Black Leadership Network Opposes Civil Rights Nominee; Senate Urged to Reject Clinton’s Choice to Implement Civil Rights Policy – February 1999
Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 urge the U.S. Senate to reject President Clinton's expected renomination of activist lawyer Bill Lann Lee as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Lee's unrelenting implemention of divisive racial preference policies while serving as ...
Letter to Conservatives by Paul M. Weyrich
Ms. Amy Ridenour National Center for Public Policy Research 777 N. Capitol Street, NE Suite 803 Washington, D.C. 20001-4201 Dear Ms. Ridenour: Late last year, I had the opportunity of speaking to the Conservative Leadership Conference on the state of the conservative movement. I've given similar talks in the past, ...
A Lawsuit… Or A House of Cards?
Issue Sixteen February 12, 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.orgContents:* A Lawsuit... Or A House of Cards? * Americans May Not Trust Lawyers... But TV Certainly ...
Impeachment Infringes on My Family Time, by E. LeMay Lathan
Is President Clinton above the law? I keep asking myself that question as I listen to the impeachment proceedings. I've heard both the White House's excuses and the accusations of the Office of Independent Counsel, and I don't have a problem sorting through this mess. While not admitting all the ...
To Assure That the Republican Party is Open and Accessible to All, by Bishop Earl Jackson Sr.
When a political party goes on public record to establish a foundational principle, that declaration should be studiously upheld and its members should hold one another accountable for its violation. Many Republicans and conservatives remember the phrase "to assure that the Republican Party is open and accessible to all" as ...
Why I Work on Martin’s Birthday, by C. Mason Weaver
A New Visions Commentary paper published February 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 worked hard during the Martin Luther King Holiday. I always try very hard ...
Clinton’s Urban Sprawl Program Threatens Freedom and the Environment
What percentage of U.S. land do you think has been developed? 50%? 25%? 10%? Answer: Less than 5%. Yet the Clinton Administration believes that taxpayers must pay for a multi-billion dollar land acquisition program aimed at curbing "urban sprawl" - the suburbanization of rural areas that it believes is luring ...
Jury Tampering in Exxon Valdez Trial Pollutes America’s System of Justice
There's a penchant among American juries for extracting a pound of flesh and then some from big, bad corporations with deeper-than-deep pockets. Americans have always loved striking a blow for the little guy, and many believe that one of the best ways to do it is to bash a Fortune ...
White House Tries to Buy Support for Greenhouse Gas Reductions, by John Carlisle
One of the more surprising developments in the ongoing global warming debate is the Clinton Administration's success in lining up major corporate support for the greenhouse gas reductions stipulated under the Kyoto Protocol. Signed by the United States and 158 other nations in Kyoto, Japan in December 1997 but as ...
New York Is Better Off Without Hillary Clinton
I hope Hillary Clinton doesn't run for Senate in New York. First and foremost, the Clinton Age of Scandal should end. It isn't good for America and it's particularly bad for our children. While Mrs. Clinton may not have been responsible for the President's misbehavior with Monica Lewinsky (although she ...
Behavior of World’s Glaciers Fails to Prove Global Warming Theory, by John Carlisle
Global warming theory proponents have resorted to the politics of fear to drive their point home. They argue that man-made greenhouse gases are already causing the world's glaciers to melt, causing sea levels to rise and threatening humanity with a multitude of economic and environmental calamities. A recent Smithsonian Institution ...
Scoop #208
The National Center for Public Policy Research Amy Ridenour, President 777 N. Capitol St., NE, Suite 803 * Washington, D.C. 20001 (202) 507-6398 * Fax (301) 498-1301 E-Mail: [email protected] Web: https://nationalcenter.orgContents * Congress' Western Caucus Seeks to Repair Problems Westerners Have in Dealing with the Federal Government * Inheritance and ...
Black Leadership Network Warns Black Community Against Supporting Clinton Defense; Clinton’s Legal Maneuvers Could Turn Back the Clock on Civil Rights
While African-American support for President Bill Clinton has been high throughout the impeachment proceedings against Clinton, members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 warn that - should Clinton succeed in using legal wrangling to escape a full impeachment trial - civil rights gains could be eroded. "If Bill Clinton ...
Black Leadership Network Applauds Supreme Court for Striking Down Sampling
Project 21 Says Actual Headcount is Best Way to Conduct Census The January 25 U.S. Supreme Court ruling requiring the 2000 census be conducted through a person-by-person headcount was applauded by the members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 as a victory for fairness and equality. Project 21 members ...
January 22, 1999
The National Center for Public Policy Research Amy Ridenour, President 777 N. Capitol St., NE, Suite 803 * Washington, D.C. 20001 (202) 507-6398 * Fax (301) 498-1301 E-Mail: [email protected] Web: https://nationalcenter.org Contents * AOL May Put Speed Bump on the Information Superhighway * Clinton's Tobacco Lawsuit is Bad Policy and ...
Rural Sprawl Outpaces Urban Sprawl
On January 11, 1999, Vice President Al Gore unveiled the Administration's $10 billion program to stop urban sprawl by preserving open space and curbing suburbs. But urban sprawl isn't the problem the Vice President claims it is, with land set asides (or, what could be termed "rural sprawl") outpacing urban ...
Black Americans Would Benefit From Private Social Security Accounts
President Clinton's announcement in his January State of the Union speech that he supports investing Social Security funds in the stock market was a half-step in the right direction for saving Social Security. Unfortunately, the President's prescription did nothing to end a pervasive problem with the current system: As currently ...
Global Warming Not Responsible for 1998’s Unusual Weather
The U.S. may have experienced more than its fair share of unusual weather this past year, but this has nothing to do with global warming. Global warming theory advocates were quick to seize on last summer's heat waves and the devastation caused by Hurricane Mitch as evidence that global warming ...
Impeachment and the Rule of Law, by Faye Anderson
A New Visions Commentary paper published January 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. It's the rule of law, stupid. The fundamental principle that holds together our ...
AOL May Put Speed Bump on the Information Superhighway
Imagine coming home from a busy day at work, settling down in your favorite chair, and turning on some entertainment. Today, that is likely to mean television or the stereo. But soon your options could be very different. If government doesn't say no, a coming merger between the Internet and ...
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