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Congress Must Investigate CDC Lobbying Grants

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My op-ed (registration required) in today’s Roll Call, calls on legislators to exercise oversight on the Obama administration’s illegal use of taxpayer dollars to lobby local governments. The time has come for Congressional oversight hearings focused on how the Centers ...
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Selective Outrage for Diversity Disasters at NBC

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Jordyn Wieber, the world’s current all-around women’s gymnastics champion, will not win a medal in that event at the XXX Olympics in London. It’s not that she didn’t compete or that she didn’t train.  She did, and she did well ...
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Bloomberg Berates Moms Rather Than Busting Crooks

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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg already earned the criticism of policy experts from National Center and Project 21 twice this year for his nanny-state regulations regarding food donations to the poor and the sale of large fountain sodas in ...
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Nanny Bloomberg is Now Regulating Breasts, and Not in a Kind Way

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It was just a matter of time before New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, best known outside of New York for his regulation of what people put in their mouths (see here and here and here), turned his attention to breast ...
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Obama More Concerned with Growing Government Than Growing the Economy

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Despite continued dismal economic news, such as today’s report from the Commerce Department that America’s GDP only grew by 1.5 percent between April and June, President Obama seems to remain upbeat.  He appears to think his economic plan, to take ...
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Project 21 Members Tear Down Obama’s “You Didn’t Build That” Argument

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First, President Obama recently assured Americans that “[t]he private sector is doing fine.”  Then, after a lackluster jobs report that heralded the 41st month of unemployment over eight percent, he said it was “a step in the right direction.” But ...
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Pennsylvania Voter Disfranchisement Claims Much Ado About Nothing

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A new report out of Pennsylvania says there are more than 750,000 people on the voter list there who don’t have driver’s licenses.  But, contrary to the assertions of breathless media reports on the disparity and the cries of ballot ...
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Shrinking Defense Budget In a Dangerous World Requires Savvy Strategy

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As I write in a piece for The Hill’s Congress blog today, at a time when budgets are tight and risks are high, we need a smarter missile defense approach than the one President Obama calls for in his budget ...
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Discussion About Douglass Differentiates Dour Liberals from Lively Conservatives

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In his 2008 book Makers and Takers, Hoover Institution fellow (and National Center board member) Peter Schweizer concluded in part that being liberal or conservative is “not simply [about] political ideologies, but represent ways of life.”  Conservatives, he suggested, are ...
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MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Claims to Be Non-Partisan After National Center Brings Up Bias to Her Boss

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Back in May, I asked Comcast CEO Brian Roberts to look into a particular broadcast of the “Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC in which Maddow potentially libeled the National Center for Public Policy Research.  Roberts pledged to look into Maddow’s ...
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