Year: 2012

Superstorm Damage Doesn’t Demand Super State

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Dr. Elaina George, a member of the Project 21 black leadership network, is not sold on big government like some are in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. While some people are using hurricane relief efforts as a way of justifying ...
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Project 21’s Washington Praises Komen Break with Planned Parenthood

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In the wake of the news that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer charity is breaking its financial ties with Planned Parenthood, Project 21 spokeswoman Stacy Washington had this to say: In what can only be seen ...
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Excellent Analysis of the Susan G. Komen/Planned Parenthood Case at IBD

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David Hogberg at Investor’s Business Daily has just published a very sound analysis of the thinking and politics behind the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood. He also puts the lie to the allegation made by ...
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President Obama’s Green Jobs Quest

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President Barack Obama’s similarities with Herman Mellville’s character Captain Ahab are striking. Both were abandoned by family members (Obama by his father, and Ahab by both parents).  Both have unfortunate names (Obama’s middle name is Hussein which is shared by ...
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“We’re Taking Back the Park!”

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That is what our very own David Almasi told Alex Pappas of the Daily Caller yesterday. Starting February 13, the National Center is planning daily lunchtime rallies and events in Freedom Plaza as a counter-protest to the Occupy D.C. folks ...
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Putting Students to the Test to Make Them Go Farther, by Cherylyn Harley LeBon

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Education experts, counselors and parents often debate the question, "How do we persuade students to start thinking about college?" The answer, according to D.C. Council Chairman Kwame R. Brown, is simple and innovative: Require all students in District schools to ...
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Why Voter ID Should Matter to Americans of All Races, by Deneen Borelli

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The Reverend Jesse Jackson and other establishment civil rights leaders scolded South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley earlier this year, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day no less, for her state's voter identification law. They reminded her that her Indian ancestry ...
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Becoming American with a Passport, by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.

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It is often said that people truly cannot understand the United States of America until they have thoroughly traveled the nation. I'd like to challenge that reasoning somewhat — expanding it to argue that one really cannot understand our nation ...
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Illegal ‘Ghost Voting’ is Worse Than a Poll Tax or Literacy Tests, Legal Expert Says, Yet Eric Holder Opposes Efforts to Stop Illegal Voting Schemes

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Attorney General is Wrong to Call Voter ID Unconstitutional, Says Horace Cooper of the National Center for Public Policy Research Washington, D.C. - Responding to a tsunami of evidence that opportunities for fraudulent voting have reached crisis levels, National Center ...
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Project 21’s Stacy Swimp Lauds Right-to-Work Victory in Virginia

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In Virginia, Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling used his tie-breaking vote in the commonwealth’s Senate for the first time on January 31 to pass legislation prohibiting state funds from being used in “Project Labor Agreements” that favor unionized contractors.  The House ...
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