Year: 2011

A History of Bans: My Book Review in Reason

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My review of Christopher Snowdon’s latest book, The Art of Suppression: Pleasure, Panic and Prohibition Since 1800 appears in the January, 2012 print edition of Reason. Modern-Day Prohibition The eternal temptation to ban things that give people pleasure Jeff Stier ...
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Now I’ve Seen Everything

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The left-wing DeSmogBlog website, which exists to slander people who disagree with Al Gore, is finally admitting that people who do not agree with Gore on global warming honestly disagree, and aren't just being paid to disagree by corporations: ...McCright ...
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Black Conservatives React to House Repeal of ObamaCare

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Washington, D.C. – With the U.S. House of Representatives voting today to completely repeal last year's legislation to begin a federal government takeover of the nation's health care apparatus, members of the Project 21 black leadership network are reacting: Bishop ...
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Remember the Greens: Crony Capitalists Not Only Ones to Blame for Unforceable Light Bulb Ban

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Howie Carr of the Boston Herald has fun piece in today's Boston Herald explaining the green fundamentalists' thinking (feeling?) behind their support of the de facto light bulb ban. The Greens, of course, have a different motivation for supporting the ...
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NPR Double Standard: Taxpayer Funds Pay for Racist Rant

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Soon After Juan Williams Firing, Black Conservatives Question Subsidies for Divisive Rant Recalling Arizona Shooting Washington, D.C. – Project 21's Jerome Hudson is calling for an end to all National Public Radio subsidies in light of NPR's broadcast of a ...
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Did FCC Chairman Give Race-Based Special Interests Veto Power over Approval of NBC-Comcast Merger?

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Washington, D.C. – Members of the Project 21 black leadership group are questioning whether FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski's approval of the NBC Universal-Comcast merger was contingent upon the two companies making major concessions to minority special interest groups. Deneen Borelli, ...
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Fairness Doctrine a “Knee-Jerk Reaction” by Liberal Lawmakers

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Project 21 fellow Deneen Borelli, noting that the “progressive agenda is on the ropes,” says calls for reinstating “Fairness Doctrine” regulations to allow the government to control media content are a “knee-jerk reaction” by liberal lawmakers to last weekend’s shooting ...
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National Center at the Prow on U.S.S. Murtha Outcry

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In the November 2010 issue of Proceedings, the magazine of the U.S. Naval Institute, senior editor J.M. Caiella wrote about the problem in naming one of the Navy’s newest amphibious transports after the late Representative John Murtha (D-PA). Time magazine blogger ...
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Mr. President, You Are Right We Need to Bring Common Sense to our Regulatory System: Let’s Start with the Environment

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Mr. President, you are right on the mark when you write in today’s Wall Street Journal that “vibrant entrepreneurialism is the key to our continued global leadership and the success of our people.” You are right when you say we ...
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What Country is This Again?

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The FCC approved the NBC-Comcast merger under the condition that it offer more programming in Spanish ...
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