Year: 2001

Integral Fast Reactors: Source of Safe, Abundant, Non-Polluting Power, by George S. Stanford, Ph.D.

National Policy Analysis #378 /
What is the IFR? You mean, "What was the IFR?" O.K., what was the IFR? IFR stands for Integral Fast Reactor. It was a power-reactor-development program, built around a revolutionary concept for generating nuclear power - not only a new ...

A Ban on Embryonic Cloning: Would It Be Constitutional?

National Policy Analysis #379 /
Question: which sentence more accurately describes cloning? A) A medical procedure with the potential to save and create lives; B) Medical experiments on budding human beings that may harm or end their lives. A caller on Washington's WMAL radio November ...

As Civil Rights Commission Refuses to Seat Black Appointee, Black Network Says New Official’s Conservative Beliefs Are No Justification for Discrimination

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Chairman Mary Frances Berry's refusal to recognize the appointment of Commissioner Peter Kirsanow is akin to former governor George Wallace's refusal to integrate the Alabama school system say members of the African-American leadership network Project ...

The Grinch Who Stole Our Business, by Christopher Burger

National Policy Analysis #381 /
Every Person in Hudson Liked Freedom a lot But the EPA, Which worked in Washington, Did NOT! They ruined our Christmas! The whole Christmas season! Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason. Just as in the ...

A Piece of Black History is Lost, by Kimberley Jane Wilson

Project 21 Commentary /
A New Visions Commentary paper published December 2001 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 Choctaw Terminal ...

Patience or Panic? The EPA Seems to Let Demographics Decide, by Syd Gernstein

National Policy Analysis #380 /
Residents of the affluent Spring Valley community in Washington, D.C. will wake up this Christmas morning to open presents, eat coffeecake and maybe even brush snow off their SUVs and Mercedes as they have the past 15 years. Despite Spring ...

King Family is Selling Out Martin’s Legacy, by Michael King

Project 21 Commentary /
"I'm going to King-Land, King-Land; in Atlanta, G-A, I'm going to King-Land..." - with apologies to singer Paul Simon. It appears that the family of slain civil rights giant Martin Luther King, Jr. is looking for more ways to milk ...

Still Reflecting on September 11 and Security, by R.D. Davis

Project 21 Commentary /
With the murderous destruction of the World Trade Center, many individual freedoms were also destroyed. And many more will inevitably fall. If there's one thing I hate, it's losing my freedom. I personally think I'm more sensitive to this than ...

Project 21 Release: Civil Rights Commission Refuses to Seat Black Appointee; Black Network Says New Official’s Conservative Beliefs Are No Justification for Discrimination – December 2001

Press Release /
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Chairman Mary Frances Berry's refusal to recognize the appointment of Commissioner Peter Kirsanow is akin to former governor George Wallace's refusal to integrate the Alabama school system say members of the African-American leadership network Project ...

Rep. Markey Misses the Mark on Nuclear Safety by Christopher Burger

BACKGROUND: Representative Edward Markey (D-MA) has made misleading statements regarding the resistance of U.S. nuclear power plants to terrorist attacks. Rebuttal statements come from a National Center for Public Policy Research paper written by nuclear scientists Gerald E. Marsh and ...

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