Author: The National Center

A (Brief) E-Mail Response from GE

An individual whose signature line identified him as a tax analyst for GE based in Ft. Myers, Florida sent along one of the shortest blog comments possible: a link to a page on GE's website, with no accompanying commentary. The ...
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Outrage of the Day: Loving Castro

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Members of the Congressional Black Caucus met with brutal dictator Fidel Castro and fell in love. Read these quotes American Thinker collected from Representatives Laura Richardson (D-CA), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) and Bobby Rush (D-IL), if you think ...
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Green Trumps Black and White for Television Diversity, by Devon Carlin

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Green Trumps Black and White for Television Diversity by Devon Carlin Complaints about a racial "white-out" on television are common, but are they valid? As network executives contemplate fall schedules, they undoubtedly have the concerns of the NAACP on their ...
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Disconnect on Accuracy Doesn’t Add Up, by Jeffery Temple

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Disconnect on Accuracy Doesn't Add Up by Jeffery Temple (bio) Remember how important every vote was in the 2000 election?  Back then, and in subsequent close elections, the message has been that every vote counts. Imagine that those votes were ...
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World Peace Comes Through Strength, by Ak’Bar A. Shabazz

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  World Peace Comes Through Strength by Ak'Bar A. Shabazz (bio) Imagine if, when local governments meet to create a budget for their police departments, they entertain requests from criminals against buying bulletproof vests and other protective gear. After all, ...
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Anti-Gun Laws Favor Criminals, by Mychal Massie

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Anti-Gun Laws Favor Criminals by Mychal Massie (bio) On April 3, three Pittsburgh cops were brutally murdered in the line of duty. Eric Kelly, Stephen Mayhle and Paul Sciullo II were senselessly murdered while responding to a domestic violence call.  ...
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Conservative Black Group Challenges Liberal Urban League’s “State of Black America 2009” Report

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Washington, DC - This year’s edition of the liberal National Urban League's annual State of Black America report fails to effectively challenge the Obama Administration, is unnecessarily dreary and makes recommendations that would be harmful, say members of the conservative ...
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Outrage of the Day: Waxman Drags Feet on Needed CPSIA Reform

Today's Outrage of the Day to Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), for his refusal to hold hearings on the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA), legislation adopted last year (see this blog's prior coverage here and here) that has ...
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Disney Spokesman Denies CEO Used “F-Bomb” to Conservative Activist

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Washington, DC - Columnist Tommy Christopher at the AOL News website "Political Machine" reported Wednesday that a spokesman for the Walt Disney Company has denied that Disney CEO Robert Iger said "f--- you" to conservative activist Tom Borelli at the ...
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Statement of Senior Fellow R.J. Smith on the Defeat of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act (S. 22) on the House Floor Wednesday

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"The Democrat leadership's omnibus land lock-up bill to shut down oil, gas and coal exploration and production in the midst of a recession and a domestic energy shortage -- and to prevent the public from using their lands by placing ...
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