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Obama More Concerned with Growing Government Than Growing the Economy

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Despite continued dismal economic news, such as today’s report from the Commerce Department that America’s GDP only grew by 1.5 percent between April and June, President Obama seems to remain upbeat.  He appears to think his economic plan, to take ...
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Project 21 Members Tear Down Obama’s “You Didn’t Build That” Argument

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First, President Obama recently assured Americans that “[t]he private sector is doing fine.”  Then, after a lackluster jobs report that heralded the 41st month of unemployment over eight percent, he said it was “a step in the right direction.” But ...
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Pennsylvania Voter Disfranchisement Claims Much Ado About Nothing

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A new report out of Pennsylvania says there are more than 750,000 people on the voter list there who don’t have driver’s licenses.  But, contrary to the assertions of breathless media reports on the disparity and the cries of ballot ...
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Shrinking Defense Budget In a Dangerous World Requires Savvy Strategy

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As I write in a piece for The Hill’s Congress blog today, at a time when budgets are tight and risks are high, we need a smarter missile defense approach than the one President Obama calls for in his budget ...
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Discussion About Douglass Differentiates Dour Liberals from Lively Conservatives

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In his 2008 book Makers and Takers, Hoover Institution fellow (and National Center board member) Peter Schweizer concluded in part that being liberal or conservative is “not simply [about] political ideologies, but represent ways of life.”  Conservatives, he suggested, are ...
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MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Claims to Be Non-Partisan After National Center Brings Up Bias to Her Boss

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Back in May, I asked Comcast CEO Brian Roberts to look into a particular broadcast of the “Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC in which Maddow potentially libeled the National Center for Public Policy Research.  Roberts pledged to look into Maddow’s ...
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Continued High Unemployment Not a “Step in the Right Direction”

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Another very bad jobs report was issued today, leaving many with the fear that the economy is beginning to slow down again after some indications that the nation might be in recovery. Project 21 member Derryck Green notes that President ...
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Independents Disagree With Supreme Court Ruling

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An interesting finding in a new StrategyOne poll released today: Independents seem to be taking an especially keen interest in the recent Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act/ObamaCare. According to the poll, independents disagreed with the ruling 46%-35%, ...
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Project 21’s Stacy Swimp Promotes Early Black Patriotism

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In his newest New Visions Commentary, “What, to Black Americans, is the 4th of July?,” Project 21 member Stacy Swimp talks about how expanding freedom in America would make Frederick Douglass proud. Stacy also advocates for taking time out during ...
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Members of Congress Have a Duty to Understand What the Constitutional Issues Surrounding ObamaCare are About

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I lost my temper at some House Democrats and Richard Trumka of the AFL-CIO in a press release earlier today, though I can't say I regret it. The gentlemen are taking the position that if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns ...
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