Author: The National Center

Putting Students to the Test to Make Them Go Farther, by Cherylyn Harley LeBon

New Visions Commentary /
Education experts, counselors and parents often debate the question, "How do we persuade students to start thinking about college?" The answer, according to D.C. Council Chairman Kwame R. Brown, is simple and innovative: Require all students in District schools to ...
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Why Voter ID Should Matter to Americans of All Races, by Deneen Borelli

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The Reverend Jesse Jackson and other establishment civil rights leaders scolded South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley earlier this year, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day no less, for her state's voter identification law. They reminded her that her Indian ancestry ...
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Becoming American with a Passport, by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.

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It is often said that people truly cannot understand the United States of America until they have thoroughly traveled the nation. I'd like to challenge that reasoning somewhat — expanding it to argue that one really cannot understand our nation ...
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Illegal ‘Ghost Voting’ is Worse Than a Poll Tax or Literacy Tests, Legal Expert Says, Yet Eric Holder Opposes Efforts to Stop Illegal Voting Schemes

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Attorney General is Wrong to Call Voter ID Unconstitutional, Says Horace Cooper of the National Center for Public Policy Research Washington, D.C. - Responding to a tsunami of evidence that opportunities for fraudulent voting have reached crisis levels, National Center ...
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Obama Pushes Unwise Energy Policy, by Deneen Borelli

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Fearing a political backlash over his rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline, President Barack Obama tried to use his State of the Union address to appease critics of his war on fossil fuels. By stealing conservatives' "all of the above" ...
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Defenders of Wildlife

Introduction Defenders of Wildlife (DOW) is an American non-profit organization that advocates for wildlife preservation. Defenders of Wildlife staffs over 150 scientists, policy experts and attorneys who work through the media, government, localities and the courts to advance its wildlife ...
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Governor Patrick’s Harmful Tax Increase Proposal Ignores (or Distorts) Science

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Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick this week proposed further increasing taxes on a range of products to pay for an expansion of government funded health insurance. But, ironically, says the Washington-based National Center for Public Policy Research, the taxes could have ...
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More Project 21 Reaction to Obama’s State of the Union Address

Minutes after President Obama finished his annual report to Congress, Project 21 issued a press release about how black conservatives were unimpressed with the speech due to it being “long on rhetoric and short in presenting a strategy to fix ...
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Black Conservatives Comment on Obama State of the Union Address

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Washington, D.C. - Black conservatives affiliated with the Project 21 leadership network are unimpressed with President Barack Obama's progress during his three years in office. They say Obama's State of the Union address tonight was long on rhetoric and short ...
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Supreme Court Rules Americans are Protected from “Surveillance State”

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National Center for Public Policy Research's Horace Cooper Praises Ruling, Which Was Based on Fourth Amendment to U.S. Constitution Washington, D.C. - National Center Adjunct Fellow Horace Cooper is praising the U.S. Supreme Court for its recent decision upholding the ...
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