Author: Amy Ridenour
Black Conservatives Commemorate Juneteenth Emancipation Celebration
Project 21 Stresses Importance of Freedom and Forgiveness Washington, D.C. - In observance of "Juneteenth," the oldest and most popular commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States, members of the Project 21 black leadership network are urging ...
Shareholders Want Caterpillar Lobbying Report to Explain Company Priorities
Investor Alert: Caterpillar Shareholders Urged to Vote for Proposal #8 for Transparency in Lobbying New Political Climate Offers Opportunities for Manufacturing Giant to Address Legislative and Regulatory Concerns to Increase Shareholder Value Athens, GA / Washington, D.C. - At this ...
Mental Health Parity Act Flawed
New Mexico's Rio Grande Foundation has posted a response to the National Center's press release yesterday about the Mental Health Parity Act, which is being introduced by Senators Ted Kennedy, Mike Enzi, and New Mexico's own Pete Domenici. Our release ...
Repeal the Antiquities Act of 1906
R.J. Smith As people in Utah and Nevada (and other places!) can tell you, it's too bad Congress is so bad at taking advice. With President Obama's new designations of the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah and the Gold ...
Bears Ears and Gold Butte National Monument Designations: Statement by Bonner Cohen
The following is a statement by Bonner Cohen, Ph. D., senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research, on the designation of the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah and the Gold Butte National Monument in Nevada by ...
Unto You Is Born This Day
Luke 2: 1-14 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And ...
Frustrated by Political Polarization and Division? Take a Lesson from History, and Begin the World Over Again
Thrilled or concerned about the incoming changes in Washington? Worried that the amount of political divisiveness in our country today is, except for the actual Civil War, unprecedented? Joe Roche has a reminder for all of you – perhaps especially ...
Is Apple Going the Way of the Post Office?
Hate to say it, but I think Apple, one of America's premier companies, may have its best days behind it. Yesterday, I wrote about incompetence at the U.S. Postal Service. Today, it's Apple. Used to be, you paid more for ...
Yet Another Post Office Story
The news media is running yet another story about a postal worker throwing away the public’s mail — this time, in the woods. The post office tells the news media that the man who threw the mail away is a ...
Want to Buy Lawmakers? Hacker Guccifer 2.0 Releases Notes Purporting to Show It Being Done
The hacker known as "Guccifer 2.0" is the source of an intriguing new article in the online publication The Intercept. The article purports to reproduce notes taken by the staff of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (the Democratic Party's arm ...
