Category: Project 21 New Visions

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Property Rights: It’s Not Just for the Rich, by Reece Epstein

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Liberals normally claim to defend small independent businesses over "big box" retailers.  It seemed odd, then, when the liberal enclave of Oakland, California evicted two such underdogs to benefit a department store. By doing so, it exposed governments' growing disrespect ...
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History is Always the Final Judge, by Ak’Bar A. Shabazz

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"A wolf wrapped in monk's robes.  A devil with a human face and a beast's heart." That's how Tibetan Communist Party Secretary General Zhang Qingli recently described the Dalai Lama, Tibet's traditional political and spiritual leader. It almost makes me ...
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Congressional Liberals Having Their Cake and Eating It Too, by Kevin Martin

Congressional Liberals Having Their Cake and Eating It Too, by Kevin Martin

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"Let them eat cake." It's a phrase attributed to Marie Antoinette, the excess-addicted wife of French King Louis XVI, after being told the poor didn't have enough bread to eat.  While some scholars think someone else said it, there is ...
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Secure Their Livelihoods, Secure Their Votes, by Reece Epstein

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Imagine not having a bank account.  Imagine all your money is hidden in a sock drawer. Imagine arriving home one day to find the door ajar.  You've been robbed!  You run to the sock drawer, but your savings are gone ...
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The Civil Rights Shakedown: Myth or Reality? by Deneen Borelli

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Al Sharpton is making headlines again, but it's not for one of his crusades. Instead, Sharpton, his National Action Network (NAN), and several major corporations that have donated to NAN have been subpoenaed in recent months by federal investigators. While ...
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Food Crises and Restrictive African Trade Practices, by Thompson Ayodele

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Food prices have skyrocketed internationally.  In my own Nigeria, rice has epitomized the crisis after doubling in price since last year. Riots happening around the world over food supplies are prompting panicked governments to find solutions to stem the crisis.  ...
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The Separate But Equal News Network, by Mychal Massie

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There's a conservative joke poking fun at liberal media that predicts coverage of an impending apocalypse would have the headline "World to End: Poor and Minorities Hardest Hit." Despite his tenure as a Republican congressman, it seems J.C. Watts never ...
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Black America is Still Not Free, by Reece Epstein

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Black America is still not free.  Despite the abolition of slavery and passage of civil rights laws, something still holds people back - themselves. That's the view of psychologist Dr. James Davidson, Jr., who says a major problem facing black ...
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Jesse Jackson Outrage Strategy: No Dough, No Go? by David Almasi and Justin Danhof

Jesse Jackson Outrage Strategy: No Dough, No Go? by David Almasi and Justin Danhof

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Remember when Jesse Jackson challenged XM Satellite Radio for its racist advertising?  Probably not, since it never happened.  Why he didn't is the question. In 2006 and 2007, XM ran television commercials that were blatantly racist, at least under a ...
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Everybody Pays for Single Parenthood - In More Ways Than One, by Darryn "Dutch" Martin

Everybody Pays for Single Parenthood – In More Ways Than One, by Darryn “Dutch” Martin

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As a product of a poverty-stricken single-parent home, I know first-hand about the negative baggage that growing up poor and fatherless can breed. Numerous studies note that children born and raised in fatherless, single-parent homes are much more likely to ...
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