Year: 2010
Special Interests Want to Siphon Soda From Subsidized Diets
Washington, D.C. – Efforts by a special interest activist to restrict Americans receiving financial aid from using food subsidies for sodas are being criticized by Deneen Borelli of the Project 21 black leadership network as an attack on liberty and ...
Why Do Virginians Brag So Much?
In 2007, Virginia claimed America started with the settlement of Jamestown in 1607, but the first European settlement of what is now the U.S. was in Florida, and the first English settlement, in North Carolina After decades of wondering, I'm ...
U.S. Pushing Montreal Protocol as an Easy-Win Climate Treaty to Ban Emissions
U.N. officials, desperate for a win at the sleeper climate talks in Cancun, are now proposing a means to cut greenhouse gas emissions that should wake us all up: the 1987 Montreal Protocol. This from Greenwire in yesterday’s New York ...
NOAA Makes Monkey Out of Chimp; Agency Out-Forecasts Trained Chimpanzee – Who Knew?
Washington, DC - NOAA made a monkey out of Dr. James Hansimian, The National Center for Public Policy Research's trained hurricane-forecasting chimp, by producing a more accurate hurricane forecast for 2010. Today marks the official end of the 2010 Atlantic ...
There Is No Free Barbeque, by Greg Collins
There Is No Free Barbeque by Greg Collins Since when is barbeque a threat to civil rights? An Alexandria, Virginia attorney seems to think it is. Ed Ablard filed a lawsuit to halt the opening of a barbeque restaurant in ...
Border Security Threatened by Lame-Duck Lands Bill, by Dana Joel Gattuso
With his time running out, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is expected to try to force a massive omnibus lands bill1 through Congress. If passed, the mega-package would buy up and tie up millions of acres of land in ...
The Stickshift Economy, by David Schifrin
The Stickshift Economy by David Schifrin I recently taught a friend how to drive a car with a manual transmission. As I was when I learned, my friend was eager, ambitious and just a little too cocky — like President ...
OMG Parents, by Lisa Fritsch
OMG Parents by Lisa Fritsch (bio) Parents are now blaming the Internet for their lack of control over their children. Previous generations never had cell phones and computers, but kids were scamming their parents and bullying their classmates long before ...
Bank Creation Key to Black Economic Development, by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.
It is readily acknowledged that black Americans have catching up to do when it comes to income and wealth. Many people say this predicament is related to racism and discrimination. Please, let's be objective enough to look at other ...
Administration Invokes “Yellow Peril” To Peddle Green Energy
In a recent address before the National Press Club in Washington, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said the United States is in clear danger of losing the "energy race" to China. "For centuries, America has led the world in innovation. Today, ...
