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Black Activists Lament Later Tax Freedom Day

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April 21 is “Tax Freedom Day.”  It commemorates the day when all taxpaying Americans have collectively earned enough to settled up the tab for what Uncle Sam demands from them in tribute. From here on out, the American people can ...
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Not Even a Clinton Compromise Can Persuade Strident Voter ID Critics

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Does Bill Clinton really want to suppress the black vote? And why, for that matter, is civil rights hero Andrew Young apparently willing to discourage minority, elderly and student from going to the polls? At least that’s what would be ...
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Myth: America Had A Free-Market Health Care System Prior To ObamaCare

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It appears that the second greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing lots of Americans that they had a free-market health care system prior to ObamaCare.  That became evident after I received this tweet the other day: That fact ...
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A Bad Week for Lois Lerner, But a Good Week for Finding the Truth

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This was a bad week for Lois Lerner, but nothing that she apparently couldn’t have prevented.  It’s her mess. The former head of the Internal Revenue Service’s division that oversees tax-exempt organizations incurred the wrath of two different congressional committees ...
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Project 21’s Cooper on Hank Aaron’s Race Remarks

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Legendary baseball star Hank Aaron fouled out when he tried to play politics — essentially spoiling the 40th anniversary of his record-breaking 715th home run for many fans. During an interview with USA Today, when Aaron unfortunately steered the conversation ...
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Have a Koch and a Smile

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We need more Charles Kochs. Rather than vilifying him, we should be encouraging more Americans of means to follow his example. Regardless of your politics, regardless of whether you agree with his methods, you ought to agree with Mr. Koch's ...
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Project 21’s Cooper Cheers Supreme Court’s Campaign Finance Ruling

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In today’s decision in the case of McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that an aggregate limit on the amount of money a person may contribute to political candidates and committees is unconstitutional. Writing for the ...
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Ballot Protection Law in North Carolina Increases Minority, Liberal Voter Registration

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When states consider and implement voter ID laws, the usual complaint from the left is that requiring someone to have valid government-issued proof of identification disfranchises minorities, the old and young as well as those who are generally thought to ...
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Is It Open Season on Black Conservatives?

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Nearly every member of Project 21, the National Center’s black leadership network created to celebrate the diversity of black political opinion, has a story about how their conservative beliefs led to them being ostracized among their black peers (and often ...
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Noel Sheppard, RIP

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Shocking news today on the Media Research Center's NewsBusters blog: Noel Sheppard, Associate Editor and VERY popular blogger, passed away yesterday from cancer. He was 53. Noel covered an extremely wide breath of topics, all of which he managed expertly ...
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