On February 18, Sunlight's Lindsay Young reported that Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) disclosures show that The National Center for Public Policy Research participated in luncheon briefings sponsored by the Gaddafi Charitable and Development Foundation in 2009. FARA records actually ...
As noted in a previous blog post, most left-wing pundits were silent when Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia succeeded in getting part-time state workers limited to 29 hours per week so as to avoid giving them health insurance as ...
At the 2/22/13 “Black Leaders Speak Out on Gun Control” press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Project 21 member Stacy Swimp discusses the racist underpinnings of early gun control laws that were enforced in the Reconstruction-era ...
Where’s Sam Donaldson when we need him? A combination of new media (such as Facebook and Twitter) and the decline of old media (the Washington Post just laid off dozens of staff and is contemplating selling its headquarters) gives a ...
Grover Whitehurst, now a scholar at the Brookings Institution, has spent much of his career developing learning programs for young children. He recently wrote two very good essays asking if we could be “hard headed” about Head Start and Universal Pre-K by admitting ...
National Public Radio (NPR) is featuring an excellent 3-part investigation into the Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) fisheries certification program. Journalists Daniel Zwerdling and Margot Williams attempted to answer the loaded question: “Is Sustainable-Labeled Seafood Really Sustainable?” while green groups loudly ...
An extremely unfortunate story comes out of the District of Columbia, where a 71-year-old man, Durand Ford, Sr., died. Mr. Ford had trouble breathing very early on January 1, and his family called an ambulance, but it took 33 minutes ...
As readers of this blog know, I sometimes go over to the Diversity Inc. magazine website for a look at the views of race-obsessed people. More often then not, I find something surprising, as in a column I read today ...
While attending a health policy conference co-sponsored by the National Center and the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies, Risk Analysis Division director Jeff Stier was interviewed about harm reduction measures related to tobacco by the Israeli Broadcasting Authority’s radio news ...
Salon's running a breathless headline: "Republican Dark Money Group’s Corporate Sponsors Revealed." Sounds like a scoop exposing something nefarious, right? Maybe, but not in the way the left thinks. The left's "scoop" is that it got a list of who ...
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