Consumer Choice and Company Profit Are Both Needed in Health Care, Says Cooper
“The reason that most people have a negative impression about the so-called Affordable Care Act is because the government has taken away so many of our choices from us.” - Horace Cooper, legal fellow with the National Center for Public Policy Research and co-chair of Project 21 Cooper discussed efforts ...
Starbucks CEO Ducks Shareholder Question About Trump Criticism
Howard Schultz Won't Explain Why He Criticized Trump Immigration Ban But Ignored Similar Obama Policy Is Schultz Taking on President Trump to Promote His Own 2020 Presidential Ambitions? Retiring Executive Doubles Down on Refugee Hiring Policy That Business Insider Reports Is Causing Starbucks Brand to Take 'A Beating' Despite Denial, ...
Free-Market Criticism of Starbucks CEO’s Liberal Agenda Brewing for Annual Investor Meeting
Activists Ready for Third Appearance at a Starbucks Shareholder Meeting Business Insider Reports Starbucks' "Brand Has Taken a Beating" After Coffeehouse Giant Challenges Trump Agenda Seattle, WA / Washington, D.C. - Trouble is brewing at Starbucks, and the nation's leading proponent of free-market investor activism is set to question Starbucks ...
Disney’s Response to Fake News: Deny, Deny, Deny
National Center for Public Policy Research Takes President Trump's Fight Against "Enemy of the People" Media to Disney Shareholder Meeting Disney CEO Robert Iger Claims ABC News "Extremely Fair" - Despite Wikileaks Exposure of Documents Showing Hillary Clinton Campaign Coordinated Coverage with ABC's George Stephanopoulos Claims ESPN On-Air Staff's Criticism ...
Liberals Attack Disney’s Free Speech and Freedom of Association
National Center for Public Policy Research Urges Shareholders to Reject Proposal to Restrict Disney's Ability to Associate With U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Other Pro-Business Groups National Center's Free Enterprise Project Says Left-Wing Shareholder Proposal Would Censor Disney's Speech and Harmfully Dictate Business Relationships Denver, CO / Washington, D.C. - ...
Mental Health Parity Act Flawed
New Mexico's Rio Grande Foundation has posted a response to the National Center's press release yesterday about the Mental Health Parity Act, which is being introduced by Senators Ted Kennedy, Mike Enzi, and New Mexico's own Pete Domenici. Our release says: Senators Domenici, Enzi and Kennedy To Make Health Insurance ...
Apple’s Hypocrisy? Company’s Charitable Donations Helped Expand Presidential Powers Under Obama It Now Opposes Under Trump
Shareholder Proposal Demands Apple Come Clean on Charitable Contributions Apple's Controversial Donations to Extremist Center for American Progress and Scandal-Plagued Clinton Foundation Show Need for Transparency, Accountability Cupertino, CA / Washington, D.C. - At today's annual meeting of Apple shareholders in Cupertino, California, a representative of the National Center for ...
Black Americans Should Work With President Trump to Save Our Nation
Project 21’s Ted Hayes spoke today with radio host Pastor Greg Young about why black Americans would do best to work with President Trump instead of castigating others who do. “We as black people have struggled for a long time in this country with the help of our white brothers ...
Trump’s Newest Executive Order Shows He Appreciates Law Enforcement
Project 21 member Council Nedd, who is also a Pennsylvania State Constable and an Archbishop, says President Trump’s newest executive order shows he appreciates law enforcement officers. “I think it’s incredibly telling about where President Trump’s heart is on this particular issue, that one of his first acts was to ...
Does the Government Think You Can Handle the Truth?
Can you trust the government to tell you the truth about smoking? Jeff Stier, the Director of the Risk Analysis Division at the National Center for Public Policy Research, says a new Department of Defense anti-smoking program - UCanQuit2.org - won’t admit that e-cigarettes are less harmful than regular cigarettes ...
Horace Cooper Ridicules Idea that Trump Immigration Order is ‘Muslim Ban’
Horace Cooper, co-chair of the Project 21 black leadership network and legal fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research, appeared today on “Wake Up!” with Steve Curtis on KLZ 560 AM to discuss the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ treatment of President Trump’s immigration executive order. A few ...
NOAA Created Fake News by Manipulating Climate Data
On “The Vicki McKenna Show,” broadcast February 16 on 1310 WIBA Madison, National Center for Public Policy Research fellow Bonner Cohen revealed how the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) used taxpayer money to knowingly falsify climate data in order to make climate change seem worse than it is. “NOAA was ...
Why Would Taiwan Ban E-Cigarettes?
The body of scientific evidence keeps getting more robust. E-cigarettes are dramatically less harmful than cigarettes, they are helping smokers quit, and are not a gateway to smoking. Yet ideological opposition persists, and is influencing governments around the world. Last month, the government of Taiwan proposed an all out ban ...
“Greatest Constitutional Mind” Horace Cooper Dissects Ninth Circuit Court Decision
On his Newsmax TV show, host Jack Burkman introduced National Center legal fellow Horace Cooper as “the man I think is America’s greatest constitutional mind” and “my next pick for AG or the Supreme Court.” In this clip, broadcast on February 11, 2017, Burkman asks Cooper to dissect the 9th ...
UC-Berkeley Riots: Free Speech, Not Violence, Protected by the Constitution
When Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to give a speech at University of California-Berkeley, riots broke out that caused more than $100,000 worth of damage. Then the school newspaper published five essays supporting the violence. Are these riots protected under free speech? Which is protected under the Constitution, potentially offensive speech ...
President Trump Already Better Than President Obama Regarding Terrorism, Says Project 21’s Nedd
Project 21’s Council Nedd II discussed President Trump’s immigration executive order as part of a townhall panel on the Fox News Channel program “The First 100 Days” on February 3, 2017. “We had eight years of an Obama Administration, who was pretending that there were zero problems with regard to ...
Corporations That Supported ObamaCare Need to Now Help President Trump Repeal and Replace
Will Walgreens and other corporations that formerly backed ObamaCare now reform their ways and help President Trump with his health care reform initiatives? One J.D. discussed it with another J.D. on “Newsmax Prime” on January 27, 2017, as former Rep. J.D. Hayworth interviewed Justin Danhof, director of the Free Enterprise ...
Why I Marched
I have always been pro-life, and I grew up in the D.C. suburbs. Yet until last week, I had never attended the March for Life. Why did I go this year? Two important reasons: 1. I wanted a place where I felt I belonged. Though several of my pro-life colleagues ...
Shining a Light on Midnight Regulations
Much has been made about the unprecedented number of Obama Administration “midnight regulations,” those rules issued between Election Day and the Trump inauguration. The Obama administration issued an estimated $157 billion worth of midnight regulations, according to the American Action Forum, headed by Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former Director of the Congressional Budget ...
What Should the Feds Do About the Chicago ‘Carnage’?
Can President Donald Trump really “send in the Feds” to deal with the skyrocketing murder and crime rates in Chicago? Horace Cooper, legal fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research and co-chair of Project 21, appeared on Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor” on 1/24/17 to explain how ...
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