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How Mrs. John Witherspoon Was Persuaded to Come to America

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Just about a month ago, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka called upon President Obama to issue green cards to everyone eligible for citizenship under the Senate immigration bill, which gives legal status to illegal aliens already here: ...the executive branch must ...
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Project 21’s Derryck Green on the Price of, Threat to Freedom

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On the occasion of Independence Day, Project 21 member Derryck Green reflects on the sacrifices made in the name of freedom, the current state of that liberty in our nation and what might be done to improve the future. Our ...
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Big Business and Big Labor Deserve Partial Responsibility for Dangers Faced by Children Crossing the Border

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Facebook founder and CEO Jeff Zuckerberg founded FWD.us, a group that lobbies Congress for "a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants." Hopes of U.S. citizenship, or legal status, is a key factor spurring parents south of the border ...
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What, to Black Americans, is the 4th of July?

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The following New Visions Commentary from Project 21 member Stacy Swimp was originally published in July of 2012: On July 5, 1852, the famous black abolitionist Frederick Douglass delivered a stinging indictment of American independence.  He did so because it ...
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Hat-Trick! Obama Leaves Labor Participation Stagnant for Three Months Straight

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It’s customary for the previous month’s unemployment numbers to be released on the first Friday of the successive month.  With the first Friday of July being a federal holiday, the government’s release of new jobless data was moved up by ...
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Does Burger King Fund ThinkProgress? And Other Questions

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1. Hat tip to Kevin Williamson for linking to this year-old post from ThinkProgress.  In support of a “living wage” of $15 per hour for fast-food workers, ThinkProgress cites research from a University of Kansas graduates student saying that McDonald’s ...
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Harris v. Quinn: Tomorrow’s Supreme Court Sleeper Case May Not Be So Sleepy

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Nearly all eyes turned toward the Supreme Court tomorrow are focused on the combined Hobby Lobby/Conestoga Woods cases -- but two First Amendment-related decisions are to be handed down tomorrow, and the one few people have heard about could be ...
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Repeal The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival Act

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One almost has to give the President Obama points for chutzpah.  He signs an executive order that has resulted in a huge flood of underage illegal immigrants into the nation, and now he wants Congress to authorize the spending of ...
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Five Reasons the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby Decision is Good for Americans

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I made the following statement today regarding the Supreme Court's decision to strike down ObamaCare's HHS contraception mandate and uphold an employer's right not to be forced to provide birth control and early abortion drugs and devices to employees against ...
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Progressive Labor Laws Hurt Poor, Black Americans

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Minimum wage laws — a centerpiece of President Obama’s class warfare agenda — has its origins in anti-black sentiment? Yes! That fact and other unsettling details about the racial underpinnings of progressive labor laws are laid bare by Project 21 ...
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