Year: 2012

Congress Should Shut Off the Wind Subsidy America Can’t Afford and the Industry Doesn’t Even Need, Energy Expert Says

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Washington, D.C. - The Production Tax Credit (PTC) should be allowed to expire not only because it will cost taxpayers billions of dollars that they can't afford, but because the wind energy industry doesn't need it. That's a conclusion of ...
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Project 21’s Nedd Talks Upcoming Supreme Court Cases on Gay Marriage

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On Friday, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court announced they will hear two cases expected to bring some definitive legal closure to key elements in the debate over enforcing marriage as exclusively between a man and a woman. Both ...
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Privacy and Constitutional Issues at Play as Feds Move to Require Black Boxes in Cars, Says National Center Analyst

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The federal government's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is soon expected to announce that it will begin requiring that all new U.S. cars and light trucks be equipped with "data recorders" -- better known as "black boxes." Ford, GM, Toyota ...
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Project 21’s Stacy Swimp Gets Cell Phone Smashed by Union Protesters in Lansing, But Lays Seeds for Growth with Rank-and-File

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Project 21's Stacy Swimp had a run-in with labor union protestors yesterday that left him with a smashed cell phone, but also with optimism about the ability of conservatives to reach rank-and-file union members with our message. The scene was ...
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In Unemployment Figures, Project 21’s Green Thinks Americans Got What They Wanted

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Project 21 member Derryck Green, doesn’t think there’s a lot to celebrate regarding today’s minimal reported gains in the national employment numbers.  Derryck says: Our nation’s economic situation continues to worsen under Barack Obama’s leadership.  Is that his fault, or ...
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The Grouse Wars: Spotted Owls of the Prairie States Threaten Energy Production

The federal government has announced it’s opening 430 square miles (278,000 acres) in the Atlantic to wind development: areas 10 miles off Rhode Island in state waters and, in federal waters, areas for lease in Nantucket Sound (off Cape Cod, ...
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Conservative Activists to Challenge Zales Over Anti-American, Anti-Jobs Positions

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Jeweler to Face Questions Over Boycott of American Gold and Other Precious Metals from Alaska's Pebble Mine Irving, TX / Washington, D.C. - At today's annual meeting of Zales shareholders in Irving, Texas, National Center for Public Policy Research Free ...
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Zales Executives Claim Ignorance on Jobs-Killing Pledge Despite Potential to Harm American Workers, American Security and National Sovereignty

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Jeweler Will "Look Into" Its Past Endorsement of Radical Environmental Boycott of American Gold and Other Precious Metals from Alaska's Pebble Mine Irving, TX / Washington, D.C. - Today, at the Zales annual meeting of shareholders in Irving, Texas, National ...
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National Center for Public Policy Research Chairman Amy Ridenour Praises Outgoing Heritage Foundation President Dr. Ed Feulner, Congratulates Senator Jim DeMint

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Washington, D.C. - National Center for Public Policy Research Chairman Amy Ridenour made the following comments regarding the announcement by the Heritage Foundation today that Senator Jim DeMint will succeed Dr. Ed Feulner as president: The National Center for Public ...
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Why Can Costas Speak, But Not Limbaugh?

Salon magazine this afternoon is asking the silly question, Why can Limbaugh speak, but not Costas? It is Rush Limbaugh who is banned from speaking, not Bob Costas. Salon’s David Sirota has a long introduction to his argument (which you ...
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