An Interview Rep. Cohen Probably Regrets
During the State of Union speech, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn, age 63) tweeted a message to a 24-year-old woman that included the letters “ilu,” short for I love you. While in some of us (I plead guilty) it conjured up the joys of the Anthony Weiner scandal, it turns out ...
Government Excels At Creating Long Lines!
One part of President Obama’s State of the Union speech actually provoked some deep thinking in me: We should follow the example of a North Miami woman named Desiline Victor. When Desiline arrived at her polling place, she was told the wait to vote might be six hours. And as ...
Project 21’s Swimp on Obama Address: Nothing Surprising
Stacy Swimp, a member of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network, wasn’t impressed with President Obama’s State of the Union Address last night. In fact, he didn’t like it at all. Here is Stacy’s review of the speech: I have been asked repeatedly if there is anything about ...
White Smoke And A Potential Pope: Cardinal From Down Under Questions Climate Consensus, by Teresa Platt
White smoke will soon rise from the Vatican’s chimney (adding to the global inventory of greenhouse gases!), announcing that Roman Catholics have elected a new Pope - and it just might be the brave Cardinal from Down Under who questions the climate “consensus.” Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, is ...
ObamaCare and Virginia: Where’s The Lefty Outrage?
Yesterday the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that The General Assembly has now affirmed Gov. Bob McDonnell’s decision to order state agencies to cut back part-time employee hours to no more than 29 a week to avoid triggering a requirement under the federal law to provide health insurance. A Republican who is ...
Black Conservatives React to Obama Address
The national debt is well over $16.5 trillion. There are more than 47 million Americans now on food stamps. North Korea detonated another nuclear bomb yesterday. Close to half of the people who got free “Obamaphones” may not be eligible for the taxpayer-funded perk. Dogs may understand more about human ...
Project 21’s Charles Butler on Chicago Gun Violence: Blame Weak Politicians
On the 1/31/13 edition of “Real News,” Project 21 member Charles Butler tells Blaze TV’s Will Cain that politicians complaining about gun-related murders in Chicago are hypocrites who “know exactly what’s going on” in their crime-ridden communities but cannot accept that the city’s draconian anti-gun laws really make the situation ...
Allocating Electoral Votes By Congressional District is Worth a Serious Look
Writing over at the Outside the Beltway blog, Doug Mataconis has opined that "Allocating Electoral Votes By Congressional District Is A Bad Idea": For many years, and in many posts at my personal blog and here at OTB, I was a supporter of the District Method of allocating Electoral Votes ...
Want an Anti-Gun Violence Plan? I’ll Give You a Plan
A small group of former football players has put together (or perhaps just appeared in) what they call (or the politicians' offices exploiting their fame calls) a "public service announcement" on gun violence. In it, the football players "demand a plan" to end gun violence. Here's the entire ad: DEION ...
Insurers Operating At A Loss Is A Good Thing!
Yesterday the Kaiser Family Foundation released a white paper which largely conceded that premiums in the individual market will likely be rising under ObamaCare due to the new benefits insurance plans must provide and the sicker people the plans are forced to cover. However, the authors argued that there will ...
Biden Doesn’t Understand the Second Amendment, Says Project 21’s Stacy Washington
Although Vice President Joe Biden recently extolled the virtues of owning a shotgun instead of an automatic rifle such as an AR-15, Project 21 member Stacy Washington — guest-hosting on Blaze TV’s “Real News” on January 25 — explains that Biden’s logic shows he “does not know why we have ...
Lena’s Second Time Wasn’t a Charm
Actress Lena Dunham thrilled the liberal masses with a pre-2012 election video in which she double-entendred her way through a monologue likening her 2008 vote for Barack Obama with being deflowered. A blog recently called out Dunham — the creator of and actress in the critically-acclaimed HBO series “Girls” — ...
Two Very Different Authors Promote Fruits of Free Market Capitalism, by Teresa Platt
What does the owner of a chain of funky natural food stores, revered for the quality of its fruit and produce, have in common with the buttoned-up, multi-billionaire scion of a publishing empire? A lot, it seems. While, at first glance, they’re as different as apples and oranges, Whole Foods ...
Medicare Demonstration Projects: Hope Springs Eternal
In an effort to improve quality and reduce costs, Medicare conducts “demonstration projects.” These experiments in delivering medical care are tested in a few areas with the hope that, if they work, Medicare can apply them to the entire nation. There’s just one problem. As the Congressional Budget Office has ...
Project 21’s Derryck Green: Obama Birth Control Mandate Compromise Not Enough
Project 21 member Derryck Green says the recent minor compromise for religious institutions that the White House offered on its ObamaCare contraception mandate is “a step in the right direction” that must “go a lot further.” Derryck tells host Amy Holmes of the Blaze TV program “Real News” on February ...
Project 21’s LeBon: Americans Sickened by Increasing Food Regulation
A recent poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found that — for the first time ever — a majority of the American people consider the federal government as a threat to their personal rights. This seems to call into question the mandate that President ...
Horace Cooper Discusses Potential Abuse of “Black Box” Information in Private Cars
On the February 3, 2013 edition of “America’s News Headquarters” on the Fox News Channel, National Center adjunct fellow and Project 21 co-chairman Horace Cooper discusses the “staggering” amount of information newer automobiles gather about driver habits and travels. He also warns how proposed federal regulations to allow government access to that ...
Mike Schwartz, America Will Miss You
I was saddened to learn today, along with everyone here at the National Center for Public Policy Research who knew him, of the death of long-time conservative leader Mike Schwartz. Mike died of ALS on Saturday. He will be missed by thousands, though his work easily benefited hundreds of millions ...
The Unprosecutable Killing of a Wanted Child
Do "pro-choice" activists really want abortion to be safe, legal and rare (the last word implying that abortion is not morally preferable), as their PR machine would have us believe? Or are they, at best, ambivalent about the fact that abortion -- at the very least -- ends the development ...
Judge Rebukes Obama Administration … Again
It has been a tough week for the Obama Administration. Monday, a federal judge declared ObamaCare void since the individual mandate is unconstitutional; and Wednesday, another federal judge held Obama’s Interior Department in contempt of court. Last June, U.S. District Court Judge Martin Feldman issued an order lifting the Interior Department’s ban ...
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