The EPA is a Job Killing Machine

Washington, D.C. – In a hearing today the Subcommittee on Energy and Power will examine the impact that EPA regulation of greenhouse gases will have on the job market.

“I applaud subcommittee chairman Ed Whitfield (KY) effort to expose the consequences of EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions on the job market. The EPA is taking the lead in advancing Obama’s war on fossil fuels and the agency’s primary weapon is to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Unfortunately for hard working Americans, the cost of EPA’s action will make energy prices higher, drive jobs overseas and force more citizens to the unemployment line. Under the Obama Administration, the EPA has been transformed to a job killing machine,” said Deneen Borelli, full-time fellow of the National Center-sponsored Project 21 black conservative leadership network. Read the story »

Black Activist Speaks Out Against Agenda that Assures Suffering

Washington, D.C. – The Obama Administration proposed today that the federal government cut home heating assistance in half, even as the Administration continues to fight for controversial programs that will raise the price of energy.

The Obama Administration’s FY2012 budget, released today, reduces funding to the Low Income Home Energy Program (LIPHEAP) to $2.57 billion — roughly in half compared with the 2009 budget. In its analysis, the Office of Management and Budget justifies the cut by reporting that “energy prices are now significantly lower, and the prior level is no longer sustainable.” Read the story »

Proposal to Limit EPA Emissions Rules Will Save Jobs, Incomes

Washington, D.C. – A proposal to keep the EPA from usurping the authority of elected lawmakers will receive a hearing this week, marking one of the first attempts by the new Congress to blunt the Obama Administration’s regulatory efforts to achieve unpopular “green” goals.

“After failing to legislatively enact cap-and-trade emissions regulations, the Obama Administration relied on a perverted interpretation of the Clean Air Act. America rang in the new year to new rules on energy and manufacturing that could cause our nation’s economic engine to seize up,” said Dana Joel Gattuso, director of the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Center for Environmental and Regulatory Affairs.

On February 9, the Energy and Power Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on the discussion draft of “The Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011.” This proposal, set to be introduced by Senator James Inhofe and Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, specifies that the Clean Air Act is not to be used to address climate change and thereby bars EPA regulators from imposing and enforcing carbon restrictions based on the Act. Read the story »

Civil Rights Leaders Urged to Denounce Leftist Calls for Violence Against Black Justice

Washington, D.C. – Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli is urging liberal civil right leaders to denounce violent, racist rhetoric against black Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas with the same vigor with which they sought out alleged racial extremism within the tea party movement.

“The NAACP, Al Sharpton, Marc Morial of the National Urban League and others command national attention whenever they allege racism in the tea party movement, but they’ve so far ignored the revolting comments caught on video in which leftists call for the hanging of a black Supreme Court justice,” noted Borelli, who is a frequent speaker at tea party events. “Comments such as these must be denounced far and wide, regardless of the political orientation of the person saying it. Calls for torture and lynching are not a matter of left and right — they are always wrong.” Read the story »

Black Conservatives Speak Out on Obama’s State of the Union Address

Washington, D.C. – With the completion of President Obama’s second State of the Union Address, members of the Project 21 black leadership network are assessing the President’s rhetoric before Congress and the direction in which he wants to take the nation:

Mychal Massie: “Has Obama had an epiphany, or is he still dazed from his shellacking from the American people in the November elections? From the beginning, he was a free-spending Keynesian. Now he’s talking about capping spending and ending earmarks. It’s inconsistent with his advocacy thus far. It’s too much like when Bill Clinton declared that the ‘era of big government’ was over back in his 1996 address. Changing the language without changing the behavior is nothing more than obfuscation, and would signal that the only one Obama seeks to benefit is himself.” (Mychal Massie is the chairman of the Project 21 black leadership network.) Read the story »

Black Conservatives Comment on the Needs of the Nation Prior to Obama’s State of the Union Address

Washington, D.C. – Black conservatives with the Project 21 leadership network have low expectations regarding the State of the Union Address.

While Project 21 members see a nation looking for reassurance that the government is acting in its best interest and focusing on the key issues of economic stability and job creation, they do not expect more than rhetoric from President Obama.

“When the polite applause and the partisan demonstrations of loyalty cease in the wake of tonight’s address, will we have seen anything more than the same campaign-style rhetoric we have come to expect from this president? I don’t think so,” said Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie. Read the story »

Gun “Restrictions” And Limiting Magazine Capacity

It seems that every time another deranged so and so enters a “gun free zone” and massacres one or more people, irrational subjects begin to wail once again demanding more gun control. I am told that gun control is now considered a bad word and the catch term today is gun restrictions. Because, don’t you know, some idiot decided to coin a ridiculous phrase that says, “all rights come with restrictions”.

I answered someone just the other day when they demanded smaller gun magazines, that the continued creation of gun free zones and gun control measures was doing what in limiting gun violence? Even a close, lifelong friend suggested to me that perhaps it was time to limit magazine capacity. Former V.P. Dick Cheney suggested it and hoards of gun haters, and not so much gun haters, are “compromising” to say it’s reasonable to restrict gun rights in this fashion because………well, why is it? Read the story »

Obama Won’t Create Jobs or Innovation by Hiring Progressive CEO Jeff Immelt

Washington, D.C. – President Barack Obama’s appointment of General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt to lead the White House’s new “President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness” does not signal a serious attitude toward thoughtful and open discussion on ways to jumpstart the stalled American economy.

Experts with the National Center for Public Policy Research cite Immelt’s close ties with Obama on policy matters such as cap-and-trade and his ineffective leadership at GE as proof that this new council will not possess the dynamic leadership it deserves. Read the story »