Year: 2003

Celebrate Earth Day by Taking Environmental Issues Seriously, by Christopher Burger

National Policy Analysis #462 /
"Between 1980 and 1989, some four billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish [from starvation]."1 "Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind."2 Prophesies foretelling the end of the world? ...
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A Federal Asbestos Trust Fund: Better for Victims, Better for the Economy

National Policy Analysis #463 /
Amid the happiness and perhaps relief within the White House that the war in Iraq has been so successful is this unsettling fact: President Bush is reenacting the political scenario that doomed his father's 1992 reelection bid. The senior President ...
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Transplant Details Raise Cruel Questions, by Kimberley Wilson

Project 21 Commentary /
You'd have to be made of granite to not be moved by Jessica Santillan's plight. The sweet-faced 17-year-old weighed 85 pounds and suffered from a birth defect that left her heart and lungs unable to function properly. Her one chance ...
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Getting Blacks Elected, But at What Cost to Black America? by Richard Dimery

Project 21 Commentary /
Savoy magazine recently addressed the issue of getting more blacks elected to public office. Views were diverse, and all disturbed me. Mellody Hobson of Ariel Capitol Management sounded naive: "I don't care what the platform is, I just want a ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Network Posts Online Educational Resource to Teach About Affirmative Action – April 2003

Press Release /
On April 1, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that could redefine how affirmative action racial preference policies determine school admissions. A decision is expected by the end of June. As a public service intended to ...
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SUV Owners Deserve Tax Audits, Sierra Club Says

National Policy Analysis #460 /
The Mercatus Center at Virginia's George Mason University reports that businesses with 100 employees or less spend a whopping $2,500 per employee simply to comply with federal regulations. This doesn't count state or local regulations, or taxes. Now a major ...
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The Case for Sport Utility Vehicles: It’s the Economy, Stupid, by Geoffrey Moore

Project 21 Commentary /
Drivers of sport utility vehicles (SUVs) have recently been called gas-guzzlers, had their faith and religion questioned and even been called terrorists (the poor gas mileage of some SUVs helps put money in Osama's pocket, you see). Why are SUV ...
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A Just War to Remove an Evil Man, by Murdock “Doc” Gibbs

Project 21 Commentary /
A New Visions Commentary paper published April 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. Regarding America's war against ...
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Let Us Once Again Recommit Ourselves to Those Values Which Define Us, by Dr. Condoleezza Rice

Project 21 Commentary /
Sundays in my family meant church. It was the center of our lives. In segregated black Birmingham of the late 1950s and early 1960s, the church was not just a place of worship; it was the social and civic center ...
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‘No Blood for Oil!’ The Dolphins Cried… And Other War Stories

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, better known as PETA, has released the following statement: "The Pentagon recently announced that in addition to troops, the U.S. military is using chickens, dogs, dolphins, pigeons, and sea lions to fight ...
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