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Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie on al Qaeda's Racial Slur and the Continuing Threat of Terrorism with Janet Parshall Monday - Listen Live
Al Qaeda deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri's calling President-elect Barack Obama and Bush Administration Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell "house negroes" will be the subject of an interview of Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie on the nationally-syndicated Janet Parshall radio show Monday... More...
The Welfare State Expands Access to Health Insurance - Not
The District of Columbia makes it more expensive for employers to purchase health insurance for employees... More...
New Poll Finds that Majority of African-Americans Oppose Public Lands Bill
A new poll released November 17 by the National Center for Public Policy Research shows that African-Americans oppose Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's Omnibus Public Lands Management Act by 52% to 37%... More...
Black Leader to Bush: Commute Sentences of Jailed Border Agents
After a federal judge last week refused to reduce the sentences of incarcerated U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, Mychal Massie, chairman of the Project 21 black leadership network, is calling on President George Bush to commute the agents' sentences before he leaves office in January... More...
Writing from Operation Iraqi Freedom, A Soldier Comments on the Election
"I have watched with my fellow soldiers, missing out on sleep because of the hour difference between home in the US and being in the Middle East, the election results. It is the commentary and fascination foreigners have that has most intrigued me..." More...
Wayward CEOs Threaten Shareholders and Free Markets
The harm caused by incompetent CEOs extends well beyond shareholders – it also threatens the conservative principles of limited government and free markets, writes Senior Fellow Tom Borelli... More...
Project 21's Horace Cooper on C-Span Friday to Discuss Race Issues in Obama's America
Project 21 member and National Center board member Horace Cooper discussed how the dynamic of race relations has been changed by Barack Obama’s election on C-Span's "Washington Journal" program Friday... More...
Elites Denying Affordable Energy to Average Americans
"Failing schools, crime and single-parent households are just a few of the challenges facing urban communities. Now, thanks to 'Club Green' - radical environmentalists and their supporters - soaring energy prices join the list," writes Deneen Borelli... More...
What's Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander
"Companies fail all the time. Let them," says Ak'Bar A. Shabazz, who believes that "from the ashes of a failed company, something new and quite likely better will emerge." More...
Finding Financial Security Through Old-School Wisdom
"Isn't it rich when something that was drilled into your head when you were a child starts making perfect sense?," asks B.B. Robinson, Ph.D. More...
Jackson Getting It Both Ways Means Some Get Nothing
"Anyone believing 'you can't have it both ways' doesn't know Reverend Jesse Jackson," says Stephen Roberts... More...
Rangel Ethics Mess Feels Like History Repeating Itself
"This legendary black congressman suffered from allegations about misusing his position as a powerful committee chairman," writes Bishop Council Nedd II. "Questions arose about his travel habits and a seaside property. His displays of wealth ill-represented his poor Harlem constituency. Is it..." More...
What Greenhouse Gas Restrictions Could Do to Our Economy
Writing in Investor's Business Daily today, David Ridenour says, "When our economic bus is teetering at the edge of a cliff, it's a bad time to throw on some extra weight..." More...
We Didn't Ask for an Apology, Mr. Pickens
The following is our response to T. Boone Pickens after a reporter asked him about the National Center's analysis of his plan... More...
Public Employee Pensions Endangered by State Officials Playing Global Warming Politics, New Report Says
Already at-risk public employee pension funds are being placed at further risk by state officials, says a new report by Steve Milloy and Tom Borelli... More...
Pickens Plan Requires More Digging
Key questions remain about the "Pickens Plan," an energy plan being promoted across the U.S. in an expensive marketing campaign by T. Boone Pickens... More...
Charlie Rangel's Many Scandals Subject of Project 21 Commentary in Washington Times
Project 21's Council Nedd wrote a commentary about Rep. Charlie Rangel that recently appeared in The Washington Times... More...
Top Corporate Watchdogs Form New Free Enterprise Project at National Center for Public Policy Research
The National Center for Public Policy Research is pleased to announce that the personnel and resources of the Free Enterprise Education Institute have joined the National Center for Public Policy Research... More...
The Pickens Plan: Questions Unanswered
On July 7, Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens introduced the "Pickens Plan," an ambitious proposal to reduce dependence on foreign oil by one-third over the next ten years.... More...
Pensions in Peril: Are State Officials Risking Public Employee Retirement Benefits by Playing Global Warming Politics?
State and local pension fund administrators who promote or ignore global warming regulation may be contributing to undesirable economic conditions that will adversely impact the portfolios they manage... More...
Cap and Trade Carbon Policies Could Increase Emissions, Says Justin Danhof
If Congress adopts cap and trade, it may not like the results, analyst warns... More...
Businesses Strike Back
Not every business takes an unfair tort system lying down... More...
Clean Water Restoration Act Could Trigger Largest-Ever Expansion of Federal Powers Over Private Property
The Clean Water Restoration Act is less about protecting our nation's waters and more about expanding the federal government's power to regulate private property... More...
Weyrich: Congressional Hearings on Land Trusts Needed
Conservative leader Paul Weyrich calls upon Congress to hold hearings to expose the way conservation easements are being abused... More...
Ethanol: A Burden on the Poor
The red-hot Congressional love affair with the alternative fuel ethanol is starting to leave many supermarket customers feeling mighty blue, says David Ridenour... More...
Ethanol: The Fuel to Nowhere
Move over "bridge to nowhere," there's a new poster child of congressional waste and avarice - ethanol, the "fuel to nowhere," says David Ridenour... More...
America Only Oil-Producing Nation That Severely Limits Its Production
With demand for energy skyrocketing and supply subject to incessant instability, we have a clear imperative to develop American oil, says Reece Epstein... More...
Food Crises and Restrictive African Trade Practices
Thompson Ayodele links African food crises to inappropriate government agricultural policies that stifle the continent's great agricultural potential... More...
Farm-Belt Voters Favor Eliminating or Scaling Back Corn Ethanol Mandate, New Poll Finds; 76% of Americans Want Ethanol Law Changed; 41% Want Mandate Repealed Entirely
Most Americans, including those in the Farm Belt, want Congress to reduce or eliminate the corn ethanol mandate, according to a new poll released today by the National Center for Public Policy Research.... More...
Landowners Beware - The Government's Found a New Way to Control Your Land
Under the guise of making more land accessible for the public's use and providing tax relief for land-rich but cash-poor landowners, the government has found a convenient way to restrict the use of private land, says Dana Joel Gattuso... More...
Overwhelming Majority of Americans Oppose Cap and Trade
A National Center for Public Policy Research poll shows an overwhelming majority of Americans oppose the higher energy costs that cap and trade would impose... More...
Americans Reject Proposed Expansion of Clean Water Act, Poll Shows
A majority of Americans oppose the Oberstar/Feingold Clean Water Restoration Act, according to a survey by Wilson Research Strategies for the National Center for Public Policy Research... More...
Global Warming Policies Cool Minority Economic Engines
For someone once considered "our first black president," Bill Clinton seems to have particular disregard for the economic well-being of minorities when it comes to energy, says Deneen Borelli... More...
Americans Cool to Global Warming Action: New Poll Finds
Nearly Half Wouldn't Be Willing to Pay Even a Penny More for Gasoline;
Opposition to Taxes Especially Strong Among Minorities
48% of Americans are unwilling to spend even a penny more in gasoline taxes to help reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new nationwide survey released by the National Center for Public Policy Research... More...
"Medicare for All" Universal Health Care Would Not Solve the Problem of Rising Health Care Costs
Putting all Americans under Medicare would not solve this nation’s problem of rising health care costs, says David Hogberg, Ph.D... More...
Would Ronald Reagan Support the Law of the Sea Treaty If He Were President Today?
Supporters of the Law of the Sea Treaty have argued that President Reagan's only objection to the treaty was its deep seabed mining section. But was it? More...
Sweden's Single-Payer Health System Provides a Warning to Other Nations
Like other nations with a single-payer system, Sweden has rationed health care, reports David Hogberg, Ph.D... More...
Life Expectancy and Infant Mortality are Unreliable Measures for Comparing the U.S. Health Care System to Others
Some would have you believe we can determine the quality of the U.S. health care system by comparing infant mortality and life expectancy. Not so fast, says David Hogberg... More...
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