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Horace Cooper Discusses Potential Abuse of “Black Box” Information in Private Cars

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On the February 3, 2013 edition of “America’s News Headquarters” on the Fox News Channel, National Center adjunct fellow and Project 21 co-chairman Horace Cooper discusses the “staggering” amount of information newer automobiles gather about driver habits and travels. He also warns ...
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Mike Schwartz, America Will Miss You

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I was saddened to learn today, along with everyone here at the National Center for Public Policy Research who knew him, of the death of long-time conservative leader Mike Schwartz. Mike died of ALS on Saturday. He will be missed ...
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Judge Rebukes Obama Administration … Again

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It has been a tough week for the Obama Administration.  Monday, a federal judge declared ObamaCare void since the individual mandate is unconstitutional; and Wednesday, another federal judge held Obama’s Interior Department in contempt of court. Last June, U.S. District Court Judge ...
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Yuck It Up Over Congress, But You Really May Dislike Obama More, by Derryck Green

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People think Congress sucks, and there's statistical evidence to prove they do. According to a recent national poll conducted by Public Policy Polling, Congress has a favorability rating of nine percent. The reputation of Congress is so bad that, when ...
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Another Month, Another Bunch of Bad Economic News

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Just like the office created to close Gitmo, the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness slowly faded away.  The Council, with a two-year mandate in which only four face-to-face meetings were held, officially ceased to exist yesterday. Unfortunately for Obama, ...
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How Free Are We? We’re Number 10! We’re Number 10! Teresa Platt

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The USA ranked Number 10 in the 2013 Index of Economic Freedom prepared by the conservative Heritage Foundation and the financially astute Wall Street Journal. Designed for the computer age, the Index features interactive graphs and charts.  Seriously, your kids ...
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Hollywood, Games and Gun Violence: It’s All in the Name

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There is merely lip service being paid by some politicians about how movies, television and video games might contribute to the culture of violence that has lead to so many shootings these days.  And that’s considered bad enough.  The pushback ...
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The Origin and Purpose of Black History Month, by Stacy Swimp

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History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is also a compass that people use to find themselves on the map of human geography. History tells a people where they have ...
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And Al Gore Wonders Why We Don’t Believe Him

Drudge links today to Al Gore's response to Fox's Bill O'Reilly, who was wondering what all this snow teaches us about global warming. Gore writes, "As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question for some ...
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Rosa Parks the “Epitome of a Heroine”

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Rosa Parks — the woman who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus and thus became a catalyst for powerful social change in America — is being honored with a statue in the U.S. Capitol’s National ...
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