Year: 2012

Don’t Mess With Texas Voters

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On November 6, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe will have dozens of election observers on patrol throughout the United States.  Those detailed to Texas, however, risk arrest if they interfere with the polling process — as it ...

Alleged Research Into Implied Racism Doesn’t Pass Muster

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With all of the concern about obesity, it was a shocking assertion.  Eating more chocolate might help win the Nobel Prize! Believe it or not.  There it was in the New England Journal of Medicine of all places.  Dr. Franz ...

Is Organic Food Worth It?

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The federal government annually spends millions of taxpayer dollars promoting and regulating organic agriculture. Is it worth it? In a piece for Real Clear Science, I explain why pro-organic arguments made by the likes of popular television health guru, Dr ...

Who Could Have Anticipated a Hurricane? Not a Politician

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Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York, reflecting on the lessons of Hurricane Sandy, as reported by CNBC: "Going forward we are going to have to anticipate these types of extreme weather patterns." Who could have anticipated a hurricane significantly harming ...

Commentary on Kennedy Center Published in TownHall

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This past weekend, Townhall.com published my commentary based on an earlier blog post that laments the continuing decline in quality of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center. Ellen DeGeneres, probably best known to the American ...

Bad Timing Hall of Fame: Voter Fraud Edition

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Voting is at the core of our democratic principles.  When that right is violated, our democracy is violated. Representative Jim Moran (D-VA) wrote this in his regular column in the Falls Church News-Press, a left-wing community newspaper found in the ...

Congressman’s Kid Faces Fraud Investigation

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Less than a day after the release of a Project Veritas video showing Patrick Moran in a discussion with an undercover reporter about vote fraud strategies, police in Arlington County, Virginia announced an investigation into the matter. Moran was a ...

Obama Endures Modern-Day Poll Tax, Emerges Unscathed

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That wasn’t so hard, was it? Taking advantage of early voting, President Barack Obama cast his general election ballot yesterday in Chicago.  He did not reveal who he voted for. Before the President received his ballot, he had to show ...

Vote Fraud Allegations in Virginia Implicate Congressman’s Son

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As Virginia state officials begin investigating one alleged case of vote fraud, the release of a devastating new video shows that the son of a sitting congressman was willing to participate in a conspiracy to commit voter fraud at the ...

Cherylyn Harley LeBon and Horace Cooper Named New Project 21 Co-Chairmen

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The National Center for Public Policy Research is pleased to announce the appointment of two new co-chairmen, Cherylyn Harley LeBon and Horace Cooper, to jointly lead Project 21, the black leadership group sponsored by the National Center. This is our ...

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