Category: Project 21 New Visions

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Save the Suds from Environmental Extremism, by Cherylyn Harley LeBon

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Washington is regulating the common light bulb out of existence and raiding America's medicine cabinet. Now, the Obama Administration's EPA is preparing to go after soap! Remember the hand sanitizing gels that were on virtually every countertop, desk and in ...
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Why Al Sharpton is Afraid of Black Conservatives, by Kevin Martin

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As a black conservative, I've come to the conclusion that my progressive critics don't dislike me as much as they fear people such as me. Black progressives are particularly embittered of us because black conservatives can counter their lies, smears ...
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Racism Double Standard at the NAACP, by Deneen Borelli

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It's clear that the civil rights establishment, knee-jerk toward what it perceives to be discrimination, turns a blind eye to intolerance and incivility directed at conservatives — even when the victims are black. Over the past two years, for example, ...
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The Coming War on Menthol Cigarettes, by Horace Cooper

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Last year, not long after the Food and Drug Administration got legislative authority to regulate tobacco, "flavored" cigarettes were banned — on behalf of the children. This was largely a publicity stunt since Twista Lime, Kauai Kolada and other flavored ...
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Obama is Not Heeding to the Lesson of Wisconsin, by Deneen Borelli

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President Barack Obama is surrounded by a broad and diverse array of challenges.  From slow economic growth and high unemployment to emerging international crises, Obama faces mounting pressure to show leadership. But all of these weighty national and international burdens ...
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What Can the Tea Party Do to Attract Minorities? by Emery McClendon

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As a tea party organizer and black man, I am often asked how a movement with the critical mission of saving and restoring our republic can attract minorities currently weak in numbers in tea party ranks. The mainstream media and ...
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Blacks’ Role in the U.S. Economy, by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.

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Some black women are not very concerned about the fact that 72 percent of black babies born in 2008 were born out of wedlock. These women take an analytical approach to relationships and don't always see a valid reason to ...
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Trust for Us, by B.B. Robinson

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There is a lot of discussion of the black community's problems: poverty, crime, high incarceration rates and high unemployment. But there isn't much discussion of "trust." An absence of focus on the trust deficit in the black community obscures an ...
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Threat of Mexican Drug Violence Likely to Lead to Use of U.S. Troops Along Southern Border, by Jimmie L. Hollis

Threat of Mexican Drug Violence Likely to Lead to Use of U.S. Troops Along Southern Border, by Jimmie L. Hollis

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There is a rising belief that Mexico is becoming a new drug war-era Columbia, and that our federal government should deploy the military along our southern border right now. Experts believe conditions exist inside Mexico that mirror those found in ...
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Obama Patter Preempts American Priorities, by Lisa Fritsch

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What was that big Obama speech all about? Officially, it was the State of the Union Address — the annual report, constitutionally-mandated, from the President to Congress. Back in the day, it wasn't a big thing. Many such reports were ...
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