ARCHIVE – 2016

No President Should Be Able to Create a 5,000-Square-Mile National Monument Without Consulting Congress and Affected States

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Reform Needed, Group Says: No President Should Be Able to Create a 5,000-Square-Mile National Monument Without Consulting Congress and Affected States National Center for Public Policy Research Calls on Congress to Repeal 1906 Law that Allows Presidents of Both Parties to Bypass States and Localities When Creating National Monuments Says ...

Joe Hicks, RIP

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On this Labor Day, a day dedicated to the achievements of American workers, David and I are remembering in particular the contribution of one worker: Joe Hicks, who until his untimely passing from unexpected surgical complications in Los Angeles last Sunday, was one of Project 21's most active, valued, and ...

Climate Change Alarmists’ Dramatic New Claim Doesn’t Hold Water: U.S. Military Bases Are Not at Risk from Global Warming

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Saying we "must prepare for the growing exposure of our military bases to sea-level rise," a new study by the Cambridge, Mass.-based Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) calls on the Pentagon and Congress to devote substantial resources to protecting national security from the threat of climate change. The study, "The ...

In The News: Spring/Summer 2016 edition

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Time to Repeal the Antiquities Act of 1906, by R.J. Smith

National Policy Analysis #677 /
With a stroke of his infamous pen, President Barack Obama celebrated the Centennial of the National Park Service (NPS) by using an antiquated federal law to designate 87,563 acres (137 square miles) of north central Maine forestland as the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. This designation turns formerly private ...

The Sounds of Blackness or A False Narrative?

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This is a guest post by Emery McClendon of Project 21 The black community has a big problem. It mainly stems from a lack of teaching morals, values, personal responsibility, and a respect for God, country, and the family. All of these were pillars of the black family prior to ...

Obama’s Unilateral Maine Action Proves: Time to Repeal Antiquities Act of 1906

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Antiquities Act Allows President to Designate Federal Lands Without Congressional or Local Approval Move Comes After White House Designates Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in Maine Against Maine's Wishes Move Had Political Impacts, and Was Supported by Environmental Left Washington, D.C. - Two land rights experts with the National ...

Department of Justice’s Report on Baltimore Police Ignores Importance of Keeping Neighborhoods Safe

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Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper has reviewed the U.S. Department of Justice's report on Baltimore policing, and he's not impressed: The report should have been subtitled, "criminal lives matter." Career criminals, who make up the overwhelming number of individuals encountered by Baltimore police, are sanitized in the report and actual ...

Black Conservatives Available for Commentary on Police Killings, Freddie Gray Case

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Killings of Police Officers; 'Community v. Police' Debate; Fourth Verdict in Freddie Gray Trial Expected July 18 Among Available Topics Washington, D.C. - Black conservatives affiliated with the Project 21 national leadership group are available for interviews and commentary on breaking news events, including but not limited to: the murder ...

Time to Lower the Cost of Back-to-School Dental Checkups

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Innovation in Dental Practice Management Saves Money on Management Costs Such as Billing and Ordering Supplies Lower Costs are Passed Along to Patients But Old-Guard Dental Practices Are Lobbying Legislatures to Ban this Innovation They Want to Keep Prices, and Profits, Higher National Center's Jeff Stier Asks Legislatures Not to ...

The Role of Gun Laws and Race in the Newest Neighborhood Watch Murder

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On August 7, Chad Copley shot and killed 20-year-old Kouren Bernard Thomas outside his home, after a 911 caller (presumably Copley) claimed he was “securing (his) neighborhood” as part of a neighborhood watch program. On August 10, National Center legal expert and Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper appeared on HLN’s “Dr ...

What is the Legal Basis of Your Action Against North Carolina’s HB2?

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National Center for Public Policy Research to Ask Software Company Red Hat to Explain Its Legal Position that the 1964 Civil Rights Act and Title IX of the 1972 Education Act Make Basing Sex on Biology Illegal "Sex Discrimination" Executives Will be Quizzed at Company Shareholder Meeting in Raleigh Today ...

Could Barack Obama and His Successor, Presumably Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, Re-Write the 1964 Civil Rights Act Anytime They Want?

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National Center for Public Policy Research Asks Major Software Company Why It Argues In Court That Assigning the Use of Public Restrooms and Showers by Biological Sex Is Illegal "Sex Discrimination" U.S. Department of Justice Argues that 1964 Civil Rights Act, 1972 Education Act and 2013 Education Act All Make ...

U.S. Justice Department Report on Baltimore Policing: “Evidence of a Vindictive, Politically-Motivated Obama DOJ,” Says Project 21’s Joe Hicks

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Department of Justice Report, "Investigation of the Baltimore City Police Department," Comes on Heels of Failed Prosecution of Six Baltimore Police Officers in Freddie Gray Case 163-Page Report Was Highly Critical of Baltimore City Police Department Hicks Says DOJ Report Contains "Classic Leftist Class/Race Theory," Calls it Insulting to the ...

FDA E-Cig Regulations Harm Innovation, Public Health; Groups File in Support of Challenge to Deeming Rule

Washington, D.C. - Today, TechFreedom and the National Center for Public Policy Research filed an amicus brief in support of the challenge to the FDA's new regulation of e-cigs being brought by Nicopure Labs, a manufacturer of e-cigarette liquid. In May, the FDA finalized its Deeming Rule regulations, which would ...

The Republican Party Is About White Lives Making Black Lives Matter

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A guest post by Ted Hayes, Civil Rights & Homeless Activist for Project 21 Unlike the heritage of other United States citizens, whose white lives are a matter of willing immigration, black lives are of unwilling, chattel slavery. The agendas of the Republican National Committee based in DC purporting to ...

Baltimore Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby Condemned for Remarks, Actions in Freddie Gray Case

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"Abusing her power in this way makes her unfit to continue in this office" "If Mosby had a single shred of dignity she would resign her post immediately" "Her decision to unleash a prosecution on six individuals without evidence of criminal wrongdoing is as wrong as the inflammatory prosecutorial tactics ...

Black Lives Matter… When They Can Be Exploited

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https://youtu.be/WO_0Ov60XAE "Black lives [are] mattering, but only in a political context, when they can be exploited...," says Project 21's Joe Hicks, appearing with radio host Tommy "TJ" Sotomayor on Jamie Glazov's "The Glazov Gang." Do watch it all ...

Military, Police Defended by Project 21’s Horace Cooper on CNN’s HLN Dr. Drew Show

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Project 21's own Horace Cooper was on CNN's HLN (Headline News) Dr. Drew Show last night, defending both the U.S. military and our nation's police officers. Here's excerpts from the action from Horace's appearance last night, with guest host Roger Lodge, Counterterrorism Expert Aaron Cohen, Clinical Psychologist Judy Ho, Civil ...

Project 21’s Joe Hicks Puts Black Lives Matter Under the Heat Lamp

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Project 21's Joe R. Hicks has been quoted extensively on TV and radio in recent days. Here's an example of an appearance that got a lot of attention - Joe on the Fox News Channel's The Kelly File on July 11. "Last week -- last week, three people were walking ...

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