Author: The National Center

March of the Lemmings: Media Shuns Climate Change Report’s Good News on Sea Levels, by Dana Joel Gattuso

National Policy Analysis #551 /
Remember the headlines last summer, spurred by the release of Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth, warning that massive amounts of Antarctica's ice sheets are melting, threatening to raise sea levels 20 feet worldwide and wipe out Antarctica's Emperor penguins ...
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Might “Strengthening Black Families Month” Be Better Than Celebrating Black History? by La Shawn Barber

New Visions Commentary /
It's Black History Month again. Time to break out the tributes to Martin Luther King, go downtown to listen to bad poetry and look at bad art about the struggles of black folk, belt out a chorus of "We Shall ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists React to Senator Joe Biden’s Comments About Senator Barack Obama

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In calling Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) a "storybook" candidate based on his view that Biden is "articulate, bright and clean," Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) has angered members of the black leadership network Project 21, who say Biden's remarks are elitist, ...
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Is Health Care for the Poor Better Abroad

The National Center's David Hogberg has noticed a theme among left-of-center polemicists, who, when writing on health care, seem to be assuming that the poor get better health care when they live in nations with government-run systems. But is this ...
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Have Blacks Advanced in the 21st Century? by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.

New Visions Commentary /
Six years ago, I made a public plea for our community to achieve a set of goals that would move us further up the path toward full integration into American society.  I said at that time - and I still ...
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Why the “N” Word Grows in Popularity, by Jeffrey Hicks

New Visions Commentary /
The "n-word" is perhaps the most emotionally-loaded term in the English language. Throughout its history, the n-word's usage was primarily meant to dehumanize, debase and dishonor African-Americans.  In the "good old days," the word was used by bigots with either ...
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Oprah Shouldn’t Give Up on Our Kids, by Deneen Borelli

New Visions Commentary /
After visiting our nation's failing urban public schools, Oprah Winfrey felt frustrated.  In an interview with Newsweek magazine, she said:  "I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools in the U.S.  The sense that you need to learn just isn't ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Activist Takes Issue with School Choice Opposition

Press Release /
Senator Edward Kennedy's (D-MA) opposition to a proposed revision of the federal "No Child Left Behind" educational policy to allow school choice is evidence of an elitist attitude and a willingness to put the desires of the teachers' unions over ...
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Black Activist Criticizes Nagin’s Convoluted Comments to Senate Committee

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Calling his testimony a "smokescreen" to cover up his own failings at the outset of the Hurricane Katrina crisis, members of the black leadership network Project 21 are criticizing the racially-charged rhetoric of New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin (D) before ...
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Blacks Say Bush Blows Opportunity to Fight for Judges

Press Release /
President George W. Bush mentioned the importance of filling vacancies in our judicial system with qualified nominees, but he failed to use his State of the Union Address to discuss the problem of liberal obstructionism of these nominees in the ...
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