Minimum wage laws — a centerpiece of President Obama’s class warfare agenda — has its origins in anti-black sentiment? Yes! That fact and other unsettling details about the racial underpinnings of progressive labor laws are laid bare by Project 21 ...
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I have a new National Policy Analysis out today entitled, “Intellectuals and the VA: How A Bad Idea and Bad Reporting Contributed to a Health Care Catastrophe.” It traces how Phillip Longman’s book Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Healthcare Is Better ...
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Politicians, Including President Obama and Secretary Eric Shinseki, Bought Into Ideas of Book "Best Care Anywhere" This Caused Sense of Complacency Despite 26 Reports Examining Wait-Times from 2000-2011, New Analysis Shows Washington, D.C. - The Veterans Administration scandal had been ...
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Here's hoping that when the U.S. Supreme Court hands down Burwell (formerly Sebelius) v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. v. Burwell on, presumably, Monday, it not only delivers a resounding victory for Hobby Lobby/Conestoga Woods by ...
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In a devastating blow to the New York City nanny state of former mayor Michael Bloomberg, judges on the New York State Court of Appeals voted to uphold two lower court rulings thus keeping the city government from banning the ...
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Project 21 member Derryck Green tells Soul of the South host Angela Rae that the reported decline in the government’s unemployment calculations is “not impressive,” noting that factors such as a lack of confidence on the part of potential employers ...
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Understanding Today's Supreme Court Case on Recess Authority Washington, D.C. - National Center for Public Policy Research Chairman Amy Ridenour has the following statement regarding the Supreme Court's decision today in NLRB v. Canning: NLRB v. Canning is in an ...
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Today’s big decision from the U.S. Supreme Court was a unanimous ruling against the Obama White House in the case of NLRB v. Canning. The justices found that President Obama acted improperly in making recess appointments to the National Labor ...
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The VA scandal is, in part, the result of the fact that most employees at the VA have civil service protections, which makes it very difficult to terminate their employment. When employees have goals they can’t meet—such as a 14-day ...
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An amusing side note to the major Supreme Court case decided today, NLRB. v. Noel Canning, is how many people believe Noel Canning is a man. For example, this lead paragraph in The Wire: In a narrow ruling that preserves ...
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