Author: The National Center

Zales Executives Claim Ignorance on Jobs-Killing Pledge Despite Potential to Harm American Workers, American Security and National Sovereignty

Press Release /
Jeweler Will "Look Into" Its Past Endorsement of Radical Environmental Boycott of American Gold and Other Precious Metals from Alaska's Pebble Mine Irving, TX / Washington, D.C. - Today, at the Zales annual meeting of shareholders in Irving, Texas, National ...
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Why Can Costas Speak, But Not Limbaugh?

Salon magazine this afternoon is asking the silly question, Why can Limbaugh speak, but not Costas? It is Rush Limbaugh who is banned from speaking, not Bob Costas. Salon’s David Sirota has a long introduction to his argument (which you ...
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Chemical Fight Offers Early Look at Obama’s Second-Term EPA

In an op-ed in today’s Washington Examiner, I explain how the second Obama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency will seek to use sound bites, rather than sound science, to pursue an agenda of more excessive and more costly regulation. And when ...
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Conservation Easements and the Anti-Farm Farm Bill, by Dana J. Gattuso

National Policy Analysis #645 /
The September 30th deadline has come and gone, and Congress has not passed a new farm bill. And while farm special interests bemoan that Congress fiddled while Rome burns, the outcome is actually good for American taxpayers who would have ...
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Welcome to the Doctor’s Office — Your Papers Please, by Cherylyn Harley LeBon

New Visions Commentary /
I recently took my daughter to our pediatric ophthalmologist — a physician she has seen for several years, and with whom we have a very good relationship. At this appointment, however, the receptionist gave me three new forms to fill ...
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Obama, Sharpton and Black America’s Downward Spiral, by Darryn “Dutch” Martin

New Visions Commentary /
As a conservative, President Barack Obama's reelection was one of the most disappointing experiences of my life. As a black American, my sorrow was only amplified. Just look at President Obama's economic track record. Look at the unemployment rate during ...
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Saving Sarah From the Egyptian Salafis, by Archbishop Council Nedd II & Deacon J.T. Griffin

New Visions Commentary /
Almost six months into the reign of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, many people in the West and even Egypt lament the "Arab Spring" overthrow of long-time dictator Hosni Mubarak. America and Mubarak shared a concern for anti-Western Muslim fundamentalists seeking ...
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Jovan, Jason and Jumping to Conclusions, by Derryck Green

New Visions Commentary /
Jason Whitlock started it, and Jason Whitlock can end it. On December 1, the Fox Sports columnist penned a column about what happened earlier that morning when Jovan Belcher — the starting linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs — murdered ...
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Life, Liberty and Happiness, by Archbishop Council Nedd II

New Visions Commentary /
In an increasingly secular America — where moral absolutes have vanished — it is not surprising that same-sex marriage referendums recently passed in Maryland, Washington and Maine. After all, noted theologian N.T. Wright said, "by itself, human reason can no ...
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2012 Hurricane Season Ends: NOAA Prediction WRONG AGAIN!

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Worse: FOIA Documents Revealed Today for the First Time Suggest NOAA May Have Cheated to Win "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader" Hurricane Forecast "Bet" Against Elementary School Students in 2011 Washington, D.C. - The 2012 hurricane season officially ...
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