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Former Republican presidential candidate and businessman Herman Cain told The Daily Caller he’s concerned that the facts of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin’s killing may be getting lost amid the heated political and racial rhetoric surrounding the case. “Where is the investigation?” Cain said in an email to TheDC. “That is the question that should be asked, and answered, before all of this ‘swirling rhetoric’ creates an even more tense situation out of this very tragic incident. We need a complete investigation and all the facts, not a premature ‘War of Words.’” Cain added that were there are some troubling questions about...

Check out video from Glenn’s speech above – he begins at the 51 minute mark Friday night at Osceola Heritage Park in Orlando, Florida, Glenn Beck once again delivered the keynote speech for FreedomWork’s FreePAC. Working with a dedicated staff from his company Mercury Radio Arts as well as a mix of musicians and artists, Glenn experimented with a new type of live event that would inspire and entertain the attendees.

Will Governor Cuomo Hear from the Concerned "Vocal Minority?" Albany, NY- Thousands of concerned New Yorkers from around the state will gather on the West side of the NYS Capitol in Albany on Tuesday, February 12th from 11-2 to voice their concerns over the SAFE Act and support the Second Amendment. This event is being sponsored by many pro-Second Amendment Groups, including turn Albany Upside Down, the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association (NYSRPA), and S.C.O.P.E. Many pro-Second Amendment supporters were offended to hear their concerns marginalized by Governor Cuomo as "a very vocal minority." Organizers are encouraging Governor...

FREEDOM JAMBOREE, THE NATIONAL TEA PARTY STRAW POLL CONVENTION & LEAVENWORTH 10 FREEDOM RIDE Freedom Jamboree is a coalition of grassroots, independent Tea Party and conservative community organizers from around the country, completely independent of any national Tea Party umbrella organization. Freedom Jamboree sent invitations to all national Tea Party potential candidates for 2012 in mid-January, and will invite any new candidates that announce their candidacy in the next few months. Invitations were sent only to those who have supported the Tea Party movement and its Constitutional principles by both word and deed. Many of them already accepted and many...

Chicago, IL- Hundreds of fiscal conservatives from across the country will gather in Illinois for a massive grassroots activist training and a lineup of impressive speakers from the limited-government movement at FreePAC Illinois in the greater Chicago area. The event will begin with grassroots training on a variety of topics, including yard sign blitzing, phone banking, roll call vote research, old and new media strategy, and door-to-door outreach. The evening rally will be headlined by (in no specific order): - Matt Kibbe, FreedomWorks president - Lech Walesa, former president of Poland - Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox News contributor - Rep....

For Release: January 5, 2010 Contact: David Almasi at (202) 543-4110 x11 or dalmasi@nationalcenter.org or Judy Kent at (703) 759-7476 or jkent@nationalcenter.org Spying on Icebergs Instead of Terrorists?Obama Program Diverts Intelligence Assets to Climate Research Washington, DC - As terrorists continue to infiltrate America, the Obama Administration is tasking some of our nation's most elite intelligence-gathering agencies to divert their resources to environmental scientists researching global warming.Experts with The National Center for Public Policy Research are decrying this practice as a distraction from important counterterrorism duties.  They further question if it is a possible avenue to renew climate change subterfuge...

By Deneen Borelli 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. Club Green fights against oil exploration in Alaska and off our coasts. A moratorium on offshore drilling was removed from a temporary spending bill, ending a 26-year ban on new leases at the end of September. While a hit to Club Green, House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-WI) points out this boon to domestic energy production could be fleeting. Obey told reporters,...

Black activist to Obama: Promote job growth by killing cap-and-trade As a candidate, Obama admitted that, under such a plan, "electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket"   Monday, December 14, 2009 If the White House jobs summit is more than a publicity stunt, says Deneen Borelli of the Project 21 black leadership network, Obama should abandon efforts to implement a cap-and-trade policy, as it would kill jobs. "If Obama is sincere about finding ways to fix our country's employment crisis, he should start by putting the brakes on job-killing cap-and-trade legislation," said Deneen Borelli, a Project 21 fellow. Obama is...

Washington, D.C.: Senators will soon consider a resolution to pare back an Environmental Protection Agency plan to regulate greenhouse gases – a plan that would raise energy costs. On June 10, the U.S. Senate will consider a “resolution of disapproval” regarding a 2009 ruling made by the EPA in late 2009 claiming six greenhouse gases are a threat to public health. This makes these gases -- carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride -- subject to regulation under the Clean Air Act. “The EPA’s endangerment finding endangers our economy and our liberty,” said Deneen Borelli, full-time fellow...

Supreme Court Hears “The Threshold Question” EDITOR's NOTE: Outdoor & Shooting Wire editor Jim Shepherd is in Washington for the Supreme Court's hearings on the Constitutionality of the District of Columbia's long-standing firearms ban. Due to the significance of this story, Jim's feature appears in both the Outdoor and Shooting Wires. Additionally, you can hear the actual Supreme Court arguments on the case, a variety of constitutional experts and Jim discussing the case with Michael Bane on Down Range TV (http://www.downrange.tv/rkba/dc-v-heller.htm). There is extremely heavy traffic on the site, but you can hear one of the most important Supreme Court...

WASHINGTON - The midterm congressional elections are seven months away. Republicans are already promising a strong effort to take back the majority and they're attracting candidates who are already making history. At least 30 African-Americans in 16 states are running for the U.S Senate and the House of Representatives. It's a surge of black Republican activism that America hasn't seen since the Reconstruction era. Returning to Slavery? Charles Lollar is one of the candidates. As a major in the Marine Corps Reserves and a businessman, Lollar is taking on the second most powerful Democrat in the House, Majority Leader Steny...

In order to stymie new and proposed requirements that voters present photo identification at the polls, top Democrats cry rivers over those who would become disfranchised for lack of ID cards. If they really cared about these people — of whom there may be millions — Democrats would join Republicans to ensure that they receive ID cards for everyday use. Instead, leading Democrats use vicious racial rhetoric to hammer those who simply want voters to prove they are who they claim to be. “Some people want to put their Confederate flags up again in Virginia,” former NAACP director Benjamin Chavis...

Deneen Borelli spoke tonight at FreePAC and you can watch it below:

Trying to deflect responsibility for his anti-fossil fuel policies, President Obama took the offensive against Republicans by saying, "Lately, we've heard a lot of professional politicians -- a lot of the folks who, you know, are running for a certain office, who shall go unnamed -- they've been talking down new sources of energy. They dismiss wind power. They dismiss solar power. They make jokes about biofuels." Clearly, rising gasoline prices and falling poll numbers are forcing Obama to bend the truth. Marketplace realities, not Republicans, are responsible for the failures of the President's alternative energy agenda. Sadly, the joke...

For those of not yet sick of Sarah Palin news: On the 11/19/10 edition of the Fox News Channel's "Hannity," (video here) Project 21 fellow Deneen Borelli talks about the possibilities of Sarah Palin challenging Barack Obama for the presidency in 2012. Discussing the issue with Deneen are S.E. Cupp lookalike Alicia Menendez of NDN and former mayor and current talk show host Vicent "Buddy" Cianci.

The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in the latest battle over racial discrimination in the college admissions process. The case at hand centers on Abigail Fisher, who was denied admission to the University of Texas at Austin but claims her grades and extra-curricular activities were far superior to those of students chosen ahead of her. Why? Fisher said it’s because she is white and was a victim of the university’s preference toward minority students. School leaders do not deny using race as a criterion but will not say how much of a factor that is in their admission decisions. Last...

(CNSNews.com) – The black leadership network Project 21 accused former Democratic National Committee Chairman and presidential candidate Howard Dean of  “playing the race card” over remarks Dean made at a breakfast event hosted by the Christian Science Monitor on Wednesday in Washington, D.C.Dean said the Tea Party was the “last gasp” of a 55-year-old generation and that most people involved in the Tea Party movement are “almost entirely over 55 and white.”“This is the last gasp of the generation that has trouble with diversity, and the new generation doesn’t,” Dean said. “As I am fond of telling college audiences, you...

There seems to be a fairly coordinated attack going on from the far left to discredit Project 21 by your typical anonymous activists. They have threatened to dig into the backgrounds of P21 members in an effort to discredit black conservatives, thus silence the voices of opposition and I guess they're trying out their tactics on myself first. This is what one just wrote about me on my YouTube channel comment section. I was recently contacted by Project21Revealed and it appears your government name is Robert Parks. Bob Parks is the soft pseudonym you use to cloud your actual background....

After a vote of 333-79 in the U.S. House of Representatives to censure the veteran lawmaker, justice was served in the two-and-a-half year, $2 million ethics investigation of Representative Charles B. Rangel (D-NY). Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) then called Rangel to the well of the House, where she publicly read him the list of his crimes. It lasted less that a minute. Less than 45 seconds, in fact. Then, Congress was on to new business. In January, Rangel will be sworn in for his 21st term with the legislative body. Justice was served? Project 21 member Kevin...

Conventional wisdom holds that the Tea Party movement must be racist—after all, as Keith Olbermann has asked, “where are the people of color” at their rallies? Somehow, Sean Hannity managed to find one last night: Erik Rush, the columnist who first broke the story of Barack Obama’s old pal, Rev. Jeremiah Wright: Wright-gate is familiar ground for Hannity, which, while valid and relevant, even many of his supporters are probably tired of revisiting, so let’s instead focus on this quote: RUSH: The correspondence and so forth, it’s like, I’m a slime, ‘How can you get on TV with that horrible...