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Caterpillar CEO Confronted at Company Stockholder Meeting for Joining Environmentalist Lobbying Group

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Washington, D.C. - The National Center for Public Policy Research and the Project 21 black leadership network challenged senior Caterpillar, Inc. officials at the company's stockholder meeting Wednesday, asking them to explain Caterpillar's decision to join the United States Climate ...
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Activists to Demand Explanations from Caterpillar at Stockholder Meeting Wednesday

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Deneen Borelli of the African-American group Project 21 will confront Caterpillar Inc. management at the corporation's shareholder's meeting Wednesday, demanding it explain why it joined the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), which lobbies for energy restrictions on the U.S. economy ...
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Letter: Letter to Caterpillar CEO James Owens

June 12, 2007 Mr. James W. Owens Chief Executive Officer Caterpillar, Inc. 100 North East Adams Street Peoria, IL 61629 Dear Mr. Owens, You recently acknowledged that excessive regulations harm Caterpillar’s bottom line, noting in your 2006 Annual Report to ...
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70-Plus Groups Confront Caterpillar on Eve of Shareholder Meeting

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Washington, D.C. - On the eve of the Caterpillar Corporation's stockholders meeting in Chicago, 70+ groups and companies have sent a letter to Caterpillar, Inc.  CEO Jim Owens urging him to immediately withdraw Caterpillar from the United States Climate Action ...
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Wynton C. Hall’s Speechwriter Anecdote: Here’s Hoping His Source Made It Up

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June 12, 2007 Mr. James W. Owens Chief Executive Officer Caterpillar, Inc. 100 North East Adams Street Peoria, IL 61629 Dear Mr. Owens, You recently acknowledged that excessive regulations harm Caterpillar’s bottom line, noting in your 2006 Annual Report to ...
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Health Insurance is Not Health Care

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David Hogberg reminds politicians of something they should already know in an op-ed in the Washington Times today: Politicians and pundits lump the terms "health care" and "health insurance" together as though they are the same thing. For example, Sen ...
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Free Transportation Service Shut Down by Government

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The Santa Barbara City Council drove pedicab operators out of business by requiring that they get a driver's license, undergo a criminal background check, obtain a business license and carry insurance. City Council Shuts Down Free Transportation Service Imagine a ...
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Braiding Hair Requires a License?

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photo credit: Tom Story To practice her craft legally, Arizona regulators wanted Essence Farmer, an experienced African-style hair braider, to supposedly 'learn' her unique specialty by completing a $10,000, 1,600-hour cosmetology course that does not include African hair braiding techniques ...
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Universal Health Care: Universally Bad

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Speaking of the pitfalls of socialized, universal, single-payer government-run health care (its advocates keep trying out new names), I recommend the On the Fence Films website to anyone flirting with the notion of supporting the adoption of such a system ...
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Think Tank Challenges Greenpeace to Meet Transparency Standards

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   Today The National Center for Public Policy Research is challenging Greenpeace and its affiliates to disclose the sources and amounts of its 2006 donations exceeding $50,000.  If it does so, The National Center for Public Policy Research will do ...
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The National Center for Public Policy Research is a communications and research foundation supportive of a strong national defense and dedicated to providing free market solutions to today’s public policy problems. We believe that the principles of a free market, individual liberty and personal responsibility provide the greatest hope for meeting the challenges facing America in the 21st century.