How do you feel about an absentee landlord who accumulate acres and acres of productive land, then neglects it so it produces little and becomes so overgrown it’s a fire hazard to the neighbors? Not good, right? Well, that absentee ... READ MORE
Journalist Steven Brill has penned a 20,000-plus word article for TIME magazine examining the way hospitals charge for services. The best way to describe the article is, “It’s well worth the time to read it until he starts talking about ... READ MORE
Discussing problems regarding current adjudication of the almost 50-year-old Voting Rights Act, Project 21 co-chairman Horace Cooper says “it is the enforcement in the name of the preclearance standard that is the subject of the problem.” Specifically, Horace tells his ... READ MORE
Supreme Court Considers Constitutionality of Old Law Requiring U.S. Department of Justice Pre-Approval for Voting Law Changes in All or Part of 16 States Based on Discrimination that Occurred in 1964 Conservative Group Says Eric Holder's DOJ is Now Misusing ... READ MORE
Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act and the “preclearance” standards the law imposes on select states and localities will undergo constitutional scrutiny on February 27 as the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court hear arguments in the case of ... READ MORE
Explaining why it is now up to the U.S. Supreme Court to reform the Voting Rights Act in the case of Shelby County, Alabama v. Eric Holder, Project 21 co-chairman Horace Cooper easily dispels the rhetoric of the other MSNBC ... READ MORE
In a recent New Visions Commentary entitled “Politics and Pawns,” Project 21 black leadership network member Hughey Newsome suggested that President Obama callously used the heartfelt concerns of the American people – like pawns on a chessboard – in 2011 ... READ MORE
Project 21 member Niger Innis, whose family has suffered greatly from gun-related violence, decried liberal attempts to further regulate the ability of law-abiding Americans to own and use firearms. At the 2/22/13 “Black Leaders Speak Out on Gun Control” press ... READ MORE
On February 18, Sunlight's Lindsay Young reported that Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) disclosures show that The National Center for Public Policy Research participated in luncheon briefings sponsored by the Gaddafi Charitable and Development Foundation in 2009. FARA records actually ... READ MORE
As noted in a previous blog post, most left-wing pundits were silent when Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia succeeded in getting part-time state workers limited to 29 hours per week so as to avoid giving them health insurance as ... READ MORE