Protesters Claim War is About Oil, Yet Oppose Safe Nuclear Energy & Domestic Energy Alternatives
BACKGROUND: As the war to replace the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq continues, protesters on the political left continue to claim that the U.S. government's military action is designed to acquire Iraqi oil.1 TEN SECOND RESPONSE: Gulf War II is properly understood as the continuation and completion of Gulf War ...
Hans Blix Worries… About Global Warming
DATE: March 15, 2003 BACKGROUND: In an interview with MTV dated March 13, U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said: "On big issues like war in Iraq, but in many other issues they simply must be multilateral. There's no other way around. You have the instances like the global warming ...
Statement of The National Center for Public Policy Research on the March 5, 2003 Asbestos Hearing in the U.S. Senate
The National Center for Public Policy Research is delighted that the Senate Judiciary Committee is meeting today to further investigate options for mitigating at least some of the damage caused by the asbestos litigation crisis. Personal injury lawyers have sued the companies that mined and produced asbestos into bankruptcy and ...
Shattered Dreams – New Book Details 100 Stories of Regulatory Abuse
To highlight the staggering degree to which government regulations can harm average Americans, The National Center for Public Policy Research's John P. McGovern, M.D. Center for Environmental and Regulatory Affairs has published its fourth compilation of stories of victims of regulatory and government abuse. The publication, entitled Shattered Dreams: 100 ...
The Medical Liability Crisis Affects Us All, by Edmund F. Haislmaier
January saw an outbreak of an unfamiliar phenomenon in the U.S. - strikes by doctors. While such strikes are commonplace in countries with nationalized health systems, in the U.S. they have been relatively rare. But unlike their foreign counterparts, U.S. doctors aren't striking over pay or working conditions. Rather, physicians ...
Winter Weather Advisory: Snowstorms Aren’t Evidence of Global Warming
"The average American in the upper Midwest and the Northeast... [is following] the wind-chill factor more avidly than sports statistics... Floridians... [are] watching their crops freeze..." Another complaint about this year's weather? No. It's a description of the winter of 1977 from The Weather Conspiracy,1 a book published over 25 ...
Hollywood Goes Political Yet Again: “Issues Placement” Strategy Promotes Government-Run Health Care
In the 1997 movie "As Good As It Gets," the single-mom waitress played by Helen Hunt delighted audiences when she cursed her HMO. The response was spontaneous and genuine, but Hunt's lines were far from spontaneous - they actually were written by a Washington, D.C. activist group pushing hard for ...
Nonsense By Any Other Name: Calling Carbon Dioxide A Pollutant Doesn’t Make It A Pollutant, by Gerald Marsh
It is becoming increasingly fashionable to maintain that carbon dioxide is a pollutant, one that should be regulated under the Clean Air Act. Seven Northeastern states have even announced their intention to sue the administration for its failure to regulate power plant emissions of carbon dioxide under the Act. They ...
Overzealous Environmental Rules Impede U.S. Military Training
If a Marine landing on Red Beach at Camp Pendleton travels off one of the three authorized roads leaving the beach, he risks a $50,000 fine and other penalties. He's not being disciplined for putting himself or his fellow soldiers at risk. Instead, he damaged the nesting area of the ...
A Salute to Our Troops, by Jerry Brooks
A New Visions Commentary paper published March 2003 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've made a new friend on the Internet over the past few months ...
Ending Anti-Conservative Discrimination, For the Children, by Bob Parks
A New Visions Commentary paper published March 2003 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. Warning: The following statements made by the author will be construed by some ...
Estrada Confirmation Controversy Shows Mixed-Up Liberal Priorities, by Geoffrey Moore
A New Visions Commentary paper published March 2003 by The National Center for Public Policy Research, 501 Capitol Ct., N.E., Washington, DC 20002, 202/543-4110, Fax 202-54-5975, E-Mail [email protected], Web https://nationalcenter.org. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. Conservative African-Americans, we aren't alone. With the liberal campaign against the judicial nomination of ...
Peace Activists Don’t Know Jack, by Jerry Brooks
A New Visions Commentary paper published March 2003 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 vast majority of people don't know Jack Frazier. Frazier now lives in ...
Representative Markey and Supporters: Wrong on ANWR, by Christopher Burger
BACKGROUND: Congressman Edward Markey (D-MA) introduced a bill on February 13, 2003 to designate nearly 1.6 million acres of the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) as wilderness, thus permanently banning oil and gas exploration in the area.1 TEN SECOND RESPONSE: Oil exploration in ANWR can be ...
DaimlerChrysler Sends Letter of Apology to Conservative Community
The National Center for Public Policy Research received today via FedEx a handwritten apology dated February 13 from Mr. Frank Fountain, Senior Vice President for Government Affairs of the DaimlerChrysler Corporation. In January, Mr. Fountain told reporter Marc Morano from CNSNews.com that conservative critics of Jesse Jackson "are conservatives; they ...
Sierra Club Calls on IRS to Audit SUV Owners
BACKGROUND: The Sierra Club on February 11 issued a press release beginning: "The Sierra Club today urged the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to aggressively audit the returns of taxpayers who take advantage of a tax loophole subsidizing their purchases of gas-guzzling SUVs. In a letter to the IRS, the group ...
Project 21 Press Release: African-American Activists Criticize Senate Liberals for Delaying Historic Vote on Hispanic Nominee
African-Americans affiliated with the conservative black leadership network Project 21 are outraged by stall tactics being threatened by liberal U.S. senators opposed to consideration of the judicial nomination of Miguel Estrada. Estrada would become the first Hispanic to serve on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of ...
Project 21 Press Release: Activists Criticize Senate Liberals for Delaying Historic Vote on Hispanic Nominee – February 2003
African-Americans affiliated with the conservative black leadership network Project 21 are outraged by stall tactics being threatened by liberal U.S. senators opposed to consideration of the judicial nomination of Miguel Estrada. Estrada would become the first Hispanic to serve on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of ...
Project 21 Press Release: Black Caps and Gowns a Higher Priority Than Black Coaches
A new report taking issue with the fact that the leadership and football coaching staffs of NCAA Division 1A colleges are overwhelmingly white is being criticized by members of the black leadership network Project 21. Project 21 members say the report is little more than a bean-counting exercise that will ...
Asbestos Litigation: It Costs as Much as War
Asbestos, the talc-like mineral once used in everything from fire retardant wallboard to automotive brake linings, is much in the news because of a blizzard of class-action lawsuits against what sometimes seems to be every American who runs a business. Having sued companies that mined and produced asbestos into bankruptcy, ...
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