Remember the ultra-mini Blackwater tax scandal of 2007? In it, liberal Senators Barack Obama, John Kerry and Dick Durbin kicked up a fuss because Blackwater treated security guards it employed in Iraq as independent contractors (making them responsible for paying ... READ MORE
Coyote Blog writes about cases in which local governments have forced people who want to start new businesses to prove their new business is "justified by the marketplace," that is, won't harm their likely competitors too much. Hat tip: @WalterOlson ... READ MORE
By David Almasi: Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie will be a guest on C-Span’s “Washington Journal Sunday” program this coming Sunday (February 1, 2009).Mychal is scheduled to be interviewed one-on-one with host Steve Scully and take phone calls. Later in ... READ MORE
By Joe Roche: "We in this country are by destiny rather than by choice the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.” John F. Kennedy did not live to speak these words from his speech, prepared to give the day ... READ MORE
From Alfred Lee at the Pasadena Star-News, information that new environmental regulations in California will push some gas stations out of out of business: Dozens, and potentially hundreds, of gas stations around California are choosing to shut down rather than ... READ MORE
If adopted, the stimulus bill could kill you you or your loved ones. No, not immediately, and not for certain, but it could. It's because of something in the fine print. If you haven't yet read this James C. Capretta ... READ MORE
A British government environmental minister is warning that recycling "could be adding to global warming." Furthermore, this Daily Telegraph article notes that some local governments in Britain have "admitted using anti-terrorism legislation to snoop on householders who fail to recycle ... READ MORE
In light of the new federal subpoenas on top Obama aides avid Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett, Hot Air's Ed Morrissey asks: "Why did the internal report from the Obama team [on the Rod Blagojevich scandal] not mention Axelrod when they ... READ MORE
An e-mail from Joe Roche, writing from Operation Iraqi Freedom: Amy, I'm reading John Steele Gordon's book on an economic history of the US. Great book, and fascinating reading. And it strikes me... What is missing in countering all the ... READ MORE
Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie is at this minute being interviewed on the Don Kroah Show on WAVA AM radio on President Bush's commutation of the sentences of jailed Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean ... READ MORE
The National Center for Public Policy Research is a communications and research foundation supportive of a strong national defense and dedicated to providing free market solutions to today’s public policy problems. We believe that the principles of a free market, individual liberty and personal responsibility provide the greatest hope for meeting the challenges facing America in the 21st century.
