ARCHIVE – 2013

Cupertino, CA / Washington, D.C. - At today's annual meeting of Apple shareholders in Cupertino, California, Horace Cooper of the National Center for Public Policy Research plans to ask Apple CEO Tim Cook if the computer giant will stand firm against the adoption of mandatory sustainability standards by trade associations ...

Most Likely Reason Is Complete Surrender to Leftist Demands CEO Implies Mainstream Conservative National Center for Public Policy Research is Extremist for Objecting to Deere's Surrender to Leftist Race Bullies John Deere CEO Was Questioned At Shareholder Meeting Over Decision to Shun Free-Market Advocate ALEC and for Helping to Label ...

How do you feel about an absentee landlord who accumulate acres and acres of productive land, then neglects it so it produces little and becomes so overgrown it’s a fire hazard to the neighbors? Not good, right? Well, that absentee landlord is you. As U.S. citizens, you now own over ...

Journalist Steven Brill has penned a 20,000-plus word article for TIME magazine examining the way hospitals charge for services.  The best way to describe the article is, “It’s well worth the time to read it until he starts talking about Medicare.” Brill exposes hospitals’ use of a “chargemaster,” a computer ...

Discussing problems regarding current adjudication of the almost 50-year-old Voting Rights Act, Project 21 co-chairman Horace Cooper says “it is the enforcement in the name of the preclearance standard that is the subject of the problem.” Specifically, Horace tells his fellow MSNBC panelists that “the problem has become that the ...

Supreme Court Considers Constitutionality of Old Law Requiring U.S. Department of Justice Pre-Approval for Voting Law Changes in All or Part of 16 States Based on Discrimination that Occurred in 1964 Conservative Group Says Eric Holder's DOJ is Now Misusing Section 5 to Fight Voter ID Washington, D.C. - Justices ...

Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act and the “preclearance” standards the law imposes on select states and localities will undergo constitutional scrutiny on February 27 as the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court hear arguments in the case of Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder. Project 21 member Coby Dillard ...

Explaining why it is now up to the U.S. Supreme Court to reform the Voting Rights Act in the case of Shelby County, Alabama v. Eric Holder, Project 21 co-chairman Horace Cooper easily dispels the rhetoric of the other MSNBC panelists — noting that the justices will be considering “specific ...

In a recent New Visions Commentary entitled “Politics and Pawns,” Project 21 black leadership network member Hughey Newsome suggested that President Obama callously used the heartfelt concerns of the American people – like pawns on a chessboard – in 2011 to advance his economic agenda.  Now, after his re-election, it ...

Project 21 member Niger Innis, whose family has suffered greatly from gun-related violence, decried liberal attempts to further regulate the ability of law-abiding Americans to own and use firearms. At the 2/22/13 “Black Leaders Speak Out on Gun Control” press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Niger ...

On February 18, Sunlight's Lindsay Young reported that Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) disclosures show that The National Center for Public Policy Research participated in luncheon briefings sponsored by the Gaddafi Charitable and Development Foundation in 2009. FARA records actually show that a lobbyist sent unsolicited invitations to us to ...

As noted in a previous blog post, most left-wing pundits were silent when Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia succeeded in getting part-time state workers limited to 29 hours per week so as to avoid giving them health insurance as required by ObamaCare.  That was a far cry from the ...

At the 2/22/13 “Black Leaders Speak Out on Gun Control” press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Project 21 member Stacy Swimp discusses the racist underpinnings of early gun control laws that were enforced in the Reconstruction-era American south. Stacy notes “there was a correlation, a direct ...

Where’s Sam Donaldson when we need him? A combination of new media (such as Facebook and Twitter) and the decline of old media (the Washington Post just laid off dozens of staff and is contemplating selling its headquarters) gives a savvy Obama White House the opportunity to promote its message ...

Grover Whitehurst, now a scholar at the Brookings Institution, has spent much of his career developing learning programs for young children.  He recently wrote two very good essays asking if we could be “hard headed” about Head Start and Universal Pre-K by admitting that the data shows that such programs have no lasting ...

National Public Radio (NPR) is featuring an excellent 3-part investigation into the Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) fisheries certification program.  Journalists Daniel Zwerdling and Margot Williams attempted to answer the loaded question: “Is Sustainable-Labeled Seafood Really Sustainable?” while green groups loudly accused the ultra-green MSC of greenwashing: But some environmental groups ...

An extremely unfortunate story comes out of the District of Columbia, where a 71-year-old man, Durand Ford, Sr., died. Mr. Ford had trouble breathing very early on January 1, and his family called an ambulance, but it took 33 minutes for an ambulance to arrive -- too long. It seems ...

As readers of this blog know, I sometimes go over to the Diversity Inc. magazine website for a look at the views of race-obsessed people. More often then not, I find something surprising, as in a column I read today that explains who is qualified to be called "African-American," and ...

While attending a health policy conference co-sponsored by the National Center and the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies, Risk Analysis Division director Jeff Stier was interviewed about harm reduction measures related to tobacco by the Israeli Broadcasting Authority’s radio news. Jeff points out there there are “alternative products” such as ...

Salon's running a breathless headline: "Republican Dark Money Group’s Corporate Sponsors Revealed." Sounds like a scoop exposing something nefarious, right? Maybe, but not in the way the left thinks. The left's "scoop" is that it got a list of who donated to an apparently 100% legal charitable group called the ...