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Text of FDR Letter Opposing Public Employee (Government) Unions

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, like the overwhelming majority of Americans today, opposed public sector unions. See below the full text of FDR's letter to Luther C. Steward, President of the National Federation of Federal Employees, of August 16, 1937. My dear ...
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Deneen Borelli of Project 21 Discusses Wisconsin Unrest on Fox News This Weekend

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Project 21 fellow Deneen Borelli is scheduled to appear on two Fox News Channel programs on Saturday, February 19 to discuss the stand-off in Wisconsin over reforming the benefits plan for many state government employees. See Deneen in segments currently ...
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Read the Name on Your Door Next Time

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The above is just a little advice for officials of the ironically-named Office of Law Enforcement over at the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), which is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which itself is part of ...
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The Food Police Just Won’t Quit

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I sometimes wonder whether they want to ban sodas — one ingredient at a time. If it isn’t your favorite no-calorie sweetener, like Splenda, Nutrasweet, or Acesulfame K, it is the full-calorie high fructose corn syrup. But today, it was ...
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Appetite For Regulating

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The regulators just can’t help themselves.  They find a problem, pass regulations and only later do they bother to do the science to see if the regulation will be effective. The latest example comes today, with the report of yet ...
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Don’t Cry for TAA — There’s Plenty More Where That Came From

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February 12 came and went without a reauthorization of the current federal Trade Adjustment Assistance program. So it’s gone, right?  Wrong. Even as ABC News portrayed the current status of TAA as Congress telling unemployed Americans “tough luck,” Howard Rosen of ...
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Congress Prepares to Challenge Net Neutrality

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Just before Christmas, the Federal Communications Commission gave Pres ident Obama the gift his liberal friends in Congress could not: “net neutrality” regulatory authority over the Internet. Now, Congress is poised to go all CTRL+ALT+DEL on the FCC.  It’s the ...
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Don’t Cry for TAA — There’s Plenty More Where That Came From

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February 12 came and went without a reauthorization of the current federal Trade Adjustment Assistance program. So it’s gone, right?  Wrong. Even as ABC News portrayed the current status of TAA as Congress telling unemployed Americans “tough luck,” Howard Rosen of ...
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Pepsi Super Bowl Ad Provokes “Selective Outrage” Among Black Leaders

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After Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) took to the floor of the House of Representatives on 2/8/11 to declare that a Pepsi Max Super Bowl ad was “demeaning,” Project 21 fellow Deneen Borelli debated the claim with Fox News Channel ...
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Google Celebrates Old Man’s Evil Invention

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Today’s Google logo is a celebration of the creations of Thomas Edison on the legendary inventor’s th birthday. The familiar multi-colored letters of the Google name are replaced with yellowing, animated sketches of famous Edison patents such as the phonograph, ...
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