Author: The National Center

Free-Market Activist Challenges Honeywell Over How Millions in Stimulus Money was Spent

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Honeywell CEO "Comfortable" Taking $25 Million from Taxpayers to Create Only Ten Jobs Shareholder Calls Out Honeywell's Hypocrisy for Complaining About the National Debt While Taking Millions from the Taxpayers Morris Township, NJ / Washington, D.C. - This morning, at ...
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Congress Updating The Antiquated Antiquities Act of 1906, by Teresa Platt

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The House Resources Committee, Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation, held a fascinating hearing on efforts to update the antiquated Antiquities Act of 1906. Congressman Rob Bishop of Utah did an excellent job chairing the hearing. The room was ...
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Wind Turbines: New Study Documents High Bird and Bat Kills

The Wildlife Society Bulletin just published a selection of studies on Wind Energy and Wildlife Conservation including an important new study by Dr. K. Shawn Smallwood, “Comparing Bird and Bat Fatality-Rate Estimates Among North American Wind Energy Projects.” Smallwood earned ...
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Arizona Urges Congress To Update The ESA

Members of the Arizona State Legislature recently passed Concurrent Resolution 1013 urging the U.S. Congress to update the Endangered Species Act (ESA): …to improve its effectiveness in protecting and recovering Arizona’s threatened and endangered species. The ESA, passed in 1973, ...
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Toppling Turbines: It’s Harder Than It Looks, by Teresa Platt

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Responding to citizens’ complaints, Falmouth, Massachusetts is the first U.S. municipality to attempt to remove its wind turbines. While it’s united in its resolve to topple its two 400-foot industrial turbines, Wind 1 and Wind 2, Falmouth is, however, daunted ...
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Project 21’s Butler on “Hannity”: Paul Visit to Howard Was “Courageous”

Project 21 member Charles Butler, in a debate with Michael Meyers of the New York Civil Rights Coalition about the impact of Senator Rand Paul’s recent speech at the traditionally-black Howard University, called Paul’s conservative outreach effort to minorities “a ...
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Keep Your Health Plan and Doctor Under ObamaCare? No, One Lady Finds

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President Obama Promised It, But One Young Woman Facing Surgery May Be Out of Luck Washington, D.C. - President Obama's promise that Americans can keep both their health plan and their doctor under ObamaCare is being broken, says David Hogberg, ...
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Black Leader Calls on Congressional Black Caucus to Disband

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Wants Lawmakers to"Represent All of the American People" Washington, D.C. - In a just-released video, Michigan activist Stacy Swimp of the Project 21 black leadership network is calling upon the Congressional Black Caucus to disband. Swimp says lawmakers have a ...
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Bringing Voting Rights Law into the 21st Century, by Cherylyn Harley LeBon

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In the general election of 1964, racial discrimination existed that made it harder for minorities to vote. Conditions were considered so bad in nine states and portions of six others that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 included a "extreme ...
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Dr. Carson’s Comments Appropriate for President to Hear, by Kevin Martin

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It didn't take long for Dr. Ben Carson, the world-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon, to become public enemy number one among liberal circles. At the recent National Prayer Breakfast, in a speech he gave in the presence of President Obama, Dr. Carson ...
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