Year: 2003

Detroit Project is Hypocritical, Muddleheaded

Press Release /
Statement of National Center for Public Policy Research President Amy Ridenour on the anti-SUV ads being run by the Detroit Project: "The Detroit Project, which currently is running TV ads portraying owners of SUVs as supporters of terrorism, is hypocritical ...

McCain and Lieberman Push for New Anti-Global Warming Legislation

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Joe Lieberman (D-CT) plan to introduce a new anti-global warming bill this week instituting a so-called "cap and trade" system for greenhouse gas emissions. McCain, incoming chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, has scheduled ...

Legal Briefs newsletter #36: Lawsuits Cost Americans More Than Drugs

"An April 2002 study prepared by the White House Council of Economic Advisers determined that the U.S. has the most expensive tort system in the world, consuming 1.8% of GDP. At $636 per capita, it's more than twice the average ...

Project 21 Press Release: Project 21 Member to Discuss Slave Reparations on ABC News “Nightline” Program

Press Release /
The African-American leadership network Project 21 is asking the Virginia State Bar to investigate NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc president and director-counsel Elaine R. Jones. "Obstructionism is the order of the day in the Senate," said Project 21 ...

New Year Likely to Bring Another ANWR Showdown, by Christopher Burger

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BACKGROUND: The stage is being set for another Senate confrontation over drilling in the Artic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Pro-drilling Senators are considering adding an ANWR provision to the FY 2004 budget reconciliation bill. As reconciliation bills cannot be filibustered ...

Buckle Up, Black America, by Mary Katherine Ascik

Project 21 Commentary /
A New Visions Commentary paper published January 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. Black America needs to ...

McCain and Lieberman Join the Ranks of Ecoactivists With New Legislation on Global Warming

It's a peculiar and pervasive phenomenon in the nation's capital. Invent a major problem where none exists, then propose a complicated and costly solution, create yet another bureaucratic fiefdom and hand out scads of federal grant money and patronage positions ...

National Center for Public Policy Research “In the News” newsletter – Spring 2003

Dear Friend, A few months ago, one of my colleagues here at The National Center got out a ruler and a calculator and figured out that, if copies of all the print media The National Center received in 2002 were ...

New Visions Commentary: Let Us Once Again Recommit Ourselves to Those Values Which Define Us, by Dr. Condoleezza Rice

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 ...

Special Report: Climate-Gate: What Is the President Being Accused Of, Exactly? by Michael Catanzaro

"Climate-Gate" is getting a lot of attention. What is the White House being accused of, exactly? Let's take a closer look: 1) The White House is denying a "scientific consensus" that global warming is occurring and that human beings, through ...

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