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1997 Index

 

December 1997

• National Policy Analysis #179: A Real "It's a Wonderful Life" - December 1997
• If Santa Claus Was an Environmentalist...
• Top Ten Dumbest Things Environmental Extremists Did or Said in 1997 (As reported in Scoop #182) - December 19, 1997
• NPA #178: A Recess Appointment of Bill Lann Lee May Send Republicans to the Head of the Class - December 1997
• NPA #177: The Myth of Scientific Consensus on Global Warming - December 1997
• NPA #176: While Congress Debates, Citizens Legislate Campaign Finance Reform - December 1997
• NPA #175: Government Use of Contingency Fee Lawyers Works Against Public Interest - December 1997
• Black America 1997: How Government Harms Charities... And How Some are Succeeding Anyway (Abridged Version)
• Kyoto Daily Bulletin #8 - December 10, 1997
• Kyoto Daily Bulletin #7 - December 9, 1997
• Kyoto Daily Bulletin #6 - December 8, 1997
• Kyoto Daily Bulletin #5 - December 5, 1997
• Kyoto Daily Bulletin #4 - December 4, 1997
• Kyoto Daily Bulletin #3 - December 3, 1997
• Kyoto Daily Bulletin #2 - December 2, 1997
• Kyoto Daily Bulletin #1 - December 1, 1997
• Kyoto Earth Summit Fact Kit
  

November 1997

• Piscataway Payoff Delays Civil Rights Reform - November 1997
• Political Money Monitor #3 - November 21, 1997
• Larger Public Health Risks Overlooked in the Global Warming Debate - November 1997
• Black America 1997: How Government Harms Charities... And How Some are Succeeding Anyway (Abridged Version)
• How Social Security Shortchanges Black Americans - November 1997
• Is UNICEF Aiding AIDS? - November 1997
• Political Money Monitor Issue #2 -- November 14, 1997
• Forbes Praises Greenspan and Gregg on Social Security Reform - November 1997
• President Clinton Violates His Own Executive Order on "Environmental Justice"; Minority Health Jeopardized by Range of Administration's Environmental Initiatives - November 1997
  

October 1997

• Speech of National Center Vice President David Ridenour at Global Warming Rally at the U.S. Capitol - October 1997
• New Newsletter! Political Money Monitor Issue #1
• National Policy Analysis #174: The New "Clinton-Lite" Global Warming Strategy: Half the Controversy, Same Bad Economic Aftertaste - October 1997
• Support for Campaign Finance Reform Improperly Measured by Poorly Worded L.A. Times Poll - October 1997
• Survey of State Climate Experts Casts Doubt on Link Between Human Activity and Global Warming - October 1997
• National Policy Analysis #173: President's Interpretation of "Environmental Justice" Jeopardizes Minority Health and Well-Being - October 1997
• Group Launches Presidential Sexual Harassment TV & Radio Commercials, Telephone Hotline - October 1997
  

September 1997

• National Policy Analysis #172: Senator Wellstone Sticks Up for Kids ...Until Trial Lawyers Ask him for a Favor - September 1997
• National Policy Analysis #171: Without Reform, Trial Lawyers, Not States or Individuals, Will Be Biggest Winners from Tobacco Settlement - September 1997
• An Answer to America's "Race Question" - September 1997
• The Emergence of Clarence Thomas - September 1997
• National Policy Analysis #169: Farmers to Bear Brunt of New Clean Air Standards - September 1997
• Project 21 Joins NAACP In Criticizing New National Academic Tests Proposed By the Clinton Administration - September 1997
• NAACP: Serious Problems With The Proposed Voluntary National Tests of Reading and Mathematics - September 1997
• A Constitutional Right As Fragile As The Ecosystem - September 1997
  

August 1997

• National Policy Analysis #168: Scholarship Act Is D.C. Youngsters' Best Hope for Education - August 1997
• The Green Pages: A Directory of Property Rights, Wise Use and Free Market Environmental Organizations - August 1997
• Memorandum to Congressional Oversight Committee Chairmen: Forbes Assails Clinton's Character Assassins - August 1997
• Press Release: Forbes Rips Clinton as New Report Shows Teen Drug Use Still Soaring - August 1997
• Clinton Cabinet Secretary Says Folks Who Disagree With Him Are "Un-American" - August 1997
• National Policy Analysis #167: Does Speaker Gingrich Lack the Courage To Eliminate Racial Preferences? - August 1997
• National Policy Analysis #166: Let's Hold Juveniles Responsible for Their Crimes - August 1997
• The Civil Rights Act of 1997 (HR 1909): What It Does - August 1997
• For the First Time Since 1974 More Americans Approve of the Performance of Congress Than Disapprove - August 1997
• Australia to Host Conference Featuring Pre-Eminent Climate Scientists - August 1997

July 1997

• Are You Rich? If You Live Paycheck to Paycheck, There's a Good Chance the Clinton Administration Thinks So - July 1997
• Why Doesn't Senator Ted Kennedy Believe in Free Speech? - July 1997
• D.C. Initiative To Legalize Marijuana A Bad Idea, But Why Isn't the President Saying So? - July 1997
• Administration Declines to Investigate When Major Union Exploits Workers - July 1997
• Don't Let Them Tell You Taxes Haven't Gone Up - July 1997
• Should It Be Illegal to Have a Rosary in School? - July 1997
• Forbes Launches Radio Campaign Against Marijuana Legalization in D.C. - July 1997
• Talking Points on the Environment #34: Myths and Facts About Global Warming - July 1997
• Talking Points on the Environment #33: Why Global Warming Might be Good - July 1997
• Talking Points on the Environment #32: Top 5 Reasons the EPA's Proposed New Clean Air Standards Are a Bad Idea - July 1997
• Talking Points on the Environment #31: EPA's New Clean Air Standards Could Place Children at Greater Risk - July 1997
• National Policy Analysis #165: Cure to Global Warming Could Be Worse Than the Disease - July 1997
• Glickman Summit Yet Another Rout of GOP - Regulatory Reform Reaps Benefits for Poor - July 1997
• Global Warming, If It Occurs, Could Lower Sea Level - July 1997
• Forbes Memo on "Expanding the IRS As We Know It" - July 1997
  

June 1997

• Taxpayers, Religious People, Internet Users, Handguns Owners Shut Out of Court - June 1997
• The Clinton Administration's Great Racial Divide - June 1997
• Abuse of Power... Now It's the Secret Service - June 1997
• State Authority/Gun Rights: Full Text, Including Opinions, of the Supreme Court Decision in Printz v. United States - 1997
• Internet Regulation: Full Text of the Supreme Court Decision in Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union - June 1997
• Line Item Veto: Full text of the Supreme Court Decision in Raines v. Byrd - June 1997
• Assisted Suicide: Full Text of the Supreme Court Decision inVacco v. Quill - June 1997
• Assisted Suicide: Full Text of the Supreme Court Decision in Washington v. Glucksberg - June 1997
• Sex Parties in the Barracks Okay, Says Congressman - June 1997
• Religious Freedom: Full Text of the Supreme Court Decision in City of Boerne v. Flores, Archbishop of San Antonio, et al - June 1997
• John 3:16 Versus the Cincinnati Reds - June 1997
• Congress Warned About Chinese Takeover of U.S. Bases in Panama - June 1997
• National Policy Analysis #164: New Clean Air Standards Could Place Children at Greater Risk - June 1997
• Press Release: Racial Reconciliation Needs to Start at the White House - June 1997
• National Policy Analysis #163: Top Ten Acts of The Clinton Administration That Divide Americans By Race and Ethnicity - June 1997
• "Clinton's Homeless" to Panhandle Outside the White House - June 1997
• News Conference on Eco-Terrorist Violence - June 1997
• Alaska Rejects President's Christmas Tree Request - June 1997
• Environmental and Property Rights Activists to Converge on Washington - June 1997
• Liability Reform for Volunteer Service Act (S. 514): What it Does - June 1997
  

May 1997

• Rep. Henry Hyde's May 22 Letter to Attorney General Reno on Investigating Campaign Contributions' Possible Effect on Policy - May 1997
• Full Text of the Supreme Court Decision in William Jefferson Clinton v. Paula Corbin Jones - May 27, 1997
• The Property Rights Betrayal - May 1997
• Letter of Rep. Barr to Ken Starr Regarding Transmittal of Information Indicating Grounds for Impeachment of May 8, 1997 - May 1997
• Letter #2 of Rep. Barr to the House Judiciary Committee Regarding Impeachment of April 15, 1997 - May 1997
• Letter #1 of Rep. Barr to the House Judiciary Committee Regarding Impeachment of March 11, 1997 - May 1997
• Project 21 Asks Congress to Stop Letting Political Correctness Determine How We Fight AIDS - May 1997
• Letter from Project 21 to the Congressional Black Caucus Regarding AIDS - May 1997
• The Way Things Ought to Be - Not! Another Update on the Case of the Boy Who Was Forbidden to Read Limbaugh in School - May 1997
• Senate Religious Persecution Task Force: Goals & Challenges - May 1997
• H.R. 993, The AmeriCorps Program Elimination Act: What It Does - May 1997
• EPA's New Standards Will Likely Do More Harm Than Good - May 1997
• National Policy Analysis #162 : Should Public Health Be Sacrificed At the Altar of Political Correctness?-May 1997
• Background on Administration Cryptography Policy - May 1997
• Testimony of Phyllis Schlafly on Cryptography to the U.S. House - May 1997
• Letter to Congressman Fox on Funding for the Legal Services Corporation - May 1997
• Rohrabacher Letter Describes Status of Patent Legislation - May 1997
• The Public Has a Right to Know: It's Time to Allow Cameras in Federal Courts - May 1997
• Forbes Announces Radio Ad Campaign to Block Budget Deal - May 1997

April 1997

• Government Knows Best? The Clinton FTC vs. The Consumer - April 1997
• National Policy Analysis #161: Does the U.S. Senate Care About Creating New Jobs? - April 1997
• How Each Senator Voted on the Chemical Weapons Treaty - April 1997
• Repealing Rent Control in New York City - April 1997
• Text of the Proposed Religious Freedom Constitutional Amendment - April 1997
• What the Camp-Kennelly Adoption Promotion Act (HR 867) of 1997 Does - April 1997
• What the The Child Abuse and Neglect Enforcement Act (CANEA) Does - April 1997
• What the Budget Process Reform Act (H.R. 1372) Would Do - April 1997
• Earth Day Information Center Fact Sheet - April 1997
• New Earth Day Information Center Makes Experts on Environmental Topics Available to the Media - April 1997
• Senate Should Not Disrupt Plans for Greater Competition in International Air Travel - April 1997
• Citizens' Letter on the Chemical Weapons Treaty - April 1997
• The Case Against the Chemical Weapons Convention - April 1997
• Forbes Lauches Radio Campaign Against Chemical Weapons Treaty April 1997
• Defeat the Chemical Weapons Treaty by Phyllis Schlafly - April 1997
• How Many Days Did the American Worker Work for the Government in 1996? - April 1997
• Speech of National Center President Amy Moritz Ridenour at the Tax Day Rally - April 15, 1997
• Speech of National Center Vice President David Ridenour at a Press Conference on the Tax-Deductibility of Payroll Taxes
• What Senator John Ashcroft's Working Americans Wage Restoration Act Would Do - April 1997
• Steve Forbes Says "Here They Go Again!" Regarding Clinton Administration's Attempt to Raise Taxes Without Congressional Approval - April 1997

March 1997

• House Majority Leader Signals Intentions on the National Endowment for the Arts - March 1997
• Key Republican Subverts Reform of Legal Services - March 1997
• Steve Forbes Says "Seize the High Ground on Health Care!" - March 1997
• Religion Equals Sex? Government Agency Considers Religous Symbols Equivalent to Sexually-Suggestive Items - March 1997
• The Way Things Ought to Be - Not! An Update on the Case of the Boy Who Was Forbidden to Read Limbaugh in School - March 1997
• What Does the Assisted Suicide Funding Restriction Act Do? - March 1997
• Steve Forbes Says: Act Like a Majority! - March 1997
• The Working Families Protection Act (H.R. 1) -- What It Does - March 1997

February 1997

• Notes Released from Top-Secret Liberal Environmental Grantmakers Association Strategy Meeting - February 1997
• National Policy Analysis #160: Regulatory Relief Initiatives During the 104th Congress February 1997

January 1997

• National Policy Analysis #158: This New Crusade Would Help Mrs. Clinton Regain Her Popularity - January 1997
• National Policy Analysis #157: Reforming Social Security May Be (Relatively) Easy After All - January 1997

 

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