Lawmakers Attempt to Tamper With Senate Jury on Global Warming Treaty
During the Senate impeachment inquiry, Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) warned the White House and his colleagues, "Don't tamper with this jury." Today, jury tampering is underway on another important matter before the Senate: Consideration of the Kyoto global warming treaty. In December 1997, representatives of some 160 nations agreed to ...
A Federal Tobacco Lawsuit: Bad Economics, Bad Law and Bad Governing
The way some politicians go on about tobacco, you'd never know that it is government's fine coffers that profit the most from cigarettes. Has any politician ever mentioned that government rakes in 53 cents per pack of cigarettes sold1 while tobacco companies make about 28 cents?2 The 53 cents, by ...
June 30, 1999
Contents: * Fish and Wildlife Service to Compensate Whistle-blower * Should Our Standards for Science Be Lower Than for Government? * Elderly Woman Swimming Upstream, Thanks to Salmon Regulations Fish and Wildlife Service to Compensate Whistle-Blower; Whistle-Blower Had Objected to Diversion to "Slush Fund" Earlier this month, the U.S. Fish ...
Black Investing Up, Survey Says Blacks Consider Saving Their #1 Priority
Findings of a recent study show black Americans are planning to start investing at higher rates than whites. Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 are excited at future prospects of wealth and prosperity this will create for the black community. "We have made great strides in our fight ...
Black Investing Up, Survey Says Blacks Consider Saving to be #1 Priority – June 1999
Findings of a recent study show black Americans are planning to start investing at higher rates than whites. Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 are excited at future prospects of wealth and prosperity this will create for the black community."We have made great strides in our fight for ...
Break the Chains of Big Government: African-American Leadership Network Hopes Black Holiday of Juneteenth Will Promote Independence
When "Juneteenth" is observed on June 19, the members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 ask African-Americans everywhere to use the celebration of education, self-development and respect to examine and reassess the reliance of many in the black community on government support. "We need to be mindful of what ...
Break the Chains of Big Government: African-American Leadership Network Hopes Black Holiday of Juneteenth Will Promote Independence – June 1999
When "Juneteenth" is observed on June 19, the members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 ask African-Americans everywhere to use the celebration of education, self-development and respect to examine and reassess the reliance of many in the black community on government support."We need to be mindful of what the ...
Proposed Campaign Finance Law Restricts Citizen Participation in the Electoral Process
New limits on the ability of ordinary Americans, organizations and businesses to participate in political debate are being rushed through Congress. These proposals could hinder public discussion of the voting records and beliefs of political candidates, particularly incumbents. "There has never been a problem of too little information being available ...
Internet Regulation Alert
Fiscal conservatives/libertarians and social conservatives are joining together to fight federal government regulation of the Internet. At stake is low-cost Internet access, the continued unfettered technological improvement of the Internet and Americans' Internet freedoms. The National Center for Public Policy Research has examined, in The Internet Works Best Without Government ...
Federal Court’s Decision to Strike Down Air Standards Will Save Lives
The recent federal court decision striking down the Environmental Protection Agency's new, more stringent air quality standards was a major victory not only for government accountability advocates, but for public health. In 1997, EPA Administrator Carol Browner announced new air quality standards requiring a 25% reduction in ozone emissions and ...
Public School Violence: An Adult Problem, by Mike Green
A New Visions Commentary paper published June 1999 by The National Center for Public Policy Research, 501 Capitol Court, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002, 202/543-4110, Fax 202/543-5975, E-Mail [email protected], Web https://nationalcenter.org. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. School violence in Colorado, Georgia and elsewhere has left us with a cold-hearted message ...
For Our Children’s Future, Replace Affirmative Action
Affirmative action doesn't work. Mentoring, on the other hand, is proving to be a smashing success. It truly helps minorities in schools and the workplace without creating the hard feeling bred by quotas. I recently had the pleasure of meeting Norman McLean, the highest-ranking college administrator in England. In 1992, ...
Education, Education, Education, by E. LaMay Lathan
Education can change a life. Given its importance, why are so many black kids steering clear of it like the plague? We can't just blame the kids when teachers, schools, hardships, single-parent households and other things share responsibility. We've provided kids with plenty of ways not to get a good ...
Be Thankful for Dads
Father's Day is not only a day to express our gratitude for all our fathers have done for us, but also a day to reflect on the importance of fathers to society as a whole. Although a January 1999 poll found that 72 percent of Americans believe that fatherlessness is ...
Longing for Fathers, by Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson
A New Visions Commentary paper published June 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. I once spoke to approximately 57 young men at a youth detention center in Prattville, ...
Greater Intervention and Military Cutbacks are a Deadly Combination, by Jason Morrow
What if they threw a war and nobody came? As a result of current defense policies, such a scenario is not far out of the realm of possibility. In a classic case of trying to have his cake and eat it too, President Clinton has consistently pushed for base closings ...
Defense 2.0: America’s Military Badly Needs an Upgrade, by Jason Morrow
The average U.S. warplane finished production in 1979, the same year that the last Chevy Nova rolled off the assembly line.1 But while most Novas have long been banished to the scrap heap, the Air Force is still expected to keep its aging fleet of aircraft running with insufficient spare ...
May 28, 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 * Guam Governor May Have Tried to Buy Clinton Influence * Teachers Unions Required to ...
May 21, 1999
Issue Eighteen May 21, 1999 The National Center for Public Policy Research Amy Moritz Ridenour, President 20 F Street NW, Suite 700 Washington, D.C. 20001 Phone (202) 507-6398 Fax (301) 498-1301 [email protected] https://nationalcenter.org Contents: * Trial Lawyers and the DOJ... Partners in Crime? * 4 our of 5 Dentists Warn: ...
Legal Brief: Trial Lawyers and the DOJ… Partners in Crime?; 4 our of 5 Dentists Warn: Frivolous Lawsuits Dangerous to Common Sense; Woman Sues After Being Left in Doghouse; Man Kan’t Spel, Sues Instead
Trial Lawyers and the DOJ... Partners in Crime?As head of the U.S. Department of Justice, Attorney General Janet Reno currently oversees a $20 billion annual budget, and has over 9,100 lawyers at her disposal. Make that 9,100 plus 40. The Justice Department's proposed budget for FY 2000 includes a request ...
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