Author: The National Center

Senators Discriminate Against Bush Nominee Because of His Religious Beliefs, by Matthew Craig

National Policy Analysis #487 /
Not many people can boast resumes like Alabama Attorney General William H. Pryor's. Unfortunately, discrimination plagues him in the U.S. Senate and may block his appointment to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Pryor graduated magna cum laude and was ...
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Homosexual School More About Social Policy Than Socialization, by Mychal Massie

New Visions Commentary /
New York City now has a high school exclusively for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender children, an expansion of a two-classroom alternative school that has operated for years. Its principal claims, "This school will be a model for the country, ...
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The Mixed Blessing of Affirmative Action, by Matthew Craig

New Visions Commentary /
Endorsement of affirmative action policies that allow schools to continue using race as a factor in student admissions can, at best, be seen as a mixed blessing for the black community. But while the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledges that blacks ...
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Black and Conservative in America, by Sean Turner

New Visions Commentary /
A child of the 70s, I grew up in a typical two-parent, middle-income household. My father, then a U.S. Navy man honorably serving his country, carried much of the discipline he acquired in the military into parenting. Much of that ...
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Jim Crow’s New Face, by La Shawn Barber

New Visions Commentary /
Legal segregation of the races is an embarrassing part of America's history. Called Jim Crow after a black character from an 1840s minstrel show, the laws prescribed separate facilities for blacks and whites from around 1865 until the 1960s. "Separate ...
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New Source Review: What the Fuss is About, by Amy Ridenour and Christopher Burger

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: The Bush Administration is issuing a new rule clarifying what is meant by "routine maintenance" under "New Source Review" provisions in the 1977 Clean Air Act amendments. The 1977 Clean Air Act amendments required power plant and oil refinery ...
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It is Time for the People’s Media — Talk Radio, the Internet, Blogs and Editorial Pages — to Force a Permanent Solution to the Asbestos Crisis; Congress Must Act Before Special Interest Lobbying Scuttles Plan to Compensate the Sick While Ending Bankruptcies and Job Losses

Press Release /
Efforts to reform the decades-long asbestos scandal are stalled in the U.S. Senate and it's time for the "people's media" -- talk radio, the Internet, blogs and editorial pages -- to force Congress to justly end this $200-$300 billion dollar ...
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Schumer Blames Bush for Blackout While Energy Bill is Stalled in Schumer’s Senate

In the Democrats' weekly radio address, NY Senator Charles Schumer has blamed George Bush for the blackout. Meanwhile, a comprehensive energy bill has been stalled in the Senate for two years. Schumer, of course, serves in the Senate while Bush ...
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Dark Ages Redux: Will America Meet Her Future Energy Needs?

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: North America suffered through its largest-ever electrical power blackout August 14-15, leaving tens of millions of Americans and Canadians without power. The blackouts come at a time when passage of an energy bill has been stalled in the Senate ...
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Why “Buffalo Soldiers”? by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D.

New Visions Commentary /
I was invited to review a recently released movie titled "Buffalo Soldiers," a movie previously released in Europe under the title "Army Go Home." It's about corrupt and incompetent American servicemen in Germany in the late 1980s. My invitation to ...
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