Author: The National Center

Everybody Pays for Single Parenthood – In More Ways Than One, by Darryn “Dutch” Martin

New Visions Commentary /
As a product of a poverty-stricken single-parent home, I know first-hand about the negative baggage that growing up poor and fatherless can breed. Numerous studies note that children born and raised in fatherless, single-parent homes are much more likely to ...
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A Charity Bill That Would Keep People from Giving, by Deneen Borelli

New Visions Commentary /
Despite our society's significant strides in accepting blacks and other minorities, supporters of race and gender preferences continue to try to perpetuate 1950s attitudes by creatively developing new concerns.  Their goal: to expand preferential treatment policies. In California, private, public ...
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NCPPR’s Almasi Comments on CAFE in National Review

In the May 5 print edition of National Review, Fred Schwarz described how the catalytic converter was perfected just as automakers faced potentially crippling federal emissions requirements. Liberals cite this as proof that all that is needed to make technological ...
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Black Activists Rap Cesar Chavez Earmark Bill; President Bush to Decide if Taxpayer Funds Will Honor Militant Activist Whose Followers Used Violence as “Organizing” Tactic

Press Release /
Washington, D.C. - Black activists with the Project 21 black leadership network are highly critical of legislation that would open the floodgates for taxpayer spending to honor the questionable legacy of the late labor activist Cesar Chavez.  Project 21 members ...
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Why No Black Faces on Greenbacks? by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.

New Visions Commentary /
Since before we were a nation, blacks have contributed mightily to the development of what is now the United States.  From mining to the space program, black Americans today serve integral roles in our society, leading in fields such as ...
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Conservation Easements: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, by Dana Joel Gattuso

National Policy Analysis #569 /
Introduction Conservation easements, as we know them today, are a fairly recent approach to land conservation. As government acquisitions and regulatory restrictions on land use have become prohibitively invasive, costly, and ineffective, governments have looked to conservation easements as a ...
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Wright Comments Hurt Black Churches, by Deneen Borelli

New Visions Commentary /
Black churches are facing a threat to their very existence. A few years ago, there were unsubstantiated fears of a campaign of physical destruction by arsonists.  There is also the danger every election year of liberal politicians using black pulpits ...
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Supreme Court Endorsement of Photo ID Election Rule Hailed by Black Activists

Press Release /
Project 21 and the Center for Equal Opportunity Had Presented an Amici Curiae in Case Washington, D.C. - Today's U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding Indiana's photo identification election law is hailed by black activists from the Project 21 leadership network ...
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World Malaria Day Marked By Call for Action; Millions at Risk

Press Release /
Washington, D.C. - In observance of the very first "World Malaria Day," an activist with the Project 21 black leadership network is calling upon establishment environmentalist groups and global health administrators to rethink their opposition to the use of the ...
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Green Politicization of Iwo Jima Photo Condemned by Black Veteran

Press Release /
Washington, D.C. - Kevin L. Martin, a member of the Project 21 black leadership network and a U.S. Navy veteran, is joining fellow veterans in denouncing the Earth Day-related cover art on the April 21 issue of Time magazine.  Time ...
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