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Another Ethanol Problem: Fire

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From Chris Blank of the Associated Press: The nation's drive to use more alternative fuel carries a danger many communities have been slow to recognize: Ethanol fires are harder to put out than gasoline ones and require a special type ...
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Project 21’s Massie Responds to Black College Presidents in Washington Post

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From David Almasi: Last Sunday, the Washington Post published a letter to the editor from four presidents of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in Maryland, who took issue with Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow and U.S. Commission on Civil Rights ...
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Connerly Reprints Borelli

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From Deneen Borelli: Following last year's U.S. Supreme Court rejection of racial preferences in public school admissions, I wrote a New Visions Commentary for Project 21 titled "Diversity Doesn't Need To Be Forced." Ward Connerly, President of the American Civil ...
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Ethanol Subsidies, Mandates May Be Vulnerable

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David's op-ed on the many problems with ethanol continues to be picked up by newspapers (since the nine newspapers I mentioned Wednesday, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the Oakland Tribune, the Alameda Times-Star and the Argus in California have run it), and ...
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Sour Green Grapes

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David's comments, posted here last week on the primary election loss of Green Republican Representative Wayne Gilchest of Maryland, have been expanded upon and have now been published in a column on TownHall.com: It seems that Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R-MD) ...
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Fan Mail

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Our Peyton Knight was featured on BBC's Planet Earth video series. I just ran across this recent email sent to the National Center for Public Policy Research general email box from one of his fans: Mr Knight - I had ...
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Congressional Love Affair with Ethanol Leaves Others Cold

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The red-hot Congressional love affair with the alternative fuel ethanol isn't shared by conservative groups, and a new op-ed by husband David Ridenour shows some environmentalists are skeptical as well. David's piece says, in part: ..."We are witnessing the beginning ...
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Mom & Pop Pay When Corporations Play Green

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Senior Fellow Tom Borelli has had a new op-ed published in which he looks at the benefits "enjoyed" by major corporations after they join left-wing environmental coalitions. A hint: They end up being hurt by the very policies they help ...
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If Visiting CPAC…

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From Executive Director David Almasi: If you are attending this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, please be sure to say hello to Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli and National Center Senior Fellow Tom Borelli at the DemandDebate table in the ...
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Global Warming Alarmists Question the Value of Liberal Democracy

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Ms Borelli I thought your article "Global Warming Statists Threaten Our Liberty" was a satire, at first. I chuckled at the insistent defense of your unalienable right to CHOOSE an SUV rather than think of the welfare of the world ...
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