Spurious Claim: Voter ID Allegedly Slows Election Tabulations," National Center for Public Policy Research Adjunct Fellow Horace Cooper is responding to the latest charge from opponents ...

If You Want to Learn About Election Cheating…

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Sorry, I can't tell you who is cheating right now and where, though if news reports are any guide, we all have good reason to suspect voter fraud has once again reared its corrupt little head in election 2012. In preparation for the days ahead, when this election is over ...

Voter Fraud is a Real Threat to Every Citizen’s Constitutional Rights

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Washington, D.C. - In a just-released paper analyzing the Brennan Center for Justice's role in minimizing the importance of election fraud across the nation, National Center for Public Policy Research Adjunct Fellow Horace Cooper concludes that the Brennan Center hasn't been telling the full story. "Voter fraud and election mishaps ...

Project 21’s Green Says Jobs Report Proves Failed Obama Policies

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Last Friday morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its jobs and unemployment report for the month of October. A bad report, it noted that the closely-watched U-3 report of total unemployment rose to 7.9 percent.  This confirmed to many Americans already critical of President Obama’s policies what they had ...

New Yorkers Rally To Pass Gas, by Teresa Platt

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Upstate New York is a land of bucolic hillsides, where farmers wake up to find - as I did when I recently visited friends there - that the horse has escaped from the corral and is, once again, eating the potted plants on the patio. This beautiful land is also ...

PBS, Puppet Supporters Pound Pavement in D.C.

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Begging in public parks is OK if it’s for public TV. Honest! Literally hundreds of people showed up to the Million Puppet March in Washington, D.C. on November 3. Like many liberal events, there were the initial problems with semantics.  It was originally called the Million Muppet March, but was ...

Voter ID Critics Barking Up the Wrong Tree in the Peach State

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As the elections approach, the fraud enablers over at the Brennan Center for Justice appear to be celebrating the success of their race mongering campaign against commonsense and overwhelmingly popular polling place protections. Even though they misguidedly think that they are protecting those they perceive to be meek, there is ...

The Brennan Center is Wrong: Voter Fraud is a Real Threat to Every Citizen’s Constitutional Rights

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The Brennan Center for Justice has been the go-to resource for many opponents of commonsense anti-voter fraud efforts such as voter ID. The essence of the Brennan Center's argument against voter ID is that that voter fraud isn't a real problem, as it happens so infrequently that it isn't a ...

Voter ID Opponents’ Latest Spurious Claim: Voter ID Allegedly Slows Election Tabulations

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Critics of commonsense anti-fraud measures such as voter ID continue to engage in desperate efforts to change public opinion on the issue, racing from one complaint to another. They've claimed that requiring voters to present identification is a form of voter suppression1, that voter fraud is rare2 and now, a ...

Values, Beliefs Lost on Election Day, by Archbishop Council Nedd II

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In post-election post-mortem mode, many so-called Christian conservatives wonder why President Obama won so decisively. They similarly scratch their heads over same-sex marriage victories in Maryland and Maine and defeated pro-life candidates in states once thought to be reliably conservative. I contend everyone has lost focus on the modern relationship ...

An Ode To The Role Of Big Government, by Elaina F. George, MD

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In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, a vision of the federal government as our savior is being perpetuated by the media and the left. This romanticized vision of the benefits of an ever-expanding government assuming command of everything — from disaster relief to managing our waistlines to promoting breastfeeding to ...

Now or Never for Black Homeownership, by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.

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Homeownership rates have declined in America since the start of the economic crisis in 2008. Nowhere has the homeownership decline been more acute than in the black community. In 2004, 49.1 percent of black households owned their own home. In 2011, that number fell sharply to 44.9 percent. This may ...

Obama Won… Don’t Complain, by Bob Parks

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Obama's victory means four more years with no hope or change. When I think about what the future offers, it reminds me of the last thing I said during my closing remarks at a 2008 debate for state representative in Massachusetts. I said: "If you like the way things are, ...

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