Year: 2012

Fighting Senseless Sin Taxes in Maryland: “There’s good reason for lower taxes on smokeless tobacco”

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My letter to the editor in The Baltimore Sun challenges the paper’s editorial support for a proposal to raise sin-taxes on smokeless tobacco to the same (nearly confiscatory) rate as on cigarettes, which are far more harmful. I write, Your ...
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Black Conservatives Comment on Obama State of the Union Address

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Washington, D.C. - Black conservatives affiliated with the Project 21 leadership network are unimpressed with President Barack Obama's progress during his three years in office. They say Obama's State of the Union address tonight was long on rhetoric and short ...
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Supreme Court Rules Americans are Protected from “Surveillance State”

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National Center for Public Policy Research's Horace Cooper Praises Ruling, Which Was Based on Fourth Amendment to U.S. Constitution Washington, D.C. - National Center Adjunct Fellow Horace Cooper is praising the U.S. Supreme Court for its recent decision upholding the ...
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Ford Fulfills Commitment; Withdraws from Left-Wing U.S. Climate Action Partnership

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Ford CEO Had Been Pressed on Ford's Membership in Anti-Energy USCAP Lobbying Group by National Center for Public Policy Research Washington, D.C. - Following pressure from the National Center for Public Policy Research, the Ford Motor Company has withdrawn its ...
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Pepsi Settles Invented Discrimination Claim

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Over the last few weeks, I have been warning employers that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has invented a new form of discrimination that may place companies at risk of federal lawsuits.  Through an informal guidance letter, the EEOC recently suggested that having ...
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Project 21’s Hollis has an Old Commentary on a New Movie

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“Red Tails,” the new movie from producer George Lucas about the black airmen who fought Germans in the air and racial animosity back at home during World War II, opens in theaters today.  A trailer for the film can be ...
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NAACP Drags MLK Street Names into the Gutter in Assault on Microsoft

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Heard the story about Microsoft’s “Avoid the Ghetto” app that tells people not to go to Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard? There’s more to it than the sensational headlines and the complaints of at least one local NAACP official. Microsoft ...
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Jarrett’s Partisan Rant Should Put IRS Rule in Spotlight

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Last Sunday, helping commemorate the upcoming Martin Luther King holiday, Obama Administration senior advisor Valerie Jarrett took part in a service held at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.  From the pulpit of Dr. King’s former church, Jarrett made a ...
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Apple Shareholders Urged to Vote for Conflict of Interest Shareholder Proposal to Determine if Al Gore Violated Apple’s Business Conduct Policy

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Shareholders Have a Right to Know if Gore's Personal Financial Interests are Conflicting with His Board Responsibilities, says National Center for Public Policy Research Washington, D.C. - Today the National Center for Public Policy Research is urging Apple shareholders to ...
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National Center for Public Policy Research Supports Internet Campaign Against SOPA and PIPA

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Places CENSORED Banner on Website, Says Issa/Wyden OPEN Proposal a Better Approach to Protecting Copyright Without Endangering Free Speech or the Internet Washington, D.C. - The following statement from Amy Ridenour, chairman of the National Center for Public Policy Research, ...
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