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Black Churches to Participate in Day of Prayer for Jailed Border Patrol Agents
Project 21 has recruited the support of black churches to participate in a special day of prayer declared by a member of Congress to call attention to the plight of incarcerated U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean.... More...
Should Earmarks be Spent on Lobbying? Should Lobbyists Represent Congressmen?
Should earmarks paid for with public funds be spent promoting projects under consideration by Congress? Is it OK for a lobbyist to represent a Congressman at a meeting about one of the Congressman's bills?... More...
NCPPR's Almasi Comments on CAFE in National Review
If you don’t like paying an extra buck a gallon for gasoline, just wait until you have to spend an extra ten grand for the car. Especially since it is a car you are more likely to die in... More...
An Earmark + “K Street” Lobbyist = Massive Federal Land Grab
George Bush is now the last remaining hurdle to the establishment of de facto federal zoning along a 175-mile corridor running from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to Charlottesville, Virginia. It’s one of the largest federal land grabs in history, says David A. Ridenour... More...
A Charity Bill That Would Keep People from Giving
In California, charitable foundations are being targeted for allegedly not doing enough for minority-run groups, reports Deneen Borelli... More...
Why No Black Faces on Greenbacks?
Blacks are excluded from arguably the most important medium in use today in this nation and around the world – U.S. currency, says B.B. Robinson... More...
Everybody Pays for Single Parenthood - In More Ways Than One
"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," says Dutch Martin.... More...
Black Activists Rap Cesar Chavez Earmark Bill; President Bush to Decide if Taxpayer Funds Will Honor Militant Activist Whose Followers Used Violence as "Organizing" Tactic
The Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008 is now on President Bush's desk; legislation would use tax funds to honor militant activist and establish the Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area... More...
Project 21's Nedd Joins Other Religious Leaders at UN Public Health Conference
Project 21 member Bishop Council Nedd II is returning from Geneva, where he helped lead a non-governmental organization delegation to the World Health Organization's Working Group on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property... More...
Flaws in Clean Water Restoration Act Exposed in Congressional Hearings
Mike Hardiman gives the scoop on the two recent Congressional hearings held on the Feingold/Oberstar Clean Water Restoration Act... More...
NCPPR Senior Fellow Helps Clear the Air on Clean Water
On the heels of congressional hearings in both the House and Senate... More...
Coalition Letter Detailing Risks of National Heritage Area Designation; 114 Groups and Local Leaders Call for End to National Heritage Areas
National heritage areas are the Kelo decision and earmarks rolled into one... More...
What People Are Saying about National Heritage Areas
Quotes about national heritage areas... 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...
Sportsmen Should Beware the Clean Water Restoration Act
Under the Clean Water Restoration Act, outdoor activities, including habitat creation and conservation, hunting, boating, fishing, sport shooting, using all-terrain vehicles and other outdoor activities could be heavily regulated or restricted.... More...
Representatives of 53 Organizations Warn Congress, Public about Oberstar/Feingold Clean Water Restoration Act
Farm bureaus, manufacturers, sportsmen, taxpayer advocates, think-tanks and others express concern about expansion of federal power in Oberstar/Feingold legislation... More...
Text of Letter to Congress Signed by 53 Organizations on the Clean Water Restoration Act
A bill is now making its way through the House that would have a significant impact on property rights and economic growth in the U.S.... More...
Supreme Court Endorsement of Photo ID Election Rule Hailed by Black Activists; Project 21 and the Center for Equal Opportunity Had Presented an Amici Curiae in Case
Today's U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding Indiana's photo identification election law is being hailed... More...
Project 21's Bob Parks Finds Hippie Ethic Alive and Well in Eco-Philosophy
"If it feels good, do it" was a hippie mantra from 40 years ago. Coincidentally, the same time as Earth Day was created... More...
Congressional Energy Diet Also Reduces Waistlines and Pocketbooks (Don't Even Ask About Global Warming!)
The liberal leadership in Congress came to power in 2006 saying it had a solution to rising gas prices. Did that solution involve prices continuing to go up and taking the cost of food with them? Dana Gattuso examines the question in a new column... 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...
N-Word as a Term of Endearment?
Would a proud father call his daughter the b-word or a "ho"? Mychal Massie has thoughts... More...
EPA Sludge Tests a "Modern-Day Tuskegee Experiment"; Children in Poor Black Neighborhoods Potentially Imperiled by EPA Studies
Revelations that the federal government conducted potentially dangerous sludge-related experiments on children is condemned... More...
Project 21's Massie to Receive "Conservative Man of the Year" Award
Mychal Massie will receive the "Conservative Man of the Year" award for his many contributions to advancing conservative principles... More...
When Good Intentions Go Bad, Or Worse
Very few people actually want to pollute, says Bob Parks, but when we get sucked into eco-panic, cooler heads seldom prevail - sometimes costing jobs and even lives... More...
Conservatives Lose When They Shun U.N. Conferences
"Since long before I became involved in Washington politics, my fellow conservatives have sought an American withdrawal from the United Nations," says Bishop Council Nedd II... More...
Changing Attitudes, Changing Lives
Back in 1958, says B.B. Robinson, the pollsters at the Gallup organization asked people whether they approved of interracial marriage... More...
Underserved and Overlooked
Companies manufacturing new drugs are at risk of losing their patent rights, which reduces the incentive for them to continue developing more effective drugs, says Bishop Council Nedd II... More...
Property Rights Going Up in Smoke
Believing in liberty, Sean Turner finds it deplorable when anti-smoking policies are applied to private property... More...
Don't Waste Your Time If You Can't Pay the Prime
It was the American Dream on steroids, 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...
54% of Americans Reject Oberstar-Feingold Proposal to Expand Clean Water Act, Poll Finds
A majority of Americans oppose a proposal to expand the Clean Water Act, according to a poll released by the National Center for Public Policy Research.... More...
Race Preference Policies Are "Discriminatory On all Ends" Says Borelli
Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli spells out the antiquity of affirmative action policies in the Boston Globe... More...
Black Activist Asks: If Courts Can Gut Second Amendment, How Can We Assume 13th Amendment Ban on Slavery is Safe?
Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli says government should not be allowed to pick and choose what constitutional protections are honored and enforced... More...
Project 21 Helps Expose Hypocrisy of Environmental Elite in the Third World
Project 21 has gathered statements from native Africans and black Americans who know the tragic consquences of energy starvation in the Third World... More...
Listing the Polar Bear Under the ESA Could Spell Disaster
There are big reasons not to list the polar bear under the endangered species act, says Peyton Knight... More...
Free Market Health Care in Africa Promoted
Another problem with government-run health care: corruption... More...
Oberstar and Feingold Bait-and-Switch: Deceptively-Named "Clean Water Restoration Act" Would Expand, Not Restore Federal Powers
A letter signed by over 100 people representing diverse interests and millions of Americans say the Clean Water Restoration Act would expand the Clean Water Act far beyond its original intent... More...
Coalition Letter on the Clean Water Restoration Act
A bill is now making its way through the House that would push "the limits of federal power to an extreme not matched by any other law, probably in the history of this country." More...
Ethanol Subsidies, Mandates May Be Vulnerable
There appears to be a strong public interest in ending ethanol subsidies and mandates, if the popularity of an op-ed on the topic by David Ridenour is any indication... More...
Congressional Black Caucus Shortchanging Poor and Minority Energy Consumers
Energy is the resource on which everything else depends. It makes our jobs, health and living standards possible, says civil rights leader Roy Innis... More...
For Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Cap and Trade, Anyone?
U.S. carbon dioxide emissions dropped by 1.5 percent in 2006. Emissions by participants in Europe's version of "cap and trade" increased by 0.3 percent in 2006... More...
Law of the Sea Treaty Website Helps Close Information Gap About Treaty
The National Center for Public Policy Research has unveiled a website providing educational resources on the Law of the Sea Treaty... 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...
Invasive Species: Animal, Vegetable or Political?
More than 50 bills have been introduced in Congress to stamp out thousands of non-indigenous like mute swans, kudzu, red clover, pigs and starlings, according to Senior Fellow Dana Joel Gattuso... 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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