Higher Costs, Less Choice… and Those Subsidies Might Not Help
National Center policy analyst Dr. David Hogberg was featured in a Fox News Channel report on 12/2/13 about the latest bad news regarding ObamaCare. In a segment featured on “Special Report,” it was noted that President Obama’s promise of cheaper health care is not quite as clear-cut as it seems ...
Project 21’s Swimp Warns Against False ObamaCare Prophets
On the 12/3/13 edition of “The Wilkow Majority” on SiriusXM satellite radio, Project 21 member Stacy Swimp said that the social agenda embedded in ObamaCare “fl[ies] in the face of our Judeo-Christian values,” and pastors who use their pulpits to promote the President’s health care takeover and encourage enrollment are ...
The Quality Of Exchange Plans Is Not Better
Contrary to the claims of the President, the quality of exchange insurance is not necessarily better. Yesterday at a Ways and Means Committee hearing, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute testified: …it’s now well established that more than 50 percent of the plans sold on ...
NOAA’s Hurricane Prediction Failures “Undermine the Agency’s Credibility”
NOAA — the federal weather forecasting agency — predicted between seven and 11 hurricanes for 2013, with three to six being major storms. There were actually two weak hurricanes. National Center for Public Policy Research President David Ridenour recently told Cox Media D.C. correspondent Jacqueline Fell that NOAA’s failure at ...
Obama, Black Political Establishment Criticized for Failure to Directly Address “Knockout Game” Violence
Washington, D.C. - In no uncertain terms, members of the Project 21 black leadership network are calling out many self-appointed black leaders, activists and journalists for thus far being unwilling to directly address the senseless "knockout game" violence terrorizing innocent Americans. Project 21 members are also thanking those others who ...
NOAA Should Get Out of the Hurricane Forecasting Business
We once hired a chimp to make a point about forecasts. Saturday marked the official end of the 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season and once again, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration proved itself utterly incapable of accurately forecasting hurricanes. It's time NOAA stop issuing hurricane forecasts. In May, the agency ...
It’s Time NOAA Got Out of the Hurricane Forecasting Business
Agency Consistently Shows It Possesses Neither Foresight Nor Hindsight 2013 Hurricane Season Might be the Weakest EVER, With 2 Hurricanes, None Major Yet NOAA Predicted 7-11 Hurricanes, 3-6 Major Washington, D.C. - The following is the statement of National Center for Public Policy Research President David A. Ridenour on the ...
ObamaCare Enrollment: The Mt. Everest Of Data Compilation
The political left is always telling us that “health care is different.” And seeing how hard it is for the Administration to tabulate enrollment numbers, one can’t help but think that the left might be right. For example, here is TPM Livewire: White House spokesman Jay Carney said Monday that ...
Project 21 Members Draw Line in Sand on “Knockout Game”
As New York City deals with what law enforcement officials believe to be the 10th recent local incidence of what is popularly known as the “knockout game,” Village Voice writer Roy Edroso downplays the assaults as “a small fraction of U.S. crime.” In the big picture, Edroso is madder at ...
Guess It Can’t Handle 50,001
Well, just tried to log on to Healthcare.gov and got this message: Hmm…this new-and-improved website looks an awful lot like the old clunker. I don’t know what the problem is, exactly, but here is my best guess: The administration insisted that with the improvements Healtcare.gov could “handle 50,000 users at any ...
ObamaCare Exchange Delays a Human Rights Violation?
The wait time to get on ObamaCare's online exchange is 60 days so far, about half the average wait time for an actual surgical procedure in Canada. And Canadian wait times are so long that the country's Supreme Court once deemed it a violation of human rights. So what does ...
Mr. President, Race Relations Suck, and You’re Not Helping, by Bob Parks
It was all supposed to be so different for race issues in America after Barack Obama became president. Then again — given the players who are still involved in the game — it's no wonder things aren't any better. Despite a rocky primary process in 2008 where things did get ...
ObamaCare Exchange Delays a Human Rights Violation?
The wait time to get on ObamaCare's online exchange is 60 days so far, about half the average wait time for an actual surgical procedure in Canada. And Canadian wait times are so long that the country's Supreme Court once deemed it a violation of human rights. So what does ...
Well-Conceived Plan Needed if Black-White Wealth Gap is to End, by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.
There is a black-white wealth gap. It's a quantifiable reality. Getting rid of it, however, may be an impractical, albeit sincere, goal. While this equality goal is not insurmountable, there is no precedent for it ever having been achieved -- and that raises serious challenges when developing a strategy for ...
Make More Money By Working Harder, by Darryn “Dutch” Martin
Making a so-called "living wage" is all the rage these days. Forget the minimum wage set by Congress. A living wage adds all sorts of political factors to the equation, usually lumped upon business owners just barely making a profit in this economy. It's class warfare at its worst. In ...
Regulatory Grinches Seek to Steal Christmas Spirit, by Archbishop Council Nedd II
Christmastime is supposed to be the season of giving. Why is so much being taken away from people? As a man of the cloth and a staunch defender of the Judeo-Christian faith that built our great nation, one thing that always bothers me is when atheists seek to deprive us ...
Faith Trumps Atheist Angst, by Derryck Green
This is the time of year when belligerent atheists corral fellow "freethinkers" together in an attempt to legally disrupt displays of the Nativity. Wherever these innocent — and usually welcomed — Christian religious displays are found, there's often a bitter atheist complaining to local authorities and the media because public ...
Inequitable Arguments about Income Inequality, by Hughey Newsome
Once again, liberals demand an increase in the minimum wage. President Obama said raising the minimum wage — the lowest amount, by law, most employers can pay — is a step in addressing rising income inequality, something he called "the defining challenge of our time." Data on income inequality does ...
Fox’s Neil Cavuto Gives President Obama a Piece of His Mind on ObamaCare
Too bad I don't mean that literally. Neil can spare it, the President needs it ...
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