Author: Scott Shepard

How To Apply Reciprocity To Race-Based Accusations

How To Apply Reciprocity To Race-Based Accusations

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Americans, especially traditionally middle-class Americans, are by and large likeable people who like to be liked.  Our friendliness, along with our self-confidence, loudness, and sneakers-and-ballcaps attire (and, sadly, our girth), set us apart worldwide.  As a corollary, we hate to ...
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Genuine Objectivity Could Save Some News Industry Players

Genuine Objectivity Could Save Some News Industry Players

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Conditions in the news industry are grim. Even before the COVID crisis, the industry was in deep trouble. The pandemic and shutdown have made things worse.  And now some outlets’ responses to the demands of the sometimes-so-intensely-peaceful-they-riot “protestors” promises to ...
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When Will ABC’s False Reporting Require Daddy Disney’s Discipline?

When Will ABC’s False Reporting Require Daddy Disney’s Discipline?

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
ABC, like the rest of the former news industry, has devolved from often left-slanted reporting to outright leftwing propaganda. So goes the modern American media. But at what point does this divergence between claimed truth and real fiction violate parent-company ...
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Some Questions For BOA’s Billion-Dollar Brian Moynihan

Some Questions For BOA’s Billion-Dollar Brian Moynihan

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Brian Moynihan, the monumentally self-impressed CEO of Bank of America (BoA), announced last week that the bank would be “committing” $1 billion over the next four years to “assist people and communities of color” in view of “racial injustices.” At ...
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CEOs Need To Focus On Rebuilding Shareholder Value, Not Rebranding The Redskins

CEOs Need To Focus On Rebuilding Shareholder Value, Not Rebranding The Redskins

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
The CEOs of some of the biggest American corporations, including PepsiCo, FedEx and Bank of America, spent the recent Independence Day weekend trying to cancel the names of the Washington Redskinsand Cleveland Indians. The qualifications of these CEOs to force other organizations ...
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If You Want To Defund Something, Start With Higher Education

If You Want To Defund Something, Start With Higher Education

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
If we’re going to defund major American institutions, the place to start is not the police but higher education. America’s colleges and universities have largely abandoned their genuine mission in favor of polemics and proselytization, while slamming the door to ...
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After Labor Department’s Wise Move, Time To Hold Public Pension Fund Managers To A Return-Maximization Standard As Well

After Labor Department’s Wise Move, Time To Hold Public Pension Fund Managers To A Return-Maximization Standard As Well

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia recently announced a proposed rule to require private pension fund managers to maximize risk-appropriate returns rather than indulge their personal policy preferences when selecting investments. When so much of corporate America is mouthing ill-considered platitudes while ...
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Stakeholder Primacy: Who’s Playing Whom?

Stakeholder Primacy: Who’s Playing Whom?

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Last summer the Business Roundtable – a body comprised of CEOs of many of the country’s largest corporations – voted to reinterpret its theory of the corporation to give its members a massive increase in latitude and cut in oversight ...
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COVID-19 Model Failures Show Why Climate Science Isn’t ‘Settled’

COVID-19 Model Failures Show Why Climate Science Isn’t ‘Settled’

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
The scientific models used to predict the global impact of the COVID-19 crisis have cast into acute doubt the idea of iron-clad, unquestionable scientific modeling itself. Model failure has had potentially catastrophic effects on the world economy. It should have ...
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Under a Fog of Pablum, Google Promises to Keep Censoring Conservative Content

Under a Fog of Pablum, Google Promises to Keep Censoring Conservative Content

ConservativeBlog.org /
Alphabet's virtual annual shareholder meeting today started off in the partisan manner you would expect of Google's parent company: CEO Sundar Pichai commiserating with the protests against police mistreatment of blacks and minorities, without spending a moment to consider police ...
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