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Project 21’s Stacy Swimp to Interview South Carolina Attorney General Tonight — Listen Live

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Project 21 member Stacy Swimp is scheduled to interview South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson on Wednesday, January 25.  The interview will be broadcast on the “Project 21 Speaks” segment of Stacy’s “Contagious Transformation” show on blogtalkradio. The show airs ...
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Fighting Senseless Sin Taxes in Maryland: “There’s good reason for lower taxes on smokeless tobacco”

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My letter to the editor in The Baltimore Sun challenges the paper’s editorial support for a proposal to raise sin-taxes on smokeless tobacco to the same (nearly confiscatory) rate as on cigarettes, which are far more harmful. I write, Your ...
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Pepsi Settles Invented Discrimination Claim

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Over the last few weeks, I have been warning employers that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has invented a new form of discrimination that may place companies at risk of federal lawsuits.  Through an informal guidance letter, the EEOC recently suggested that having ...
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Project 21’s Hollis has an Old Commentary on a New Movie

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“Red Tails,” the new movie from producer George Lucas about the black airmen who fought Germans in the air and racial animosity back at home during World War II, opens in theaters today.  A trailer for the film can be ...
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NAACP Drags MLK Street Names into the Gutter in Assault on Microsoft

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Heard the story about Microsoft’s “Avoid the Ghetto” app that tells people not to go to Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard? There’s more to it than the sensational headlines and the complaints of at least one local NAACP official. Microsoft ...
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Jarrett’s Partisan Rant Should Put IRS Rule in Spotlight

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Last Sunday, helping commemorate the upcoming Martin Luther King holiday, Obama Administration senior advisor Valerie Jarrett took part in a service held at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.  From the pulpit of Dr. King’s former church, Jarrett made a ...
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Thomas Edison, Call Your Office

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The Washington Post reports that a Maryland fluorescent light bulb recycler has pleaded guilty to ten felony counts of mishandling mercury, posing "serious threats" to workers. Keep in mind that consumers who use compact fluorescent bulbs, often referred to as ...
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Tom Borelli to Discuss National Center’s Apple Shareholder Proposal on FBN at 10 PM Eastern

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Tom Borelli, director of the National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project, will discuss the National Center's Apple shareholder proposal on the Fox Business Network tonight at 10 PM Eastern. Earlier today, we issued a press release asking ...
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Project 21’s Stacy Swimp on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Personal Responsibility

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Here are some words of wisdom from Project 21 spokesman Stacy Swimp about properly commemorating Martin Luther King Day.  They are taken from an interview that Stacy gave to Michigan Live in 2011 after he spoke at a King Day ...
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When Bureaucrats Stymie Science

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In an article in Defining Ideas, a journal of the Hoover Institution, former senior Food and Drug Administration official (and Hoover Fellow) Dr. Henry I. Miller and I examine problems with how the government is making an important decision about ...
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