Today The National Center for Public Policy Research is challenging Greenpeace and its affiliates to disclose the sources and amounts of its 2006 donations exceeding $50,000.  If it does so, The National Center for Public Policy Research will do ...
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The Tennessee Board of Funeral Directors ordered closed a casket business offering 30 to 50 percent discounts off competitors' prices because its owner - a Baptist pastor - was not a licensed funeral director, as is mandated under Tennessee law ...
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With a nod to economic favoritism, Seattle hands exclusive rights for removal of commercial and residential waste to two politically-connected corporations, while forbidding small local trash haulers the chance to compete legally. Seattle Eliminates Businesses for the Long Haul Ron ...
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Q: When is a think-tank not a think tank? A: When it's a conservative one. Or so implies Matthew Holt, proprietor of the not very objective, but certainly quite emotional Health Care Blog. Mr. Holt appears to be incensed that ...
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From Peyton Knight: A local Virginia newspaper, the Loudoun Times-Mirror, recently wrote a rather one-sided "news" piece promoting Rep. Frank Wolf's Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area. Biased reporting is nothing unusual, however, there is more to this story ...
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California regulators nearly shut down a company for offering homeowners the opportunity to advertise their own homes for sale on the Internet. California Tries to Require Broker's Licenses for Web Sites Carrying Real Estate Ads Some homeowners choose to forgo ...
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Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli, acting on behalf of the National Legal and Policy Center, will present a shareholder proposal (pdf) at the company's annual meeting Tuesday that is critical of JPMorgan Chase’s apology for slavery. A National Legal and ...
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In light of popular radio hosts joking on-air about violently raping Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the black leadership network Project 21 is asking: Where are Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson? Both Sharpton and Jackson protested when the now-fired Don ...
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Black activists representing the Project 21 leadership network are calling upon the Reverend Al Sharpton to acknowledge and apologize for his inappropriate and insensitive remarks directed at the Mormon faith.  The particular shame of Sharpton making such a statement, Project ...
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From Peyton Knight: The Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership, a taxpayer-supported gang of preservation interest groups that apparently exists primarily to lobby for Rep. Frank Wolf's (R-VA) "Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area Act" (H.R. 319), put out a ...
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