Thursday, March 04, 2010
Deneen Borelli Discusses Health Care and Tea Party Movement on Fox and Friends
On this morning's edition of Fox and Friends, Project 21 full-time fellow Deneen Borelli discussed the Tea Party movement's reaction to President Obama's continuing push for the big government health care plan.
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Project 21's Robin Martin on Michelle Obama's Anti-Obesity Campaign
On a recent edition of the PBS Show "To the Contrary," Project 21's Robin Martin discussed Michelle Obama's health food and anti-obesity campaigns.
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010
The Madness of King Barack
Matt Patterson
has a few words about the President's announcement that the health care reform debate is over.
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Project 21's Deneen Borelli on "Fox and Friends" Thursday Morning
Project 21 fellow Deneen Borelli is scheduled to appear on "Fox and Friends" on the Fox News Channel on Thursday, March 4 at approximately 6:15 AM eastern.
Deneen is expected to talk about health care reform efforts and other breaking morning news. Deneen and her husband, National Center Free Enterprise Project director Tom Borelli, just authored a
commentary on how tea party politics factor into the Obama health care plans that was published on the channel's "Fox Forum."
Check your local listings for Fox News Channel on cable. Fox News Channel is available on channel 118 on Fios, channel 205 on Dish Network and channel 360 on DirecTV.
This post was written by David Almasi, executive director of the National Center for Public Policy Research. Write the author at info@nationalcenter.org. As we occasionally reprint letters on the blog, please note if you prefer that your correspondence be kept private, or only published anonymously.
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Posted by David W. Almasi at 9:15 PM
Articles We'd We'd Like To See Removed from the Internet
I see "The Root," a website run by the Washington Post and Henry Louis Gates, has declined to remove
an article equating black conservatives with criminals just because they are conservative.
Project 21 members
complained about this article on February 24; others have as well, but as usual, black conservatives are considered fair game.
I think their rule is that white people are allowed to think for themselves, but black people aren't, though you'd have to confirm that's what the logic is with the Washington Post and Henry Louis Gates.
Shameful.
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Posted by Amy Ridenour at 6:42 AM
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Treat All Car Companies the Same
Thomas Lifson at American Thinker
asks: "Will GM execs be dragged before Congress?" as the Toyota executives were?
Ordinarily I oppose Congressional show trials of corporate CEOs, finding it repulsive that people responsible for the insolvent Medicare and Social Security systems pretend to be morally qualified to sit in judgment of the business acumen of others, but now that the U.S. government is in the car business, Congress must bend over backwards to be neutral.
While the GM executives are testifying, I hope someone asks them to account for their membership in the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, which lobbies for cap-and-trade legislation. Tax money should not be used for lobbying.
P.S. My opinion in this situation is unrelated to my past ownership of a Chevrolet Cavalier with a so-called "sticky accelerator." Very scary situation to be in. I was able to get out of it by braking as hard as possible while switching the car out of drive and coasting to a stop. I took it to a Chevy dealership for repair, but the dealership said it could not replicate the problem, so I was left to take my chances. I sold the car instead (with full and emphatic disclosure) to a car dealer, and bought my first foreign car of my life to replace it. These days, ironically, I own a Toyota. 83,000 miles on it so far, and no problems.
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Monday, March 01, 2010
Did Charles Rangel Vote for Sarbanes-Oxley?
Yes, on July 25, 2002, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) voted to agree to the conference report for the Corporate and Auditing Accountability and Responsibility Act, better known as Sarbanes-Oxley.
If you just came back from a deserted island, Rep. Rangel has been admonished by the House Ethics Committee for breaking House rules regarding corporate sponsorship of Congressional travel; Rep. Rangel's defense is that he didn't know corporations paid for his travel, his staff did, and he shouldn't be held responsible for the actions of his Congressional staff.
Under Sarbanes-Oxley, corporate CEOs can be held criminally responsible for signing false reports, including reports prepared by staff (as most are).
Regardless of the double-standard Rangel seeks to hide behind, Peter Flaherty of the National Legal and Policy Center -- which broke the Rangel scandal in the first place and is still the best source of information on it -- says it simply is not credible that Rangel didn't know he was violating House rules by accepting direct corporate support for his travel.
Go
here to visit the National Legal and Policy Center's website, which shows pictures of Charlie Rangel at the Caribbean conference, facing a sign listing the conference's many corporate sponsors.
Perhaps next the Congressman will claim he cannot read?
In related Charlie Rangel-scandal news, House Democrats are
increasingly pressuring House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to ask Rangel to step down from his post as chairman of the uber-powerful House Ways and Means Committee.
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Friday, February 26, 2010
One Man's "Talking Points" Might be Another Man's Point
At yesterday's "Health Care Summit," President Obama frequently expressed opposition to the use of talking points during the conversation.
In our biz, that is to say, the non-political public policy arena of the think-tank world, "talking points" are simply a succinct version of one's remarks, distilled in such a way as to present information in an orderly an efficient manner. I assume the same goes for the use of the term in business settings.
As it is likely President Obama is not opposed to succinct presentations, his definition of "talking point" must be something else.
Might that "something else" be "speech uttered for political gain"?
My sense in watching the summit was that that President continuously assumed speakers who disagreed with him were engaging in political rather than policy-oriented speech. He could not, or would not, not see that disagreement with his proposed methods could be based on principle.
This says something, I think, about the insular world he inhabits.
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Posted by Amy Ridenour at 6:26 PM
"We Don't Think the Government Should Be in Control of All This"
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) on the differences between conservatives and the White House on the way to improve our health care system:
Hat tip: RealClearPolitics.
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Posted by Amy Ridenour at 6:25 PM
No Climate Bill In 2010
In
an article by Ed Carson that includes embedded video of our Tom Borelli, Investors Business Daily's "Capital Hill" Politics and markets blog is reporting that President Obama will fail to get his climate legislation adopted by the Senate this year.
This failure could turn out to be the best thing the Obama Administration ever does to reduce unemployment.
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