Author: The National Center

Some of My Best Friends are Black: A Business Proposal, by Kevin Martin

New Visions Commentary /
Earlier this year, Al Sharpton beat up on Howard Dean during a presidential primary debate about the lack of blacks and Hispanics in Dean's cabinet when he was governor of Vermont. More recently, John Kerry has been criticized for not ...
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AARP’S Campaign to Import Uncertified Drugs Poses Hazards to Seniors’ Health and Budgets, by Ak’Bar Shabazz

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The Medicare reform legislation passed by Congress last fall brought more affordable prescription medicines to 42 million elderly and disabled beneficiaries, and AARP supported it. Now, it turns out, the aggressive seniors' mar-keting lobby had an ulterior motive. While the ...
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Reverend Al’s Campaign: When Sequels Go Bad, by Kimberley Jane Wilson

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With few exceptions, sequels are never as good as the original. That's true in movies, books and - as Al Sharpton shows us - in politics. When Sharpton first began running for president, no political commentator considered him a serious ...
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This Time, I Agree With Hollywood — Sort Of

If viewing "The Day After Tomorrow" inspires you to take action, let it be this: Go to the Envirotruth website and use the handy form to conveniently encourage Putin's Russia to stay out of the Kyoto Treaty. The Hollywood left ...
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This Time, I Agree With Hollywood — Sort Of

If viewing "The Day After Tomorrow" inspires you to take action, let it be this: Go to the Envirotruth website and use the handy form to conveniently encourage Putin's Russia to stay out of the Kyoto Treaty. The Hollywood left ...
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“A Feeling of Fear is Spreading”

An Associated Press report on the case of Russian billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky contains worrisome details: The 10-month investigation against Yukos -- the company Khodorkovsky transformed into one of Russia's largest oil producers -- and its shareholders is seen by many ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Activist Group Speaks Out on Legacy of Brown Desegregation Decision

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In observance of the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation decision, members and staff of the Project 21 African-American leadership network are available for comment. On Monday, May 17, Project 21 ...
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Legal Brief: Toxic Torts: Turning Fears to Gold; We Used to Know…; Predatory Attorneys Drive Up Malpractice Insurance Rates

Toxic Torts: Turning Fears to GoldPublic officials in the trendy seaside city of Santa Monica, Calif. have just been taught a bitter lesson: Put your faith in the trial lawyers, and the trial lawyers will take you to the cleaners ...
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A Combat Soldier Writes From Iraq: “I Ask the American People to be Brave”

Press Release /
I have just received an e-mail from Army Spc. Joe Roche, who was briefly able to take a break from the thick of the fighting against Al-Sadr's forces in Iraq to tell us what he is seeing and experiencing. Because ...
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From the Frontlines: A Combat Soldier’s View of the Iraq Prison Abuse Case

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The National Center for Public Policy Research this week has posted online two letters received from a soldier, Spc. Joe Roche, who presently serving on the front lines in Iraq. The first letter provides a glimpse of the attitude of ...
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