Year: 2009

Hear the Borellis Speak on Cap-and-Trade at Harrisburg Tea Party Event This Saturday

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Free Enterprise Project Director Tom Borelli and Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli are both featured speakers at a rally to be held in conjunction with the "March on Harrisburg, PA" on Saturday, November 14. The march and rally is sponsored ...

Project 21’s Deneen Borelli to be on “Hannity” Friday Night

Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli will appear on the "Great American Panel" on the Fox News Channel's "Hannity" program at 9:30 PM eastern on Friday, November 13. Deneen will discuss the progress of health care reform in the Senate, the ...

Project 21’s Deneen Borelli on “Hannity” on Friday Night

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Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli will appear on the "Great American Panel" on the Fox News Channel's "Hannity" program at 9:30 PM eastern on Friday, November 13. Deneen will discuss the progress of health care reform in the Senate, the ...

Climate Alarmist Says “Do As I Say, Not As I Do”

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Concerned that the increasingly shrill warnings by environmentalists on the dangers of global warming are beginning to undermine the credibility of everyone calling for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, some scientists are calling for them to... um... cool it. One ...

A Bush By Any Other Name

President Barack Obama is often likened - and clearly sees himself as spiritual successor - to presidential luminaries like Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt. But he is fast on track to following the footsteps of a less celebrated predecessor - ...

Government Health System Penalized Woman for Supporting Her Own Cancer Treatment

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Summary: The British National Health Service refused to provide the advanced cancer drug Avastin to Colette Mills, who was willing to pay for it herself. Mills was told that if she paid for the drug the NHS didn't cover because ...

Fourteen Hospitals Turn Away Critically-Injured Elderly Man

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Summary: Instead of whisking a 69-year-old Japanese bicyclist who collided with a motorcycle to the emergency room, paramedics called 14 hospitals trying to find a facility that at last accepted the critically-injured man. The hospital at which he was taken ...

Quote of Note: Government-Run Health Care Results in Fewer Doctors

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"Long waits and shortages result from government control of the health sector. There are only so many hospitals, only so many doctors. When government promises that everyone will be treated (ostensibly) gratis, it does not simultaneously conjure more doctors into ...

Senate Democrats Seek to Change Cap-and-Trade Debate from Energy to Jobs, by Caroline May

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Senate Democrats are considering yet another global warming bill, optimistic that ­– despite the current economic malaise – a better sales pitch will increase support for their restrictive energy proposals.  The legislation's sponsors, Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Barbara Boxer ...

Project 21’s Horace Cooper on C-Span Friday to Discuss Race Issues in Obama’s America – Watch or Listen Live

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By David Almasi: Project 21 member and National Center board member Horace Cooper has been scheduled to discuss how the dynamic of race relations is changed by Barack Obama’s election to the presidency on C-Span's "Washington Journal" program Friday morning.You ...

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