Category: Project 21 New Visions

EPA Regulations Take Peoples’ Breath Away, by Cherylyn Harley LeBon

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Primatene Mist is an over-the-counter (OTC) inhaler that has been used safely for over 50 years by millions of people coping with asthma. It was the only non-prescription inhaler available to the public before it was banned for sale by ...
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Gabby Douglas Taking Home More Than Gold, by Djana Milton

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At the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, as American athletes are locked in a fierce battle for medals with China, chapters are closing on some household names such as Michael Phelps while youngsters who go by Missy, Rebecca and ...
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Does the Tax Man Cometh?

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In a frustrating and disappointing blow to individual liberty, the Supreme Court's four reliable liberals and Chief Justice Roberts upheld a coercive and unprecedented federal encroachment on our freedom and our nation's health insurance industry. Liberals are celebrating while conservatives ...
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Eric Holder’s Plantation, by Derryck Green

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It's said Lyndon Baines Johnson used voter fraud to win his 1948 Senate primary campaign. In 1954, then-Senator Johnson orchestrated a law prohibiting church involvement in electoral politics. Yet it was LBJ's presidential library where Attorney General Eric Holder chose ...
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ID is a Civic Responsibility, by Charles Butler

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President Obama lacks an urban agenda. Sure — he's all for policies that increase spending on food stamps, dismantle Clinton-era welfare reforms and enforce hiring quotas, but what has Obama really done to help black folk help themselves? It certainly ...
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The Antidote to the Affordable Care Act Is Non-Participation, by Elaina F. George, MD

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Since the Supreme Court upheld ObamaCare, the final piece of the puzzle is in place. America begins an inevitable slide away from patient-driven health care — individualized medicine led by independent doctors in consultation with their patients. In 1971, the ...
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Are You Better Off Today? by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.

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In 1980, asking the American people to assess President Jimmy Carter's performance, Ronald Reagan posed the question: "Are you better off [now] than you were four years ago?" It was a simple yet very important question. Today, as President Barack ...
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What, to Black Americans, is the 4th of July? by Stacy Swimp

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On July 5, 1852, the famous black abolitionist Frederick Douglass delivered a stinging indictment of American independence. He did so because it was not yet realized for black Americans. At Corinthian Hall in Rochester, New York, Douglass declared: "This Fourth ...
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Marriage is Not a Right, by Derryck Green

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May was a game-changer for the national conversation on homosexual marriage. On May 8, North Carolinans overwhelmingly voted in favor of Amendment 1. The ballot measure changed the state's constitution to define marriage as a union existing solely between a ...
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False Bravado and Feminization, by Council Nedd II

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I've had several unfortunate opportunities to observe the consequences of single mothers raising male children without the influence of positive male role models. Many boys who are raised by single moms can acquire the skills and maturity to lead healthy, ...
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