Category: National Policy Analysis

How Jury Duty Convinced Me That We Need a Moral President

National Policy Analysis #190 /
It was a mystery to me how Bill Clinton enjoys such high approval ratings in light of all of the scandals surrounding his presidency. Jury duty helped put things in perspective. I spent last week at the District of Columbia ...
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Earth Day May No Longer Be Needed

National Policy Analysis #191 /
After nearly thirty years, Earth Day may be obsolete. Thirty years ago, Americans had good reason to be concerned about the environment. In 1966, 80 people reportedly died from air pollution-related causes during a four-day temperature inversion in New York ...
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Government Rules Akin to “Regulatory Racism,” by Kevin Pritchett

National Policy Analysis #188 /
A new report from the Milton E. Eisenhower Foundation claims the predictions of the 30-year-old Kerner Commission have come true: America has become two separate societies, one black and one white. Among other problems, the urban policy group cites high ...
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Democrats Stacked the Deck at the State of the Union Speech; Republicans AWOL

National Policy Analysis #183 /
Viewers of President Clinton's January 27 State of the Union speech may have noticed on oddity: when House and Senate Democrats, less than 50% of the elected Members of Congress, stood up to give the president a standing ovation, it ...
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A Virtual Revolution: Government Permitting, Online Shopping May Become a $300 Billion Industry

National Policy Analysis #224 /
Holiday shopping will never be the same. Shoppers are spending $2.3 billion online this holiday season, more than double what they spent in 1997.1 And if the federal government doesn't intervene, new developments combined with Americans' passion for the Internet ...
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Good News About Energy

National Policy Analysis #226 /
In 1987, the environmentalist Worldwatch Institute predicted an oil shortage would cause a major energy crisis within five years.1 No crisis has occurred. Instead, the oil industry is producing a million more barrels a day than it can sell.2 According ...
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The Internet: Changing our Postal Service and our Holiday Traditions

National Policy Analysis #227 /
This year, Americans will send 2.8 billion Christmas and Hanukkah cards.1 What these Americans don't know, however, is that sending a greeting card - and other messages once entrusted to the post office - may shortly become an entirely different ...
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Welfare for Microsoft?

National Policy Analysis #180 /
When people turn their minds to the plight of the poor and downtrodden, they rarely think of Bill Gates. Yet when the Clinton Administration announced a new federal spending program, it was aid to high-tech businesses the president had in ...
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Despite Criticism, Drudge Delivers

National Policy Analysis #181 /
As much as the establishment media hates to admit it, freelance journalists using the internet are beating them on cracking some of the biggest news scoops of our time. Accusations that President Bill Clinton covered up an affair with former ...
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Campaign Finance Laws Need a Tune-up, Not an Overhaul

National Policy Analysis #182 /
If you were asked to guess how many of the 535 member of Congress filed complete reports with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for the 1996 elections, how many would you guess? All of them? A respectable 90%? Are you ...
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