Category: Blog
The Will Smith Standard and the Downfall of Consequences
Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper has often pointed out: “If it wasn’t for double-standards, the left would have no standards at all.” And now the left appears to be embracing a standard perfectly befitting its mindset. Let it henceforth be ...
Will Smith – Chris Rock Oscar Assault Gets Black Conservatives Talking
Movies like “Raging Bull,” “Rocky” and “On the Waterfront” have won Academy Awards in the past, but actor Will Smith brought real-life pugilism to this year’s Oscars ceremonies. He punched and yelled at comedian Chris Rock after Rock made a ...
Will Smith – Chris Rock Oscars Debacle Exposes Hollywood Hypocrisy
After actor Will Smith jumped onstage and smacked comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars for a joke Rock made about Smith’s wife’s hair (or lack of it – she suffers from alopecia), the media began defending Smith. On NBC’s “Today” ...
Labor’s Climate Agenda Harms Everyday Americans
In February, President Biden’s Labor Department published a Request for Information (RFI), seeking public comment on the agency’s “future work relating to retirement savings and climate-related financial risk.” What’s the impetus for publishing such a broad and peculiar RFI? Why, ...
The SEC’s Climate-Disclosure Proposal Politicizes Corporate Oversight
In his latest column for Real Clear Markets, Free Enterprise Project (FEP) Director Scott Shepard discusses proposed environmental regulation being considered by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). “The deepest danger that arises from this proposed rule," Scott writes, ...
For-Profits Targeted as White House Ignores Woke College Follies
Traditional universities offer their students degrees in gender studies, peace studies and programs in sexuality. Graduates often leave with massive debts and perhaps not so many job prospects. Yet the Biden Administration has its ire set not on these schools, ...
Energy War on the Poor
As the price of a gallon of gasoline skyrockets, Biden Administration officials like Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg have argued that a simple solution is to buy an electric car. The problem with this only starts with the fact that a ...
Corporate America’s Backwards View of Equity
“Corporate America’s panicked embrace of ‘equity’ in the summer of 2020 isn’t going to end well for anyone, most particularly the companies that have embraced it the hardest,” writes Free Enterprise Project (FEP) Director Scott Shepard in his latest commentary for ...
Biden Must “Jettison” Concession to Iranian Terror
In an effort to reach a settlement to reinstate the alleged 2015 nuclear weapons deal with Iran, the Biden Administration is reportedly negotiating to remove Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from the U.S. State Department’s “Foreign Terrorist Organizations” list. On ...
Cancelling Cap and Trade Good for Environment
Approaching the task from multiple angles, Governor Glenn Youngkin is moving forward on removing Virginia from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). The governor’s office said the policies promoted by the state-level regulatory partnership levy an “unfair burden… on Virginia ...
