Year: 2001

Legislation to Federalize Immigration in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands Amounts to Economic Sanctions on a U.S. Possession, Says Group

Legislation providing for a federal takeover of the immigration authority of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands (CNMI), a U.S. possession near Guam, is designed to shut down the Islands' garment industry and should be understood as such, says ...
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Wealthy Blacks Seeking to Pass on Hard-Won Legacy to Their Community and Families Join Project 21’s Call for Tax Reform With Newspaper Ad Campaign

Many of the nation's top black entrepreneurs are independently joining the African-American leadership network Project 21's long-standing call for a repeal of federal estate taxes. Taxing the legacy of successful black Americans, Project 21 members contend, threatens to destroy some ...
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Unify and Flourish, by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.

Project 21 Commentary /
A New Visions Commentary paper published April 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. Because you had ...
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Bush is Right on the Environment – But He Needs Help to Prove It

National Policy Analysis #332 /
Although you wouldn't know it from his critics, President Bush has so far taken the correct actions on environmental issues - including his controversial decisions to end U.S. consideration of the Kyoto global warming treaty and against regulating carbon dioxide ...
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The Perils of Success: Environmentalism at a Crossroads, by John Carlisle

National Policy Analysis #333 /
It is sometimes said that a political movement, dedicated to ambitious plans to change society, has two things to fear: Failure to achieve its ideological agenda and actually achieving that agenda. After all, once the movement realizes its goals, it's ...
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Carbon Dioxide is Good for the Environment, by John Carlisle

National Policy Analysis #334 /
Carbon dioxide is good for the environment. That simple fact must be restated to counter environmentalists' baseless allegations that the accumulation of man-made carbon dioxide, produced by cars, power plants and other human activities, is causing dangerous global warming. Indeed, ...
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California’s Electric Rate Increase Proposal Would Shield Voters, But Devastate Business

National Policy Analysis #335 /
They're flaky. They take yoga and "fusion cuisine" seriously. They coined the phrases, "Let's do lunch" and "slow speed chase." They are also a whopping one-sixth of our national population and generate almost 14% of our gross domestic product. And ...
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Global Warming: Hot Air That’s Going to Make Me Colder and Poorer, by Edmund Peterson

Project 21 Commentary /
Reprints permitted provided source is credited. If I told you there was a plan to decrease minority salaries and jobs here in America while allowing the African continent to become polluted, would you think I was peddling a crazy conspiracy ...
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Elbow Grease and Sweat Equity, by Jimmie Lee Hollis

Project 21 Commentary /
Reprints permitted provided source is credited. When television news reports show homes located in poor neighborhoods, you often see a lot of trash, litter and other debris strewn about in the yards and on the porches. A well-dressed commentator usually ...
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March 27, 2001

Contents * McCain-Feingold DOA After Defeat of Amendment to Protect Workers and Stockholders * Bush II Reverses Clinton; Restores Bush I's Rule Telling Workers Their Rights Under Beck * Paycheck Protection Enacted in Utah * Union Leader Admits Big Labor ...
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