Leading Good Governance Group Blasts Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson for Calling Religious Liberty Law “Madness”
National Center for Public Policy Research Confronts Marriott CEO for Comments Against Freedom of Faith at Annual Meeting of Marriott Investors Hypocrisy Abounds: Sorenson and other Corporate Leaders Such as Apple's Tim Cook Blast Indiana's Religious Freedom Efforts While Making Money in Countries Criminalizing Homosexuality Corporate Leaders Join With Liberal ...
Are More Young and Healthy People Signing up for ObamaCare? No.
I got a call from One News Now the other day asking me if more young and healthy people, particularly those ages 18 to 34 who are often known as “young invincibles”, were signing up for ObamaCare. What prompted the question was this piece by Bruce Japsen at Forbes: As health insurance ...
Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians
Two months from today, the National Center for Public Policy Research will be releasing my book, Medicare’s Victims: How the U.S. Government’s Largest Health Care Program Harms Patients and Impairs Physicians. It is currently available for pre-order at Amazon. In 35 words or less, the book examines patients and physicians ...
National Center for Public Policy Research Urges Coca-Cola to Conduct Public Education Campaign About Safety of GMOs
As Celebrities Such as Dr. Oz and Self-Appointed Food Police Such as the "Food Babe" Sow Discord over GMOs, Science Shows GMOs are Safe Big Business Has Moral Obligation to Take Truth to the Public Coca-Cola CEO Recognizes and Applauds National Center's Work to Bring Sound Science to GMO Debate ...
Surprise! ObamaCare Medicaid Expansion Leads to Increase in ER Visits
That title of this blog post, of course, is intended to be sarcasm. That an expansion of Medicaid would lead to a rise in emergency room (ER) visits is about as unexpected as looking to the east sometime early in the morning and seeing the sun. ERs have long been ...
Goal: Reduce Harm from Tobacco Use; Jeff Stier to Speak at Smoke-Free Alternatives Trade Association 2015 Annual Conference
Washington, D.C. - Jeff Stier, senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research, will give a talk on "Making Policy Decisions" at the Smoke-Free Alternatives Trade Association's (SFATA) 2015 annual conference, "Revolution to Evolution: Next Steps for the Vapor Industry," being held at the Hilton Orrington Evanston in ...
A Woman on the $20 Bill? Make Her an Entrepreneur
There's a campaign underway to remove President Andrew Jackson's face from the $20 bill and replace it with a woman as a way of "promoting gender equality." The group Women on 20s wants Jackson's portrait removed in time for the 2020 centennial of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the ...
Project 21 Members Speak Out on Baltimore Riots
Beginning on the night that the Baltimore riots started, members of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network have been in demand by a media trying to figure out why the looting and rioting there is being favorably compared by some to the historic protests of the Civil Rights ...
Justin Danhof Explains Our Work at GE on the O’Reilly Factor
For those who missed it, here's Justin Danhof's appearance on the O'Reilly Factor in which he describes asking General Electric's Jeff Immelt if he will release GE's written communications with the State Department relating to State helping GE with a $1.9 billion deal -- and GE making a nice donation ...
Cynical Power Company Supports Regulations that Will Increase Its Profits, But Harm the American People
Shareholder Activist Asks Exelon CEO How He Can Support Federal Regulations that Will Kill 500,000 Manufacturing Jobs and Half of All Jobs in the Coal Industry and Raise Energy Prices on American Families Chicago, IL / Washington, D.C. - Challenged over its support of proposed Obama Administration regulations that could ...
Black Conservatives on Baltimore Looting, Violence: “Felons Don’t Need ‘Space to Destroy’”
With the nation captivated by the rioting in Baltimore and the initial shocking pro-rioter statement of the city’s mayor, members of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network are speaking out about this civic crisis. Violence there was sparked by the death of Freddie Gray, a young black man ...
Conservatives 3 – Liberals 0; Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer and Honeywell Investors Overwhelmingly Reject Left’s Call That They Stop Working with Conservative Organizations and Public Officials
Liberal Attacks on American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Losing Steam Washington, D.C. - Three times in three business days, investors at three major corporations soundly voted to reject calls from the left that they stop working with conservative or free-market organizations or public officials. The rejections came after the National ...
Boeing Refuses to Disclose Any Boeing-State Department-Clinton Foundation Email Correspondence
Chairman Tells Shareholder He's "Comfortable" with Donations to Clinton Foundation That Could Put Boeing at Risk of Honest Services Fraud Charges Company Offers to Continue Discussion with Free-Market Think-Tank about Increased Transparency Despite Not Releasing E-Mails Chicago, IL / Washington, D.C. - Boeing Chairman and CEO W. James McNerney, Jr ...
The Health Care You Get Will Depend on Your Political Clout–Specialty Drug Edition Redux
Ben Boychuk of the Manhattan Institute is having trouble with ObamaCare. Specifically, his son Benjamin needs injections of human growth hormone, a specialty drug. According to Boychuk: My son Benjamin has a serious growth hormone deficiency. He’ll be 13 years old in May but could easily pass for a boy of 8 ...
Clinton Foundation May Have an Enron Problem
The Clinton Foundation just announced that it will revise its tax returns for 2010, 2011, and 2012 after revelations by the Reuters news organization that it neglected to report foreign government grants on its tax returns as required by law. Charities are required to provide a breakout of their government ...
Bill O’Reilly is All Over Our Question to GE’s Jeff Immelt
***Media alert: Tune in to Fox's O'Reilly Factor tonight to see our Justin Danhof discuss his question to Jeffrey Immelt, our colleague David Almasi's question to Boeing CEO W. James McNerney, and the crime of honest services fraud. It promises to be an exciting show.*** On Thursday Evening, Fox News ...
Leading Free Market Activist Group Advises Investors to Reject Upcoming Shareholder Resolutions Designed to Stifle Free Speech and Defund Market-Based Policy Solutions
Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer and Honeywell Investors Face Votes on Anti-Capitalist Measures National Center for Public Policy Research Leading the Charge Against Extremist Attacks on the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) As ALEC Works to Improve Business Environment and Expand American Jobs, Liberal Activists Spread Misinformation and Fear Washington, D.C ...
Free-Market Activist Shares ObamaCare Alternatives with Major Health Care Insurer
With U.S. Supreme Court Possibly Poised to Deal Crippling Blow to ObamaCare, National Center for Public Policy Research Presents Cigna Directors With "Baker's Dozen" of Free-Market Health Care Reform Ideas Shareholder Advocacy Dispels Left-Wing Narrative that Conservatives Lack Viable Alternatives to ObamaCare Windsor, CT / Washington, D.C. - At Cigna's ...
General Electric’s Jeff Immelt Says GE Will Not Make Public Written Communications with State Department During Period When It Made a Major Donation to the Clinton Foundation and then-Secretary of State Clinton Secured a $1.9 Billion Contract with the Algerian Government
Donation to Clinton Foundation Raises Potential Honest Services Fraud Questions Oklahoma City, OK / Washington, D.C. - At today's annual meeting of General Electric shareholders in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the National Center for Public Policy Research asked the industrial giant about the apparent conflict of interest between its philanthropy and ...
ObamaCare’s Amazing Wayback Clause
The above is the title of a piece by David Catron at the American Spectator. The “Wayback Clause” in ObamaCare is responsible for the law’s ability to impact phenomena prior to the law going into effect. Catron noted that “most celebrated effect of this amazing provision is its retroactive reduction ...
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