Category: Published Commentaries

Diversity DEI discrimination

States Can Stop the Outsourcing of Race Discrimination by Corporations

FEP Commentary /
Last week The Federalist published an important story detailing how various companies are “laundering” or “out-sourcing” their efforts to discriminate against so-called “non-diverse” employees on the basis of race, sex and orientation to non-profits, charities and public benefit corporations. It reported that [i]n response to ...
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Melissa Ortiz: Oh, the Places I Might Go!

Melissa Ortiz: Oh, the Places I Might Go!

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A longtime lover of all things Dr. Seuss, one of my favorite books is “Oh, the Places You Will Go!” It is a popular gift for graduations and other milestone celebrations, but it resonates with me because it is all ...
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Illegal Immigration Makes Black Americans Less Safe

Illegal Immigration Makes Black Americans Less Safe

Project 21 Commentary /
by Horace Cooper and Tom Homan For the last several years, there has been significant media attention paid to our nation’s struggle with immigration, with much of the focus on our southern border and the impact on the nation as ...
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Sneaky businessman Executive Self Dealing

Frustrate the New Discrimination With National Declaration Day

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Conservatives have for some time taken to quoting Saul Alinsky that would-be reformers should “[m]ake the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” Often the quote is deployed in tandem with frustration at how hard it is to do that ...
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carbon emissions

Scott Shepard: If Carbon Emissions Are ‘Material Disclosures,’ So Is Everything Else

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Recent reports suggest that Gary Gensler, the hard-left Chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), has realized that his proposed carbon-disclosure rule is so sweeping and costly as to guarantee that the courts will strike it down. He is now mulling ...
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The Wokification of Corporate Life Is No Kind of Capitalism

The Wokification of Corporate Life Is No Kind of Capitalism

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Concerns about ChatGPT – which is an amazing new artificial-intelligence program that can write better than the average Buzzfeed writer and perhaps (a harder test) the average undergraduate (unless it’s just a mirage) – sparked concern among both writers, who realized that they ...
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Larry Fink BlackRock

With Davos 2023 Wrapped, How To Cease Being a Comic Book Villain

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I was told recently by someone in a position to know that Larry Fink has been hurt by my having referred to him in these pages as a comic-book villain. My first reaction, this insight arising in a discussion with ...
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Melissa Ortiz: Lost Lessons of the Holocaust

Melissa Ortiz: Lost Lessons of the Holocaust

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Friday, the 27th of January, is Holocaust Remembrance Day. The theme this year is “Memory, Dignity and Justice.” It’s fitting in so many ways, especially when the first victims of the Holocaust are considered. As part of a trip to ...
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JPMorgan

Is Jamie Dimon Aware of the Partisan Double Standard Inside His Bank?

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Vis Raghavan, co-head of global investment banking at JPMorgan Chase, reported recently that most of the company’s employees had returned to working in the office. Maybe it’s time for CEO Jamie Dimon to spend a little more time there as well, as ...
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BlackRock

BlackRock Accidentally Admits Role In Reversal of Economic Good Times

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In its 2023 Global Outlook, BlackRock rued the close of what it called the Great Moderation, the 40-odd years since the policies of Reagan and Thatcher brought forth from the malaise of inflation and stagnation a great flourishing of human creativity ...
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