Author: Amy Ridenour

Independents Disagree With Supreme Court Ruling

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An interesting finding in a new StrategyOne poll released today: Independents seem to be taking an especially keen interest in the recent Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act/ObamaCare. According to the poll, independents disagreed with the ruling 46%-35%, ...
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Members of Congress Have a Duty to Understand What the Constitutional Issues Surrounding ObamaCare are About

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I lost my temper at some House Democrats and Richard Trumka of the AFL-CIO in a press release earlier today, though I can't say I regret it. The gentlemen are taking the position that if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns ...
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And In Other News…

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...America's broccoli growers have just announced plans to lobby for a new tax. Along the same lines, the National Center's Steven Thomas has just announced his personal support for a new federal law requiring every citizen 18 years and older ...
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Knox v. SEIU: A Free Speech Victory Against a Tyrannical Labor Union

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The U.S. Supreme Court today handed down a victory for freedom of speech in the case of Knox. v. SEIU. The case was about whether the public employee Service Employees International Union in California could take money from those employees ...
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Supreme Court and South Carolina Versus Eric

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National Center Adjunct Fellow and Project 21 powerhouse Horace Cooper delivers a stinging indictment of the DOJ in this new analysis of South Carolina's struggle for voter ID laws. Whose decision should stand: that of the Supreme Court (and South ...
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America Cares About Proposed Soda Ban

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It may "only" be being proposed in New York, but the ban on large sodas being proposed by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is attracting national attention. The proposed ban was announced Thursday, May 31, and National Center staff members ...
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Banning Soda Restricts Freedoms for Little Good, Says Jeff Stier on CNN

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National Center Risk Analysis Division Director Jeff Stier was featured on CNN's Headline News Thursday, reacting to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's decision to seek restrictions on the sale of large beverages in the city. Said Jeff, in part: Banning ...
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Left’s New Claim: National Center is Racist for Attending Merck Shareholder Meeting (Yes, Really)

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The other day I did something I don't usually do. I left a comment on a very silly blog post suggesting that the blogger, "Condor," might want to retract his post before we got around to rebutting it, because if ...
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Liberal Who Claimed We’re Racist for Attending Merck Meeting Returns With Sexist Put-Down

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The liberal who looked at Merck and saw a black guy now looks at the National Center and sees... a woman. As Condor said (backstory here), "One of these guys is not like the others... one of these guys, just ...
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Virginia Adopts Voter ID

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National Center for Public Policy Research adjunct fellow and legal commentator Horace Cooper today issued the following statement concerning the Voter ID legislation signed into law by Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell: Governor McDonnell and the state of Virginia are to ...
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