News from national center for public policy research A wide array of domestic and global news stories; news topics include politics/government, business, technology, religion, sports/entertainment, science/nature, and health/lifestyle.

Latest

May 27, 2011, 12:04 ET Is NOAA Smarter Than Fifth Graders? Fifth Graders Challenge NOAA's Hurricane Prediction with Their Own

The same organization that challenged NOAA to bragging rights for the best hurricane forecast last year using a trained chimp armed only with a pair...

May 25, 2011, 06:00 ET Merck Doubles-Down on Liberalism, Reasserts Support for ObamaCare Following National Center for Public Policy Research Questioning at Shareholder Meeting

Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier gave a liberal answer to every question posed by the National Center for Public Policy Research about Merck's support of...

May 12, 2011, 01:13 ET Ford Commits to Reconsidering USCAP Membership

Ford CEO Alan Mulally has committed to reconsidering his company's membership in a corporate-environmental movement lobby organization, the U.S....

Apr 28, 2011, 02:45 ET Johnson & Johnson CEO William C. Weldon Responds to National Center Questions About Firm's Pro-ObamaCare and Cap-and-Trade Lobbying

Today, the National Center for Public Policy Research hammered Johnson & Johnson CEO William C. Weldon over his company's partisan lobbying at its...

Apr 27, 2011, 12:51 ET Shareholders to Challenge Johnson & Johnson's Support for Left-Wing Policy Agenda: CEO William C. Weldon to Be Questioned on Firm's Failure to Disclose Financial Information on Firm's ObamaCare Lobbying It Pledged to Release Last Year

The National Center for Public Policy Research will grill Johnson & Johnson executives over the firm's lobbying for bigger government Thursday, April ...

Apr 27, 2011, 10:23 ET Climate Change Risk Disclosure Shareholder Proposal Faces GE Shareholders

Officials from the National Center for Public Policy Research will present a Climate Change Risk Disclosure shareholder proposal at the GE...

Feb 28, 2011, 08:41 ET Will Liberal Civil Rights Leaders Show Up to Debate Allegations of Past Tea Party Racism?

Conservative black leader Mychal Massie, chairman of the Project 21 leadership network, will debate Al Sharpton, National Urban League President Marc ...

Dec 13, 2010, 06:00 ET Reid's Lame-Duck Lands Bill Threatens Border Security

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is fast-tracking over 100 federal land-acquisition bills for action during the lame-duck session, despite...

Dec 01, 2010, 08:00 ET NOAA Makes Monkey Out of Chimp: Agency Out-Forecasts Trained Chimpanzee - Who Knew?

NOAA made a monkey out of Dr. James Hansimian, The National Center for Public Policy Research's trained hurricane-forecasting chimp, by producing a...

Nov 23, 2010, 07:45 ET Nationwide Poll of Conservative Voters Finds Big Business Should Fear Tea Party Activists

Companies supporting President Obama's big-government policies risk suffering a dramatic drop in customer favorability, a newly-released nationwide...

May 18, 2010, 12:32 ET Think-Tank Says Trained Chimp Can Predict Hurricanes Better Than NOAA -- And Puts it to the Test

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's track record in predicting the number of Atlantic hurricanes is so abysmal that a trained chimp ...