Year: 2002

Sierra Club Attacks Senators for Vote on CAFE, by Gretchen Randall

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: Today the Sierra Club issued a press release praising 38 senators for standing "up to the scare tactics and lies of the auto industry and [voting] against this do nothing amendment," referring to the Levin-Bond amendment to the Senate ...
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Media Misconceptions Help Lead to Public Fear of Global Warming, by Christopher Burger

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: The Washington Post repeatedly has reported that areas of the U.S. will warm extensively in the coming century. On December 17, 2001, for example, citing a report commissioned by Congress, the Post reported that the Northeast (New England and ...
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Postal Security: A Modest Proposal

National Policy Analysis #398 /
According to the entertaining website dumbcriminalacts.com, a 6 foot, 7 inch tall 500-pound man entered his local post office planning robbery. Although easily recognized because of his unusual stature, he approached the clerk, his next-door neighbor, and demanded money. When ...
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Time to Stop “Nomination Profiling,” by Kevin Martin

Project 21 Commentary /
We were shocked and horrified to learn police officers were using race as a factor to identify potential criminals. "Racial profiling" is condemned for generalizing entire classes of people. But that was then and this is now. In the liberal-controlled ...
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Enron and Global Crossing: A Double-Standard? by Michael King

Project 21 Commentary /
Reprints permitted provided source is credited.In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a new species of businessman sprung up across the land. Known as "robber barons," they were known, sometimes unjustly, but often accurately, for their ruthless tactics and ...
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Enron Outrage More About Bashing Bush Than Righting Wrongs, by Eddie Huff

Project 21 Commentary /
Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) rang the dinner bell, calling the starved and downtrodden media to feast on their first real bite of Bush-flesh since the election. The media had been hungering since the inauguration. Then came Lieberman's trial balloon: someone ...
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NAACP Boycott Over Flag Hurts Struggling Black Resort Community, by Kimberley Wilson

Project 21 Commentary /
Atlantic Beach needs help. Along with Eatonville, Florida, Atlantic Beach, South Carolina is one of the last remaining chartered predominately black towns in America. Located on the coastline, it earned the nickname of the "Black Pearl of the Grand Strand." ...
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Teamsters Union Claims Environmentalist Support For ANWR Oil Exploration, by Tom Randall

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, a strong supporter of President Bush's energy plan, issued a press release dated February 26, 2002 claiming the plan to drill in ANWR has the support of environmentalists with past or current affiliations with ...
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CAFE Belongs in the Graveyard with its Victims: We Can Increase Fuel Economy Without Costing Lives, by Tom Randall

National Policy Analysis #399 /
The Senate, laughably called the world's greatest deliberative body, recently found itself locked in another absurd debate, spurred on by two men whose primary motivation seems to be their desire for George W. Bush's job - Senators John McCain (R-AZ) ...
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Cautionary Energy Tales

The Relief Report /
Contents: Premature Death: A Cautionary Energy Tale CAFE Costs, and CAFE Kills Premature Death: A Cautionary Energy Tale A young woman who didn't care for my opinion that energy should be cheap and plentiful confronted me one night on a ...
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