Author: The National Center

Health Activists Suppress Information on Safer Alternative to Smoking, by Gregory Parker

New Visions Commentary /
Despite decades of health warnings, negative ad campaigns and tobacco's well-established bad reputation, 46 million Americans continue to smoke. For many, it's an addiction to the nicotine found in cigarettes that keeps them puffing. There is an alternative, but those ...
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Elitist Environmentalists Say “No Thanks” to New Jobs, by Kevin Martin

New Visions Commentary /
Jobs are a hot political issue these days. While technical support and textiles jobs continue to be "outsourced" to foreign workers in countries like China and India, we must not forget that over 300,000 new jobs were created in America ...
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Health Activists Suppress Information on Safer Alternative to Smoking, by Gregory Parker

National Policy Analysis #510 /
Despite decades of health warnings, negative ad campaigns and tobacco's well-established bad reputation, 46 million Americans continue to smoke. For many, it's an addiction to the nicotine found in cigarettes that keeps them puffing. There is an alternative, but those ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Organization Urges Senator Dodd to Resign Over Insensitive Comments; Senator Urged Punishment for Such Actions By Others in the Past – April 2004

Press Release /
Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 are asking U.S. Senator Christopher J. Dodd to resign his seat in the wake of inappropriate comments he made commemorating fellow senator Robert C. Byrd's 17,000th Senate vote. Senator Dodd said: "I ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Organization Urges Senator Dodd to Resign Over Insensitive Comments; Senator Urged Punishment for Such Actions By Others in the Past

Press Release /
Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 are asking U.S. Senator Christopher J. Dodd to resign his seat in the wake of inappropriate comments he made commemorating fellow senator Robert C. Byrd's 17,000th Senate vote. Senator Dodd said: "I ...
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Fact Checking The O’Reilly Factor

In his "talking points" editorial on Wednesday's O'Reilly Factor show, Bill O'Reilly said: "We have failed to impose fuel standards on vehicles because auto companies don't want that." First of all, we do have fuel standards on vehicles. Second, those ...
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Kudos to Wal-Mart

NCPPR executive director David Almasi gives a positive update on the fight to keep questionable material from kids: A few months ago, I wrote a commentary on how easy it is for children to anonymously buy illicit DVDs such as ...
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Is Al Gore to Blame for 911?

From VP & hubby David Ridenour: Liberals claim that the Iraq war has been a needless distraction from the war on international terrorism. But the real distraction was those 36 days in late 2000 when it wasn't clear who would ...
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Opponents of 2003 Expansion of Drug Benefits Address New Report on State of Medicare: Medicare Trustees’ Report Expected to Bode Ill for Future of Federal Health Care Benefits

Press Release /
The Medicare Board of Trustees will release their annual report on the fiscal stability of Medicare on March 23. Experts predict the report will not be positive about the long-term solvency of the program. Representatives of organizations opposed to the ...
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Economic Policy: Are Tax Cuts for the Rich Bush’s Top Priority?

What Conservatives Think /
The Left Says: "Tax cuts for the wealthy come first -- before jobs, before schools, before health care, before poverty, before the war on Iraq, before dealing with the deficits." Source: Jesse Jackson, "Bush Cuts Rich In, Leaves Rest Out," ...
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