Wendy Bell Firing from WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh Criticized by Black Leaders
Washington, D.C. - Spokesmen for the national black leadership group Project 21 are critical of WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh for firing anchor Wendy Bell for comments about a March 9 multiple murder in the Pittsburgh suburb of Wilkinsburg. Bell wrote, in part: ...There's no nice words to write when a coward ...
Kevin Martin on SCOTUS, Drug Wars and Gitmo
On the 3/25/16 episode of RT Network’s “The Big Picture,” Project 21’s Kevin Martin took on issues ranging from the SCOTUS nominee to the drug wars to Gitmo detainees. Martin pointed out the hypocrisy of liberals who are demanding that the Senate vote on Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland: “Why ...
More Indictments for Crime That Doesn’t Exist
Although left-wing activists claim "voter fraud doesn't exist," prosecutors have somehow continued to find cases to prosecute. Are all these prosecutors right-wing racists? Unlikely. Latest case in the news comes from Florida, where, the Orlando Sentinel reports (hat tip: Election Law Center), the mayor of Eatonville and two others have ...
Starbucks Asked to Protect Employees’ Right to be Politically Active Without Penalty at Work
Justin Danhof, general counsel of the National Center for Public Policy Research and director of its Free Enterprise Project, addressed the CEO, board and shareholders of Starbucks at Starbucks' 2016 shareholder meeting on March 23, 2016. Shareholders were asked to vote for a human rights proposal and to support a ...
Socialism in the Bathroom: Insane “Free Tampons” Movement Wants to Divert Tuition Funds to Tampons?
I wrote on March 12 about the insane idea that public restrooms “owe” women free tampons if they don’t charge for toilet paper. The logic, such as it is, is that if a toiletry item used by both genders (toilet paper) is provided free of charge, then ALL toiletry items ...
Did Zoolander Influence the Future of iPhones?
Justin Danhof, Esq., the director of our Free Enterprise Project, appeared on the Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast” Monday to discuss the future of the iPhone, Apple’s battle with the FBI, Jesse Jackson’s appearance at the Apple shareholder meeting, and more. To view his appearance, including how the ...
Starbucks Investors Vote on Employee Protection Shareholder Proposal
Human Rights Proposal Intended to Protect Company Workers Who Engage in Political and Civic Activities, Among Other Human Rights Concerns Seattle, WA / Washington, D.C. - At today's annual meeting of Starbucks shareholders in Seattle, Washington, Justin Danhof, Esq., representing the National Center for Public Policy Research, presented a stockholder ...
Free Enterprise Advocate Urges Starbucks Investors to Support Resolution Designed to Protect Employees Who Engage in Political and Civic Activities
National Center for Public Policy Research to Discuss Concerns About Corporate Efforts to Stifle Freedom of Speech and Association at Annual Meeting of Starbucks Shareholders Free Enterprise Project's Efforts Have So Far Extended Workplace Protections to More than Five Million Americans Seattle, WA / Washington, D.C. - Ahead of tomorrow's ...
Project 21 Black Leaders Condemn Obama Trip to Cuba
"Communism has never worked, can never work and... must be challenged" "Why is the President cozying up to killers?" "This president... has pole-vaulted over America's territory of Puerto Rico, which is dying on the economic vine, to play kissy-face with the Castros" "Cuba gets legitimacy and currency while America gets ...
Project 21 Black Leadership Network Statement on President Obama’s U.S. Supreme Court Vacancy Announcement
Washington, D.C. - The following is a statement by Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper on President Obama's nomination of a candidate to fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court: The White House believes it can hide behind the notion that the U.S. Senate should "do its duty" and act ...
Are Abortionists Really “Butchers”?
Can abortionists be appropriately labeled “butchers?” That’s the term used by Horace Cooper of the National Center for Public Policy Research, a term that sent his liberal counterpart Sam Bennett reeling in horror last night on the RT Network’s “The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann.” Perhaps Ms. Bennett should watch ...
Activists Demand Free Tampons Because Men Don’t Menstruate (Seriously!)
This is truly the age of grievances. Case in point is the new political cause arguing that tampons should be distributed for free in public restrooms, simply because public restrooms almost never charge for toilet paper. From the New York Times: "Tampons and pads should be treated just like toilet ...
Project 21 Members Stand up for Sanity at Mizzou
Project 21 members Stacy Washington and Nadra Enzi, among other Project 21 members, have been taking to the airwaves to counteract some of the more extreme statements by radical activists at the University of Missouri. After Black Lives Matter founders Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi told University of Missouri students ...
U.S. Senate Makes Bill to Fight Opioid Abuse a Priority, But Why Isn’t This Best Left to States and Localities?
Hate to be a skunk at a garden party (as usual!), but I question the conventional wisdom about S.524, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016, a bi-partisan bill that permits the Justice Department and HHS to make grants and run task forces and undertake other measures to combat ...
Disney’s Robert Iger Denies ABC News is Biased at Disney Shareholder Meeting
Tells National Center for Public Policy Research That Media Bias at ABC is "Very Very Rare" Also Denies That Former Clinton Administration Official and Clinton Foundation Donor George Stephanopoulos Has Bias in Covering Presidential Race In Other Meeting Business, Liberal Group's Effort to Separate Disney from the National Restaurant Association ...
Walt Disney Investors asked to Reject Liberal Resolution Targeting Corporate Involvement with Groups that Support Free Enterprise and Private Job Creation
National Center for Public Policy Research Calls for Investors to Vote Against Zevin Asset Management Proposal Resolution Attacking the National Restaurant Association Chicago, IL / Washington, D.C. - In advance of today's annual meeting of Walt Disney shareholders scheduled to take place at Roosevelt University in Chicago, the National Center ...
What the FBI Wants Apple to Do
There's much confusion about just what the FBI is asking Apple to do in the matter of the locked iPhone that was used by one or both of the San Bernardino terrorists. FBI Director James Comey testified today before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee and listed, in response ...
Liberal Congresswoman Calls for Federal Drug Tests for Farmers If Food Stamp Recipients Get Them
Why shouldn't farmers have to get drug-tested before they receive agricultural subsidies or participate in federal agriculture programs, if people on various welfare programs, including food stamps (SNAP), do? So asks Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) in a Colin Taylor article for Occupy Democrats, but she is only one of many ...
Hollywood Specializes in Fiction – Beware of Following Its Policy Advice
As the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences meets tonight in California to give awards to itself, it is as good a time as any to remind ourselves that there's a reason Hollywood specializes in fiction. Example #1 is a press release by the green Natural Resources Defense Council ...
Apple Shareholders Reject Shareholder Proposal Claiming Board is “Too Vanilla” (aka, White)
Lack of diversity has long been a problem among the many Silicon Valley companies that employ mostly white men. Apple has said previously it would work to address gaps in employee diversity. -Time, "Apple Shareholders Reject Plan to Recruit Minorities for Top Positions" by Katie Reilly, February 27, 2016 Would ...
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