Author: Amy Ridenour

Is Apple’s Workforce Sufficiently Diverse? A Shareholder Proposal Says No, But I’m Skeptical

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Is Apple's workforce sufficiently diversified? Antonio Avian Maldonado II, a shareholder, says "no." He's submitted a shareholder proposal to be voted on at Apple's next shareholder meeting calling on the corporation to adopt an "accelerated recruitment policy" to increase diversity ...
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To Media Matters, It Is Still 2008

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Media Matters is at it again. Writer Kevin Kalhoefer has "awarded" the National Center's Jeff Stier and Julie Kelley's November 9 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about left-wing efforts to raises taxes on meat for supposed climate change-fighting purposes ...
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The Pro-Discrimination Left Needs to Be Slapped Down in Court, Says Project 21’s Joe Hicks

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Leaders of the Project 21 black leadership network are continuing to weigh in on the second appearance of the affirmative action case Fisher v. the University of Texas at Austin in front of the U.S. Supreme Court this week. Here's ...
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A Partial Solution to the Syrian Refugee Debate

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Some advocate settling Syrian refugees in the United States, saying, in effect, that the good America does by inviting them to our home outweighs any danger from embedded (or future) terrorists among them. Others say our government's first responsibility is ...
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President Obama’s Sexism Revealed

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Nancy Pelosi's, too. I'm not usually one to cry sexist, but because I haven't seen anyone else noticing, I'll point it out: When President Obama tried to mock certain Republicans by saying they are unnecessarily afraid of "widows and orphans" ...
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Left-wing Media Matters Publishes Dubious Report on Our WSJ Op-Ed; We Correct the Worst Stuff

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The left-wing spin outfit Media Matters is attempting to undercut an op-ed published today in the Wall Street Journal written by the National Center's Jeff Stier and food writer Julie Kelly. You can read the Wall Street Journal piece here ...
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Liberals Play Politics with Government Dietary Standards

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The National Center's Jeff Stier and food writer Julie Kelly took on the politicization of -- of all things -- the federal government's dietary guidelines in an article for National Review this week: Over the past 30 years, the Dietary ...
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More Disturbing News from the Abortion Industry

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Project 21’s Stacy Washington has commented on yet another disturbing story from the abortion industry: More sad news on the abortion front here in the U.S. A police raid in tony West Bloomfield Michigan has turned up 14 containers of ...
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In Memoriam: Whitney Ball

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We at the National Center for Public Policy Research were saddened to learn today of the death of Whitney Ball, the founder and CEO of DonorsTrust and an indefatigable fighter for liberty and limited government. Unlike many, we cannot claim ...
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Justice Scalia May Be Snarky, But He’s Also Quite Correct

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The Washington Post's Wonkblog staff, in an article published at 10:33 AM today, says Associate Justice Antonin Scalia "may have already won for snarkiness" in his dissent in the Obamacare case handed down today. It is amusing that the Post ...
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