Category: National Policy Analysis

Without Reform, Trial Lawyers, Not States or Individuals, Will Be Biggest Winners from Tobacco Settlement

National Policy Analysis #171 /
In the proposed tobacco settlement pending before Congress, it is richly ironic that that greed of the trial lawyers -- which helped create the deal in the first place -- has become one of the chief reasons why the agreement ...
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Farmers to Bear Brunt of New Clean Air Standards, by Chad Cowan

National Policy Analysis #169 /
The Environmental Protection Agency recently imposed new, more strict air quality standards that many of the nation's farmers believe will have a disproportionate, negative impact on their way of life. "While the EPA's plan to improve air quality may have ...
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Scholarship Act Is D.C. Youngsters’ Best Hope for Education, by Arturo Silva

National Policy Analysis #168 /
OverviewHouse Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX), Senators Joseph Lieberman (D-CT), Dan Coats (R-IN), and Sam Brownback (R-KS) have introduced legislation, "District of Columbia Student Opportunity Scholarship Act of 1997," to grant scholarships to nearly 2,000 low-income students in the District ...
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Let’s Hold Juveniles Responsible for Their Crimes, by Darlene Kennedy

National Policy Analysis #166 /
The meek may be blessed, but they're not likely to inherit the earth anytime soon. In May, President Clinton stood proudly before an audience of law enforcement, community leaders and others at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. to announce preliminary ...
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Cure to Global Warming Could Be Worse Than the Disease

National Policy Analysis #165 /
Introduction This December, world leaders will meet in Kyoto, Japan to sign an amendment to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (the Rio Treaty) that will require signatory nations to meet strict targets and timetables for reducing their ...
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New Clean Air Standards Could Place Children at Greater Risk

National Policy Analysis #164 /
On September 23, 1994, at approximately 3:02 a.m., 17-year-old J. Brandon Young III died. His young life slipped away after it took more than an hour for an ambulance to come to his aid. The ambulance station was just six ...
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Top Ten Acts of The Clinton Administration To Divide Americans By Race and Ethnicity, by Arturo Silva

National Policy Analysis #163 /
On June 14, at the University of California, San Diego, President Clinton will deliver a speech on racial reconciliation and unveil a "race initiative." Whatever the President proposes, the black leadership group Project 21 has put together this Top 10 ...
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Should Public Health Be Sacrificed At the Altar of Political Correctness? by Roderick Conrad

National Policy Analysis #162 /
When names like Arthur Ashe, Rock Hudson, and Kimberly Bergalis are mentioned, people automatically think of AIDS or HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The fact that most Americans would know that Ashe, Hudson, and Bergalis died of AIDS is ...
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Does the U.S. Senate Care About Creating New Jobs?

National Policy Analysis #161 /
Does the U.S. Senate care about new job creation? Anyone watching a recent Senate hearing on the airline industry could be forgiven for wondering. At issue: a proposed operating alliance between American and British Airlines that, if approved, will likely ...
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Does Speaker Gingrich Lack the Courage To Eliminate Racial Preferences? by Ryan Sager

National Policy Analysis #167 /
"Repeal Affirmative Action Now!" screamed the headline of a recent article by Ward Connerly, the man primarily responsible for California's passage of the controversial Proposition 209, which ended racial preferences state-wide. Connerly argues that now is the perfect time for ...
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