Author: The National Center

What Minorities Really Want, by John Meredith

New Visions Commentary /
Like many Americans, I've heard the pundits prognosticate over what the new leadership in Congress will do. How will they change things, will they succeed, and will they keep their majority beyond 2008? Some of these predictions specifically have addressed ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Demand for Social Security Nomination Nullification Exposes Liberal Intolerance of Reform; Project 21 Fellow Deneen Moore Cites the Need for a Wide-Ranging Examination of Ways to Save Seniors’ Financial Safety Net

Press Release /
A demand from the liberal National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare for the incoming Senate leadership to reject the nomination of a proponent of Social Security privatization indicates that liberals are unwilling to consider all possible ways to ...
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Where Do We Go From Here? by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.

New Visions Commentary /
There are many black Americans today who yearn for a more complete connection with their African ancestry. Many believe this link is necessary to complete their cultural identity. For some, this effort goes no further than wearing African attire. For ...
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The Folly and Tragedy of Section 8, by Mychal Massie

New Visions Commentary /
While traveling through a part of my community dominated by "Section 8" government-subsidized housing, I came across a group of seemingly out-of-place college students. Approaching them, I discovered they were performing community service by picking up trash in front of ...
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Michigan Voters Quit Quotas, by Deneen Moore

New Visions Commentary /
Government often discriminates by basing hiring practices, the awarding of contracts and college admissions on racial criteria. Given an opportunity to put a stop to it, Michigan voters overwhelmingly passed the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI) ballot referendum. The MCRI, ...
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Hutchinson Down About Emerging Black GOP Majority, by Darryn “Dutch” Martin

New Visions Commentary /
It's no secret that the relationship between black Americans and the Republican Party is rocky. Despite the Party's history of helping end slavery and passing civil rights legislation, the GOP's standing among blacks has fallen dramatically over the past 40 ...
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“A Poster Child for the Special Treatment of Illegal Aliens”

Mychal Massie has strong thoughts about the deportation case of Elvira Arellano ...
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Did Frank Wolf Earmark Funds to Aid His Own Legislative Initiative?

Press Release /
Washington, D.C. - The National Center for Public Policy Research is calling on U.S. Representative Frank Wolf (R-VA) to fully disclose his role in securing a $1 million earmark to the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Foundation included in last year's ...
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Did Frank Wolf Earmark Funds to Aid His Own Legislative Initiative? Group Questions $1 Million Earmark to Journey Through Hallowed Ground Foundation

Washington, D.C. - The National Center for Public Policy Research is calling on U.S. Representative Frank Wolf (R-VA) to fully disclose his role in securing a $1 million earmark to the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Foundation included in last year's ...
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Global Warming’s Chilling Effect

The global warming debate is having a chilling effect... on free speech. So says Brendan O'Neill, writing in Spiked and his own blog, Brendan O'Neill. O'Neill begins by noting that "one Australian columnist has proposed outlawing 'climate change denial'," and ...
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