Year: 2007

300+ Years of Activity Will Lead to Results 100 Years From Now

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Check out the math in this AP lede: Global warming is so severe that it will 'continue for centuries,' leading to a far different planet in 100 years, warned a grim landmark report from the world's leading climate scientists and ...
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National Center for Public Policy Research Turns 25

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I wouldn't want to let the day go by without -- rather self-indulgently -- wishing a happy birthday to us. Although the National Center for Public Policy Research was legally incorporated on September 14, 1981, our first day of business ...
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Is Health Care for the Poor Better Abroad?

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The National Center's David Hogberg has noticed a theme among left-of-center polemicists, who, when writing on health care, seem to be assuming that the poor get better health care when they live in nations with government-run systems. But is this ...
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Might “Strengthening Black Families Month” Be Better Than Celebrating Black History? by La Shawn Barber

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It's Black History Month again. Time to break out the tributes to Martin Luther King, go downtown to listen to bad poetry and look at bad art about the struggles of black folk, belt out a chorus of "We Shall ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists React to Senator Joe Biden’s Comments About Senator Barack Obama

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In calling Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) a "storybook" candidate based on his view that Biden is "articulate, bright and clean," Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) has angered members of the black leadership network Project 21, who say Biden's remarks are elitist, ...
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Is Health Care for the Poor Better Abroad

The National Center's David Hogberg has noticed a theme among left-of-center polemicists, who, when writing on health care, seem to be assuming that the poor get better health care when they live in nations with government-run systems. But is this ...
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Have Blacks Advanced in the 21st Century? by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.

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Six years ago, I made a public plea for our community to achieve a set of goals that would move us further up the path toward full integration into American society.  I said at that time - and I still ...
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Why the “N” Word Grows in Popularity, by Jeffrey Hicks

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The "n-word" is perhaps the most emotionally-loaded term in the English language. Throughout its history, the n-word's usage was primarily meant to dehumanize, debase and dishonor African-Americans.  In the "good old days," the word was used by bigots with either ...
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Oprah Shouldn’t Give Up on Our Kids, by Deneen Borelli

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After visiting our nation's failing urban public schools, Oprah Winfrey felt frustrated.  In an interview with Newsweek magazine, she said:  "I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools in the U.S.  The sense that you need to learn just isn't ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Activist Takes Issue with School Choice Opposition

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Senator Edward Kennedy's (D-MA) opposition to a proposed revision of the federal "No Child Left Behind" educational policy to allow school choice is evidence of an elitist attitude and a willingness to put the desires of the teachers' unions over ...
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