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What the FBI Wants Apple to Do

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There's much confusion about just what the FBI is asking Apple to do in the matter of the locked iPhone that was used by one or both of the San Bernardino terrorists. FBI Director James Comey testified today before the ...
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Liberal Congresswoman Calls for Federal Drug Tests for Farmers If Food Stamp Recipients Get Them

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Why shouldn't farmers have to get drug-tested before they receive agricultural subsidies or participate in federal agriculture programs, if people on various welfare programs, including food stamps (SNAP), do? So asks Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) in a Colin Taylor article ...
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Hollywood Specializes in Fiction – Beware of Following Its Policy Advice

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As the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences meets tonight in California to give awards to itself, it is as good a time as any to remind ourselves that there's a reason Hollywood specializes in fiction. Example #1 is ...
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Apple Shareholders Reject Shareholder Proposal Claiming Board is “Too Vanilla” (aka, White)

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Lack of diversity has long been a problem among the many Silicon Valley companies that employ mostly white men. Apple has said previously it would work to address gaps in employee diversity. -Time, "Apple Shareholders Reject Plan to Recruit Minorities ...
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Tomorrow I Will Speak to Apple Shareholders About Human Rights

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Tomorrow morning, at the annual Apple meeting of shareholders in Cupertino, California, I will speak in favor of Proposal #7, "Human Rights Review," a shareholder proposal submitted by the National Center for Public Policy Research. (To read it, go here ...
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Starbucks May Soon Have the World’s Largest Menu

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Does the fact that there are 36,000 possible Frappuccino combinations at Starbucks mean that Starbucks soon must print the calorie count for all 36,000 combinations on its menu, under little-known regulations brought to us by the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)? ...
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Look at American Vets to See Future of Government Health Care

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Project 21’s Kevin Martin participated in a televised discussion Wednesday about whether employers should be able to mine data about their employees in order to predict health risks. Kevin pointed out that government employees already have their data mined. He ...
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Liberals, It’s a Lie to Say Criticism of Obama Is Because He’s Black

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To hear MSNBC tell it, Obama is prohibited from doing many things because of his black ancestry. Case in point is an on-air discussion between MSNBC employees Joy Reid and Chris Matthews, in which Reid alleges that Barack Obama "uniquely" ...
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Nannystaters Try Censorship Again, Put Lives at Stake

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The National Center's Jeff Stier is in Salt Lake City today, where he and a group of about thirty people politely, and silently, held signs opposing a massive 86.5 percent tax hike on e-cigarettes, the tobacco-free devices that permit people ...
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Obama and Friends Cry False Racism for Supreme Court Battle

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I wrote yesterday about President Obama's attempt to cast the coming Supreme Court confirmation battle as being about him personally, so he can cast it as an issue of mostly white Senators opposing the nominee of a (half) black President ...
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The National Center for Public Policy Research is a communications and research foundation supportive of a strong national defense and dedicated to providing free market solutions to today’s public policy problems. We believe that the principles of a free market, individual liberty and personal responsibility provide the greatest hope for meeting the challenges facing America in the 21st century.