Author: The National Center

Racial Preferences Add to the “Dumbing Down” of Education, by Camille Harper

New Visions Commentary /
The two young ladies waiting for the el had been my students the year before. Now they were seniors, and I had been bused to another school. I asked them about the old school and other students. Unenthusiastically, they replied ...
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Spike Lee’s “Get on the Bus” Addresses the Right Issues, by B.B. Robinson

New Visions Commentary /
A New Visions Commentary paper published November 1996 by The National Center for Public Policy Research, 20 F Street NW, Suite 700 , Washington, D.C. 20001, (202) 507-6398, Fax (301) 498-1301, E-Mail [email protected] Spike Lee is viewed as the premier ...
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African-American Group Supports End of Racial Preferences: California Civil Rights Initiative Defended; Endorsed by California Members, Including a Former Black Panther

Press Release /
Diversity should be achieved through non-discriminatory outreach efforts, not preferences or quotas for special groups, says the African-American leadership group Project 21. Project 21's California members say that the California Civil Rights Initiative (Proposition 209) seeks to achieve this goal ...
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Emory University Withdraws Funding for Black Conservative Speaker Due to Her So-Called “Anti-Homosexual” Views, But Anti-White and Anti-Semitic Speakers Welcome – October 1996

Despite an almost unanimous vote by the Emory College Council to pay honorarium to Project 21 member and black conservative Star Parker for a speech, Emory University's College Council President has vetoed expenditure of the funds, claiming that Ms. Parker ...
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National Directory of Environmental and Regulatory Victims (Abreviated Edition)

To download the complete 2000 edition of our National Directory of Environmental and Regulatory Victims, clickhere.  To download the complete 1998 edition of our National Directory of Environmental and Regulatory Victims, clickhere.  An abbreviated edition of the National Directory of ...
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Our Swollen Future: An Environmental Parody

All situations, events, and persons depicted herein are fictional. Any similarity without satirical intent is purely coincidental. All opinions are solely those of the author. Copyright 1996 by Steven J. Milloy. All rights reserved. Portions of this text may be ...
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Liberals Rally Around Government, Conservatives Rally Around Freedom

New Visions Commentary /
A New Visions Commentary paper published October 1996 by The National Center for Public Policy Research, 20 F Street NW, Suite 700 , Washington, D.C. 20001, (202) 507-6398, Fax (301) 498-1301, E-Mail [email protected] As the anniversary of Martin Luther King's ...
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The Wealthy and Well-Connected Benefit Most from Racial Set-Asides – October 1996

A New Visions Commentary paper published October 1996 by The National Center for Public Policy Research, 20 F Street NW, Suite 700 , Washington, D.C. 20001, (202) 507-6398, Fax (301) 498-1301, E-Mail [email protected] In a high-profile speech last year, President ...
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A Black Conservative Congressman Defines the American Dream

A New Visions Commentary paper published September 1996 by The National Center for Public Policy Research, 20 F Street NW, Suite 700 , Washington, D.C. 20001, (202) 507-6398, Fax (301) 498-1301, E-Mail [email protected] When it comes to the American dream, ...
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Demon Tobacco, by Doug Bandow

National Policy Analysis #149 /
Introduction Political crusades tend to be most successful when directed against an enemy of one sort or another. To promote the public interest is tough. To attack someone who is seemingly obstructing the public interest is far easier. Now the ...
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