Democrats Made Their Individual Mandate Bed; Now They Can Lie in It
If a public policy requires quite a few substantial exceptions and alterations to get it to work, that’s usually a clue that it wasn’t a good policy to begin with. A case in point is ObamaCare’s individual mandate. The Internal Revenue Service has already decided to waive late penalties for ...
Federal Government’s Dietary Guidelines Should Not Be Distorted By Environmental Activism
Climate Change Activists Have Been Pushing to Influence Report Out Today Dietary Guidelines Should Promote Health and Disease Risk Reduction, Not Focus on Promoting a Smaller Carbon Footprint in Food Production, Expert Says New York, NY / Washington, D.C. - The Obama Administration's Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human ...
TV Host Mobilizes Viewers to Fight for National Center in Campaign for Political Freedom at Costco
Last week, National Center Free Enterprise Project Director Justin Danhof told One America News Network host Rick Amato about how Costco management is effectively creating an atmosphere that allows for the potential political persecution of its employees in the workplace. Since then Amato’s outrage for the callousness of the retail ...
Major Online Retailer Offers 10 Percent Off for Customers Typing “Liberty” at Checkout
The National Center's Free Enterprise Project fights liberalism in America's corporate boardrooms, and has found plenty of it to fight. As a result, I may be more sensitive than most when a company appears to be signaling that it appreciates the key founding principles of our nation, but I was ...
TV Host Amato Takes Up National Center Cause, to Announce Campaign Against Costco Tuesday Night
After his interview with the National Center’s Justin Danhof, nationally-seen television talk show host Rick Amato wants his viewers to help him take on retail giant Costco for actively fighting against the political freedoms of its employees. Watch on this coming Tuesday to see Amato when he brings Justin back ...
Fiscal Literacy Needed to Avoid Poverty Traps, by Fred Banyon
In Arizona, the governor recently signed legislation requiring that high school students pass a civics exam before they graduate. It's the same test the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service gives to prospective citizens. As one state senator explained, "a minimal understanding of American civics is of real value." Don't stop ...
Obama Displays His Ignorance While Getting on High Horse
President Obama continues to display how little he really knows. After demonstrating his historical illiteracy last week by mouthing off about the Crusades, yesterday he upped the ignorance ante by attacking office supply company Staples. According to Obama, Staples is limiting the hours its employees work to avoid violating the ...
ObamaCare: Patients Pay the Cost, Social Engineers Do Not
Aren’t social engineers great? They get to test their ideas without having to pay the cost if those ideas fail. Indeed, to the extent that the ideas are tested on us, we are the ones who suffer any hardship as a result. Nice work if you can get it. From ...
Why Do We Have a Lower Ethical Standard for Presidents Than for News Anchors?
Why do we have a lower standard for presidents than for nightly news anchors? Brian Williams has just lost his job for six months because he lied to the American people, but compared to Barack Obama, he's a mere piker. How often have we heard this president and his administration ...
Gianno Caldwell’s Project 21 Media Debut Tackles Ukraine, ISIS and Other Foreign Policy Issues – and Brian Williams
“Brian Williams’ career at NBC is dead,” said Project 21 member Gianno Caldwell, “but it’s alive and well if he wants a job at TMZ.” Gianno made a big splash during his first appearance on the One America News Network and first live media for Project 21! On the 2/9/15 ...
Message to Jesse Jackson: Stop Lying About the Voting Rights Act
Jesse Jackson Wrong to Claim U.S. Supreme Court Made Voting Rights Act "Null and Void" "Resorting to Hyperbole… Unnecessarily Divides People," Says Project 21's Cherylyn Harley LeBon Washington, D.C. - Jesse Jackson's false claim that a 2013 U.S. Supreme Court decision made the 1965 Voting Rights Act "null and void" ...
Behind the Gun, Another Community Activist Gains Clarity regarding Police Procedures
Another community activist and vocal critic of the police has gained a new perspective on police procedures after spending time in a cop’s shoes. Members of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network, once again, are not surprised. This time, Quanell X, the leader of the New Black Panther ...
About Those Jobs Numbers for January: Obama?s Economic Bravado Relies on Defining down Success
With every new month comes the federal government’s assessment and report on the previous month’s jobless numbers. Project 21 member Derryck Green uses this first-Friday announcement to comment on the state of the economy in general and employment in particular under President Barack Obama’s stewardship. This month, on the heels ...
NBC’s Brian Williams Scandal Could Have Been Avoided
Comcast Hired Outside Legal Counsel to Help it Fight Shareholder Proposal that Merely Asked Comcast to Review Its Accuracy Policies U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Ruled Shareholders May Not Ask Management of Public Companies to Make Certain Employees Are Making Accurate Public Statements "It seems illogical for the federal government ...
Three Ways Consumers Could Pay Exorbitantly Higher Premiums on the ObamaCare Exchanges in 2015
Executive Summary Because of the way the subsidy mechanism of the ObamaCare exchanges functions, many exchange consumers who qualify for subsidies could end up paying exorbitantly higher premiums this year or be faced with scrambling to find a new policy that is cheaper. Even if they find a policy that ...
ObamaCare Customers Should Beware of Higher Prices
Some ObamaCare Premium Increases will be Over $1,000 Annually, New Study Says Washington, D.C. - Consumers who in 2015 keep the same plans they purchased for 2014 on the ObamaCare exchanges could be in for a big shock, warns Dr. David Hogberg, senior fellow at the National Center for Public ...
New Study: Three Ways Consumers Could Pay Exorbitantly Higher Premiums on the ObamaCare Exchanges in 2015
Back in September, the Indiana Business Journal noted that, although some new insurers were offering lower-priced plans on Indiana’s ObamaCare exchanges, consumers wouldn’t necessarily save money: ”Because of wrinkles in how Obamacare’s generous tax subsidies are calculated, the entrance of new insurers in the Indiana market will likely push down the ...
Washington State Considers Criminalizing Holding Whales and Dolphins in Aquariums
Strategy Follows PETA's Failed Litigation Campaign to Free Whales from "Bondage" New York, NY / Washington, D.C. - Washington state Senator Kevin Ranker introduced a bill last week to make it a crime, punishable by up to 6 months in jail and a $100,000 fine, to hold whales, dolphins or ...
IRS Gives ObamaCare Tax Delinquents Special Treatment
The Administration is granting more special privileges under the banner of ObamaCare. This time, it’s for people who owe taxes on the subsidy they received on the exchanges for 2014. From Kaiser Health News: Consumers who received too much in federal tax credits when buying insurance on the health law’s marketplaces ...
Leading Free Market Group Asks Dozens of Major American Companies to Protect Workers’ Right to Freely Engage in Political and Civic Activities
National Center for Public Policy Research's Employee Conscience Protection Project Warns: Millions of Americans Potentially Subject to Workplace Discipline for Private Political Actions and Beliefs In Response, Credit Card Leader Visa Takes Steps to Protect Its Workforce From Political Discrimination While Wholesale Giant Costco Resists Employee Protections Washington, D.C. - ...
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