President’s Road Ban Threatens Forest Health, Hinders Public Access
Roads in National Forests Are Vital for Firefighting and Recreational Access President Bill Clinton's plan, announced on October 13, to ban additional road construction in 40 million acres of national forest wilderness to ostensibly protect pristine wilderness will have the opposite effect by inhibiting efforts to fight forest fires and ...
Federal Tobacco Lawsuit Could Pave Way for Litigation Tax on Other Industries
The Clinton Administration Justice Department suffered yet another blow to its already sagging credibility September 22 when it announced the filing of a multi-billion dollar civil suit against U.S. tobacco companies. As with many pronouncements from the Clinton Justice Department, this one requires close scrutiny. First of all, despite Attorney ...
Setting the Struggle Back, by Michael King
A New Visions Commentary paper published October 1999 by The National Center for Public Policy Research, 501 Capitol Ct., N.E., Washington, DC 20002, 202/543-4110, Fax 202-543-5975, E-Mail [email protected], Web https://nationalcenter.org. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. The unthinkable has happened in Georgia. A duo of so-called civil rights leaders say ...
Al Gor(e)ing Blacks Again, by R.D. Davis
A New Visions Commentary paper published October 1999 by The National Center for Public Policy Research, 501 Capitol Ct., N.E., Washington, DC 20002, 202/543-4110, Fax 202-543-5975, E-Mail [email protected], Web https://nationalcenter.org. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. Al Gore is continuing the Democrats' brainwashing of blacks for their votes. National Review ...
Federal Tobacco Lawsuit Contaminated by Hypocrisy
When the federal government announced on September 22 that it was suing U.S. tobacco companies to recover funds the federal government spends each year on smoking-relating health costs, more than one person quizzically asked: But doesn't the government support tobacco farmers? Yes. This seeming inconsistency in the government's tobacco lawsuit ...
Major Payne, Mrs. Tingle and the ACLU, by Mike Ramey
If one believes the claims of the education establishment, the single biggest threat to America's schools is not low test scores, overcrowded classrooms, the marked ejection of evolution as a valid educational curriculum or the lack of school vouchers. The education establishment thinks its biggest threat is the way Hollywood ...
A Loss of a Friend and Leader, by Colorado Lt. Governor Joe Rogers
I have lost a good friend and Colorado has lost a leader. Vikki Buckley, Colorado's Secretary of State, died on July 14, 1999 at the very young age of 50 due to heart failure. Vikki was a role model, mentor and friend to my entire family. She worked hard to ...
Congress Should Hold Hearings on FDIC Abuse of Citizens
Innocent until proven guilty, right? That's what it says in civics textbooks. But in the real world, sometimes government officials want you to be guilty. If that happens, even if you are innocent, you can be in big trouble. Take the cases of Charles Hurwitz of Texas and Glen Garrett ...
Is Summertime Smog an Increasing Threat to Public Health?
There's no need to sweat summertime smog. Despite the hype, air quality is better now than it has been in decades. By now, most Americans are acquainted with code red days, ozone action days, ozone awareness days, and other smog alerts. These alerts are issued by local governments during the ...
Government Blames Gun Manufacturers for Crime in Public Housing, But Files Lawsuits to Keep Criminals There
Which government activity deserves funding from your tax dollars? * Funding lawsuits to stop public housing authorities from evicting criminals; * Funding a government lawsuit against gun manufacturers on the theory that criminal violence in public housing is largely the fault of gun manufacturers. As contrary as these two activities ...
The Federal Tobacco Lawsuit is Bad Economics, Bad Law & Bad Governing
The federal lawsuit against tobacco companies announced today by Attorney General Janet Reno is bad economics, bad law and bad governing, says a National Policy Analysis #255 paper published by The National Center for Public Policy Research. The paper points out several problems with this lawsuit: * Economics: The Justice ...
The Future of Breast Implant Litigation May Be a Bust for Trial Lawyers
The future of breast implant litigation is beginning to look like a bust to the nation's trial lawyers. Study after study has shown no link between breast implants and disease.1 Trial lawyers hoping to profit from future implant case awards and settlements took a major hit recently when a panel ...
New Technology Will Allow Us to Dodge the Hardest Punches of Hurricanes
"Everyone complains about the weather, but no one does anything about it," Mark Twain once quipped. But now someone at least is doing something about some of its worst effects. A seven-year-old Virginia company called High Performance Technologies, Inc. (HPTi) has developed a super-computer that will help National Oceanic and ...
Junior High and High Schoolers: Think About Your Future! by E. LeMay Lathan
As another school year begins and thoughts of skipping class and missing lessons dance in your minds, think of the consequences. You are no longer little kids being sent off to the cruel confines of school by your parents. You are now young men and women preparing for your futures ...
Let’s Put Some Spirit into Government Aid, by Star Parker
Vice President Al Gore now says he thinks churches and faith-based organizations should partner with government to do charity work, but only if they leave out their spiritual component when they do so. Speaking from personal experience as a former welfare mother, I think Gore made a big mistake when ...
Violence in America, by Mike Green
A New Visions Commentary paper published September 1999 by The National Center for Public Policy Research, 501 Capitol Ct., N.E., Washington, DC 20002, 202/543-4110, Fax 202-543-5975, E-Mail [email protected], Web https://nationalcenter.org. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. Every day, we live comfortably with the notion that we are safe and secure ...
Come to the Table, Don’t “Battle to the Death”, by Michael King
A New Visions Commentary paper published September 1999 by The National Center for Public Policy Research, 501 Capitol Ct., N.E., Washington, DC 20002, 202/543-4110, Fax 202-543-5975, E-Mail [email protected], Web https://nationalcenter.org. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. Atlanta, the Metropolis of the South, has a problem. If not rectified soon, it ...
August 20, 1999
David W, Almasi, Editor The National Center for Public Policy Research Amy Moritz Ridenour, President 20 F Street, NW #700 * Washington, D.C. 20001 (202) 507-6398 * Fax (301) 498-1301 E-Mail: [email protected] Web: https://nationalcenter.org Contents * White House Awards Agency Hammering Working Man * 1996 Clinton Fundraising "Went Beyond Money ...
Linking Abortion to Crime Could Label Unborn Black Americans as Crooks
A new study proposing that legalized abortions have caused a reduction in crime is causing great concern among members of the African-American leadership network Project 21, many of whom fear such ideas could be used to resurrect racist population control programs of the past meant to control the black population ...
Administration, Democratic Party Should Cooperate in Investigation of Interior Department Officials, Says Group
Recent newspaper reports in the Washington Post, Washington Times and elsewhere about overt, illegal partisan political activity at the U.S. Department of the Interior require a full investigation, says The National Center for Public Policy Research. News reports indicate that one or more Interior officials used office time and resources, ...
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