Category: Published Commentaries

NFL's Rooney Rule Runs Amok in the Corporate Boardroom

NFL’s Rooney Rule Runs Amok in the Corporate Boardroom

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts once wrote that the "way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race." He wrote those words in a 2007 opinion that turned back Seattle's race-based ...
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Disney's Mickey Mouse Attempt To Silence Critics At Its Shareholder Meeting Backfires

Disney’s Mickey Mouse Attempt To Silence Critics At Its Shareholder Meeting Backfires

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Disney CEO Bob Iger's preferred presidential candidate in 2016, Hillary Clinton, suffered a humiliating defeat to Donald Trump despite obvious support from the mainstream media. Perhaps the most egregious example of media bias was when then-CNN analyst Donna Brazile effectively ...
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In Gun Debate, Big Business Lines Up Yet Again As Left’s Guns For Hire

In Gun Debate, Big Business Lines Up Yet Again As Left’s Guns For Hire

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Liberals in need of patsies to carry their water need look no further than the nearest Fortune 500 company these days, and conservatives continue to give these big businesses a pass at their peril. Corporate America has become the muscle ...
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I Confronted Google About Its Liberal Groupthink At A Shareholder Meeting — Here's What Happened Next

I Confronted Google About Its Liberal Groupthink At A Shareholder Meeting — Here’s What Happened Next

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In the name of diversity, Google just killed diversity. While that may sound like a sentence out of a Lewis Carroll novel, it's the stark reality of the modern-day liberal groupthink that pervades much of America's academic and corporate cultures ...
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The Financial Choice Act — A Bad Omen For Increased Liberal Corporate Influence

The Financial Choice Act — A Bad Omen For Increased Liberal Corporate Influence

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The law of unintended consequences explains away outcomes difficult to see at the beginning of specific and well-intended actions.  In the realm of politics, however, some results are so obvious that politicians should not be allowed to fall back on ...
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Four Obama Regulations Trump Can Undo Right Away

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President-elect Trump's pledge to "drain the swamp" in Washington struck a chord with millions of Americans and helped propel him to his stunning election as the nation's 45th president.Trump can start by reversing many of the laws the Obama administration ...
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Zoinks! McDonald’s Is Getting Hamburgled!

Zoinks! McDonald’s Is Getting Hamburgled!

Free Enterprise Project Commentaries /
The famous villain of McDonald’s, the Hamburglar, would attempt to rob Ronald, Grimace and other company favorites of their beloved burgers—always unsuccessfully. Bad news: The Hamburglar is back, in a new guise, and he’s after more than burgers. The new ...
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