CoOportunity Health: The Solyndra of ObamaCare
Under ObamaCare, health Co-Ops—non-profits that provide insurance—are allowed to receive federal grant money to start up operations in the ObamaCare exchanges. There are 23 such Co-Ops. CoOportunity Health, which serves Iowa and Nebraska, was the first one to collapse. The Iowa State Insurance Commissioner, Nick Gerhart, took over the failing ...
Illegal Immigration Has Black Americans “Struggling for Our Very Lives”
With access to jobs, housing, education and health care all at risk for black Americans because of the influx of illegal immigrants into the United States, Project 21 member Ted Hayes said blacks are “struggling for our very lives.” As an advocate for the homeless in Los Angeles, Ted explained ...
“Government Overreach” Lands Parents in Hot Water for Letting Kids Walk to Park Alone
When police and social workers were called in to essentially check on the fitness of parents in a Washington, D.C. suburb because they had let their kids walk to and from a park alone, it set off a national discussion on the concept of “free-range parenting.” For anyone who grew ...
Project 21’s Emmett an Early Critic of Obama’s “Free” Community College Plan
National Center staff member Bethany Whitlock helped write this blog post. As part of his State of the Union address, President Obama proposed a new initiative to offer young Americans essentially free community college education. Then, in his proposed tax plan that was released shortly thereafter, it was discovered there ...
HealthCare.Gov: Incompetence on a Massive Scale
Last Friday, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Health and Human Services released its report on what went wrong with HealthCare.gov in 2013. (“You would have had a lot less to read if they’d just focused on what didn’t go wrong!” — the Wife.) Anyway, the ...
Obama Should Work with the New Congress to Reinstate the Clinton-GOP Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996, by Gianno Caldwell
After 50 years of America's "War on Poverty" yielding little progress at much expense, how can we more effectively provide opportunity for our least fortunate brothers and sisters? In 1996, with a divided government similar to what we have now, a Republican Congress and President Bill Clinton created and signed ...
Visa, Inc. Leaders Balk at Request to Support Free and Open Internet
Leading Free Market Organization Questions Visa About Reports Credit Card Giant is Supporting Obama Plans for Increased Federal Regulation of the Internet National Center for Public Policy Research Warns: Obama Administration Efforts to Reclassify Broadband Bad for Innovation, Consumers and Competition Foster City, CA - At today's annual meeting of ...
Governor John Kasich (R-OH) Should Stop Insisting Christians Must Support ObamaCare’s Medicaid Expansion
New Parody Exposes Kasich's Absurdity Christian Charity Is Voluntary; Medicaid Expansion Is Government Force Is Kasich Aware "How Lousy Medicaid Is"? Washington, D.C. - "If John Kasich actually thinks people will suffer eternal damnation for not supporting ObamaCare's Medicaid expansion, then he's not fit to be dog catcher, let alone ...
Parody: Why All Good Christians Must Support ObamaCare’s Medicaid Expansion
People who do not support ObamaCare’s Medicaid expansion aren’t very good Christians. So says Ohio Governor John Kasich. Last Tuesday, when asked about his expansion of Medicaid, Kasich replied, “Now, if you ever read Matthew 25, I think, ‘I wanna feed the hungry and clothe the naked,’ and I have ...
Medicaid Money Laundering–It’s Perfectly Legal!
Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam is trying to build support for his Medicaid expansion plan. One method he’s proposing is a long-running scam called “hospital assessment fees.” To understand how these fees work, it’s important to know first that Medicaid is a matching program. For every dollar a state spends on ...
Project 21 Membership Tackles Tough Middle East, Islam Issues
While members of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network are popular for their interviews about race relations, the diverse experiences and skills that Project 21 members bring to the table make them qualified to speak on a broad array of issues. One of these issue areas happens to ...
Black Conservatives Say Newest Drive for Redskins Name Change Fouls Free Speech
While most other football fans are fixated on deflated game balls right now, there’s a small but allegedly influential special interest group hard at work trying to lend its credibility to an ongoing pressure campaign to get the Washington Redskins to change its name. But has the Fritz Pollard Alliance ...
Project 21 Members Tear Down Leftist Infrastructure Deception
National Center staff member Bethany Whitlock wrote this blog post. If the current price of gasoline -- due largely to new extraction on privately-owned land -- is any indication, American innovation is a clear success story. The private sector, so despised by big-government proponents, is proving its worth. Bishop Council ...
Post Coverage of March for Life Suggests Liberal Newsroom Is Reasserting Control
Almost two years ago, I took the leadership of the then-publicly-traded Washington Post Company to task for their coverage of the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. Representing the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project and using the shares of Accuracy in Media at the company’s 2012 shareholder meeting, I ...
Thomas Sowell: Welfare, Not Slavery Or Racism, Cause Of Racial Inequality
The 1st edition of Thomas Sowell’s Basic Economics, published back in 2000, came in at 366 pages. The book has proven so popular that the 5th edition, released late last year, has ballooned to 689 pages. The final part of my recent interview with Sowell appears at FrontPage Magazine. (Click on these links for ...
Project 21’s Gardner Answers the Question: “What Would Martin Luther King, Jr. Say?”
National Center staff member Bethany Whitlock wrote this blog post. With the recent national observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and with all of the events that have strained race relations over the past year, many people are probably asking the question: “What would MLK say?” This year, his ...
Thomas Sowell: ‘Resentment’ of America Fueling Obama Amnesty
Today, FrontPage Magazine has published part 2 of my three-part interview with economist and social philosopher Thomas Sowell. (For part 1, go here.)This portion covers more on civil rights, illegal immigration, the rule of law and the so-called “War on Women.” Below is an excerpt: David Hogberg: Now, with President Obama’s recent executive ...
ObamaCare’s ‘Success’ Is One of Making Americans More Dependent on Government
During last night’s State of the Union speech, President Obama made one grandiose claim regarding ObamaCare: “And in the past year alone, about ten million uninsured Americans finally gained the security of health coverage.” The claim is based on an article in the New England Journal of Medicine that uses ...
Thomas Sowell: Unrest Suits Sharpton’s ‘Income Interests’
FrontPage Magazine has published part 1 of my three-part interview with economist Thomas Sowell, who has just released the 5th edition of his best-selling book Basic Economics. The interview covers not only his new book, but also civil rights, race hustlers and immigration. Here is a snippet: David Hogberg: What do ...
Black Conservatives Critique President Obama’s State of the Union Address
Black Conservatives Critique President Obama's State of the Union Address Washington, D.C. - Commenting on President Barack Obama's State of the Union address tonight, members of the Project 21 black leadership network saw a presidency lacking new ideas that suggested Obama may be "running out the clock" on his presidency ...
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