Category: Project 21 New Visions

Putting Students to the Test to Make Them Go Farther, by Cherylyn Harley LeBon

New Visions Commentary /
Education experts, counselors and parents often debate the question, "How do we persuade students to start thinking about college?" The answer, according to D.C. Council Chairman Kwame R. Brown, is simple and innovative: Require all students in District schools to ...
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Why Voter ID Should Matter to Americans of All Races, by Deneen Borelli

New Visions Commentary /
The Reverend Jesse Jackson and other establishment civil rights leaders scolded South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley earlier this year, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day no less, for her state's voter identification law. They reminded her that her Indian ancestry ...
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Becoming American with a Passport, by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.

New Visions Commentary /
It is often said that people truly cannot understand the United States of America until they have thoroughly traveled the nation. I'd like to challenge that reasoning somewhat — expanding it to argue that one really cannot understand our nation ...
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Obama Pushes Unwise Energy Policy, by Deneen Borelli

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Fearing a political backlash over his rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline, President Barack Obama tried to use his State of the Union address to appease critics of his war on fossil fuels. By stealing conservatives' "all of the above" ...
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Snail Mail’s Slow Death by Government Intrusion, by Sean Turner

New Visions Commentary /
The ubiquity of email, social networking websites and other factors are causing a steady decline in the number of people using the services of the 236-year-old U.S. Postal Service. As banks, credit card and utilities companies increasingly offer online payment options, ...
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Certain Signs of Societal Decline, by Deneen Borelli

New Visions Commentary /
There were reports of babies out in the cold for hours in Houston. In Indianapolis, two dozen police officers used pepper spray to control an unruly crowd that pried shopping center doors off their hinges. These were just a few ...
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Tea Party and Occupy Protests Far From Similar, by Emery McClendon

New Visions Commentary /
Occupy Wall Street protesters are embraced by our President, lauded by members of Congress and by others as a movement that is good for America — as opposed to, in their opinion, the Tea Party movement. The Occupy effort, months ...
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Black “Leaders” Desert Blacks for Illegal Aliens, by Charles Butler

New Visions Commentary /
Self-appointed and media-approved members of the black "leadership" in America appear either silent or openly supportive when it comes to rewarding the actions of illegal immigrants. This is in direct contrast to how the civil rights establishment, black and otherwise, ...
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Silencing of the Black Conservative, by Lisa Fritsch

New Visions Commentary /
Glenn Beck was more ahead of his time than I realized in 2009 when he aired his first program to prove the existence of black conservatives. Despite Beck's assistance, we remain largely unseen on the news channels. As a black ...
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Giving the SAT to the TSA, by Cherylyn Harley LeBon

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In the past several months, there have been increasing attacks on the SAT — the college admissions-related standardized test — that include charges that it is racially and culturally biased. Additionally, activists are pushing colleges and universities to adopt a ...
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