Category: Blog

Volunteering for Dollars

In Al Hunt's Wall Street Journal column today, he complains about inadequate federal funding for AmericCorps volunteers. If they need funding, why are they called "volunteers"? ...
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Jesse Jackson: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

CNSNews.com just published a short story about Project 21's press release of earlier today. Jesse Jackson Urged to Sponsor Black Race Car Driver (CNSNews.com) - A conservative African-American leadership network says Jesse Jackson should put his money where his mouth ...
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Dissent

Not everyone agrees with my rosy picture of Senator Hatch's work on a solution to the asbestos crisis. "D.C." e-mailed me to write, in part: "Please read today's WSJ editorial: Senator Hatch's long-awaited 'reform' makes things worse. This contrived issue ...
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Choosing to Chew – Why Do Advocates of Choice Draw the Line at Tobacco?

Annette Niebelski has an interesting point on the Capital Research Center website today: Anti-smoking advocates don't want you to compare the health risks of smoking and using smokeless tobacco because they oppose all tobacco use. They tout a study in ...
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Make Way for Ducklings

"The one woman will throw herself into traffic to save baby ducks, but promotes human abortions as a career." -Our executive director, David Almasi, commenting on a June 28 Washington Post story about the communications director of the National Abortion ...
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The Last Bastion of White Supremacy

Members of Project 21, the conservative black organization that has been sponsored by The National Center since 1992, have announced their support for the National Legal and Policy Center's call to NASCAR to cease its support for Jesse Jackson. According ...
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Sue Me Before I Speak Again

The June 30 Wall Street Journal editorial page reports that after a group of tort reform advocates held a press conference recently, the speakers were immediately subpoenaed by a firm of trial lawyers. The press conference was about class action ...
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Public Access to Yosemite National Park

Bonner Cohen, who just joined the National Center as a senior fellow after leaving the Lexington Institute, has a new piece on our website discussing the National Park Service's Yosemite Plan. It seems the Park Service wants to spend $442 ...
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Meanwhile, ABC Still Refers to These Bozos as “U.S. Allies”

Gerhard Schroeder says calls within Germany for Germans to join forces in Iraq trying to help Iraq become a stable democracy make him "want to puke." Jacques Chirac, however, thinks a few oil contracts are worth a puke ...
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ESPN: Hypocrites, and Yes, I Can Prove It

I'm posting very little of my email on the Rush Limbaugh controversy because there is too much of it (a lot of which calls conservatives a bunch of names while complaining about name-calling, amusingly enough), but I will address one ...
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