Author: The National Center

76% of African-Americans Want Delay on Climate Legislation Until Economy Recovers, Just-Released Nationwide Poll of Black Community Finds

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Washington, DC - In light of the ABC World News program's decision to host a "Town Hall" meeting on health care at the White House without opposition participation, the National Center for Public Policy Research is making a list of ...
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Black Activists Call Senate Slavery Apology “Useless”; Say It Will Empower the Call for Reparations

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Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Senate resolution apologizing for slavery and segregation will be used as a lobbying tool to acquire reparations payments, say members of the black leadership network Project 21.  The group urges the Senate to "move on," ...
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Black Conservatives Warn of Threat to Continued Freedom on “Juneteenth” Civil Rights Holiday

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Washington, D.C. - On the occasion of “Juneteenth,” the oldest and most recognized annual commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States, members of the Project 21 black leadership network suggest the civil rights-themed holiday be used to ...
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Black Leader Criticizes Voting Rights Act Supreme Court Compromise

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Justices Note “Serious Constitutional Concerns,” Yet Do Nothing to Fix Problem Washington, D.C. - A failure by the U.S. Supreme Court to act decisively to fix an inherent problem within the Voting Rights Act is drawing the condemnation of the ...
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Caterpillar CEO Commits to Pro-Cap-and-Trade Lobbying Course While Admitting Risk to USA and His Own Corporation; Says Stockholders Who Object Can Just Sell Their Stock

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Washington, DC - Caterpillar CEO James Owens admitted Wednesday at his company's annual stockholder meeting that the carbon caps his company supports could hurt the U.S., U.S. heavy industry and Caterpillar itself. Owens made the admission in response to questioning ...
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A Call for Transparency in Lobbying: Caterpillar Management Challenged on Support for Climate Legislation at Stockholder Meeting

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Washington, DC - Tom Borelli, director of the Free Enterprise Project of the National Center for Public Policy Research, is confronting Caterpillar Inc. management at the corporation's shareholder's meeting in Chicago Wednesday, asking the corporation to increase the transparency of ...
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Move Over Chris Matthews

...the "thrilling running up your leg" has just been outdone, and by a guest on Hardball, no less. Newsweek Editor Evan Thomas announces that Barack Obama is "sort of God" (link includes video clip). In the same comment, Thomas calls ...
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Racism is Not the Cause of Health Disparities, by Jeffery Temple

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  Racism is Not the Cause of Health Disparities by Jeffery Temple (bio) In 2002, a congressionally-commissioned report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) determined health disparities between whites and minorities were caused by racial bias in America's health care ...
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The Liberal Version of Harriet Miers, by Mychal Massie

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  The Liberal Version of Harriet Miers by Mychal Massie (bio) Here we go again with all the hubbub over race, sex and ethnicity. I care no more about the sex, ethnicity or life story of President Obama's nominee to ...
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Obama’s Real Religion: Politics, by Deneen Borelli

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Enlightened Intolerance an Enemy of Democracy by Bishop Council Nedd II (bio) Just before last year's elections, I was dismayed to hear police speaking openly at a local restaurant about potential violence no matter who won the White House. Where ...
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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.