Project 21’s Derryck Green on Obama’s Stagnant Jobless Numbers
In its monthly report on joblessness in the United States, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics announced on January 4 that the unemployment figures remained relatively stagnant. For December, the overall rate was announced to be 7.8 percent. That’s the same as for November — even though November was initially ...
LeBon Commentary on ObamaCare Intrusiveness Featured in Beck’s Blaze
A new commentary by Project 21 co-chair Cherylyn Harley LeBon, published on the Glenn Beck web site The Blaze draws from her own personal experience to show how the new personal information-gathering regime required by ObamaCare is intrusive and will likely only grow the nation’s already burgeoning nanny state. Chronicling ...
Bubble Trouble: Toast To A Very Happy – And Carbon-Neutralized – New Year! by Teresa Platt
On New Year’s Eve, corks popped, champagne flowed. Bubbles fizzed in soda pop, bubbled up in the beer. We raised our flutes to the light and studied the bubbles. Carbon dioxide. CO2. The bubbles that cause so much trouble in climate-related policy debates tickled our noses before returning to the ...
LeBon Commentary on ObamaCare Intrusiveness Featured in Beck’s Blaze
A new commentary by Project 21 co-chair Cherylyn Harley LeBon, published on the Glenn Beck web site The Blaze draws from her own personal experience to show how the new personal information-gathering regime required by ObamaCare is intrusive and will likely only grow the nation’s already burgeoning nanny state. Chronicling ...
How Far Left is the Far Left?
In an op-ed in Forbes today, I did something uncharacteristic: I said nice things about the First Lady’s Let’s Move campaign. Praising Ms. Obama from the right doesn’t come easy. Certainly, there are examples where she’s stumbled. But by and large, her approach and results deserve recognition. I did so because ...
Obama Administration Ignores Crimes Documented in New York Times
In an op-ed in Forbes.com today, Dr. Henry Miller of the Hoover Institution and I ask why the Obama Administration ignored a case of high profile vigilantism. The short answer: The criminal activity was done by the left. The longer answer: Last May 24, the New York Times did something extraordinary: On ...
Don’t Deflect the Blame, Stand up to Evil, by Stacy Washington
After the tragedy in Newton Connecticut, I had sudden and irrational thoughts about pulling my kids from the very school district where I serve on the school board. Even knowing all the procedures, safety measures and plan for such crises, the events in Newtown raise instinctive fears. I felt a ...
Top Ten Most Ridiculous Lawsuits of 2012
Faces of Lawsuit Abuse has released its annual top ten most ridiculous lawsuits of the past year, compiled by polling its visitors. Of its top ten, I would have voted for these as the top three: My #3: Michigan woman files $5 million suit for the leftover gas still in ...
All Politics Should Be Local, by Hughey Newsome
It is ironic that the city Barack Obama used to demonstrate his capabilities as a leader is now nearly out of cash. During the 2012 campaign, the President and his liberal supporters touted the auto bailout as having saved Detroit. The carmakers may still be alive, but the Motor City ...
What Should the Unemployed Do? by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.
In 1992, now Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke — one of the key players in current efforts to reinvigorate the American economy — collaborated with fellow economics professors Andrew Abel and Dean Croushore to author Macroeconomics. The book looks at fiscal policy from a "big picture" perspective. In that ...
The EPA’s Pebble Mine Assessment Puts Politics Above Sound Science
A regulatory battle underway in a remote area of Alaska could have profound implications for the rest of the country. Its outcome will determine whether the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) power can be used for political ends or whether the agency is limited by the laws passed by our ...
Jamie Foxx Unchained, by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.
"Django Unchained," a new movie from white director Quentin Tarantino, is making headlines for its violence and raw racial language. An action movie rooted in a raw portrayal of the slave era, its content is proving to be quite troublesome for many black Americans. Actor Jamie Foxx, the star of ...
A Change in Culture Doesn’t Mean Changing the Constitution, by Christopher Arps
It's obvious that President Obama wants to curtail our Second Amendment freedoms. It's now completely believable that Americans' constitutional right to own and use firearms might even be diminished with the stroke of Obama's autopen signature. American democracy is called a "grand experiment." It is not called this out of ...
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News of Interest: State of the Union Edition, February 13, 2013
Black Conservatives React to Obama's SOTU Address What does Barack Obama focus on in his State of the Union Address? Increased spending (call it investment). More taxes (call it revenue). Throw in a healthy dose of class warfare to ease it down the throats of the opposition and the American ...
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