Category: Project 21

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About Those February Jobs Numbers

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If things are getting better, why doesn’t it feel like it… and why doesn’t the supporting information seem to support the official unemployment rate? It’s the first Friday of the month, and that means the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics ...
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Despite “Nuclear Option” in Senate, Adegbile Nomination Was Radioactive

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It wasn’t supposed to happen this way — not during President Obama’s “year of action.” Yesterday, a bipartisan coalition of senators defeated the nomination of radical lawyer Debo Adegbile, Obama’s choice to run the civil rights practice at the U.S ...
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Black Conservatives Discuss Barack’s Budget

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Many reports about President Obama’s proposed budget for the 2015 fiscal year suggest that it is more of a stunt meant to affect the outcome of the 2014 mid-term elections than the fulfillment of a solemn constitutional obligation. At nearly ...
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Project 21 Members Predicted First Lady’s Food Fanaticism

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Celebrating the fourth anniversary of her “Let’s Move!” kid nutrition and fitness regulatory crusade, First Lady Michelle Obama used last week as a springboard from which she launched more new ways to further regulate away Americans’ food freedom. This sort ...
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Free-Market Fixes Could Still Save American Health Care, by Elaina F. George, MD

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As "law of the land," ObamaCare has already fundamentally changed American health care. Despite the partisan bickering and disastrous rollout, government has successfully inserted itself between doctors and patients — controlling everything from doctors' treatment options to patient choices about ...
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If I Were a Liberal, by Hughey Newsome

If I Were a Liberal, by Hughey Newsome

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Peggy Noonan, the former Republican speechwriter, recently authored a column the Wall Street Journal titled "Incompetence." She highlighted examples of how Obama staffers "don't have a background in executing" the policies the President seeks to articulate. Rather, Noonan wrote, "they ...
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Get Over It: No Hatred in Obama Critiques, by Christopher Arps

Get Over It: No Hatred in Obama Critiques, by Christopher Arps

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Quite often, fellow African-Americans hear me criticize President Obama and ask me why I hate the President. I reject the premise of the question. I don't hate President Obama, but I do strongly dislike his policies and the divisive tone ...
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Blacks Must Speak Outside the Language of Race (Part 1), by Derryck Green

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Blacks must become multilingual. I'm not saying that black folk should learn a second language such as Spanish or Chinese — although the fact that Hispanics are the dominant minority and China is ascending economically might make knowledge of these ...
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Blacks Must Speak Outside the Language of Race (Part 2), by Derryck Green

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Contrary to popular liberal belief, Black Americans don't speak with one voice. It was the same California blacks who, in 2008, voted for both traditional marriage and Barack Obama — the man who helped craft a U.S. Supreme Court that ...
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Disproportionate Definitions of “Disproportionate,” by Hughey Newsome

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In a speech this past February, Attorney General Eric Holder said Americans need to reconsider the punishment that convicted felons lose their right to vote. While some states have means for felons, usually those convicted of non-violent crimes, to regain ...
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Project 21, a leading voice of black conservatives for over 25 years, is sponsored by the National Center for Public Policy Research. Its members have been quoted, interviewed or published over 40,000 times since the program was created in 1992. Contributions to the National Center are tax-deductible and greatly appreciated, and may be earmarked exclusively for the use of Project 21.