Category: National Policy Analysis
Chilling Intolerance for Free Speech on Global Warming, by Dana Joel Gattuso
"When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards - some sort of climate ...
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The Teachers’ Lesson: How To Scam Social Security
How would you like to work for just one day and earn thousands of dollars for it afterwards? Perhaps that sounds like an infomercial on cable TV at three in the morning. Or maybe it sounds like another FOX TV ...
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March of the Lemmings: Media Shuns Climate Change Report’s Good News on Sea Levels, by Dana Joel Gattuso
Remember the headlines last summer, spurred by the release of Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth, warning that massive amounts of Antarctica's ice sheets are melting, threatening to raise sea levels 20 feet worldwide and wipe out Antarctica's Emperor penguins ...
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Letting Medicare “Negotiate” Drug Prices: Myths vs. Reality
The opening of the 110th Congress will witness the return of the debate over Medicare and prescription drugs. In 2003, Congress and President Bush enacted the "Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act," which established a prescription drug program for ...
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Oil Addiction Fiction: Bush’s “Addiction” May Be Rational Choice, by Dana Joel Gattuso
In spite of President Bush's dire warning in his State of the Union address that America is becoming "addicted to oil" - followed by "rehab" policies to include renewables, hybrids and now CAFE standards - most Americans do not wish ...
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Assertions vs. Reality: The Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area Act of 2006, by Peyton Knight
Analyses of H.R. 5195 and S. 2645, the House and Senate versions, respectively, of the Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area Act of 2006, frequently suffer from a number of misperceptions. This paper is intended to illustrate and correct ...
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Don’t Fall Prey to Propaganda: Life Expectancy and Infant Mortality are Unreliable Measures for Comparing the U.S. Health Care System to Others
How does the United States health care system fare when compared to the rest of the industrialized world? This is an important question. Accurately measuring our health care system relative to those of other nations can yield insight into the ...
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Proposed Race-Based Government for Hawaii Would Create Trouble in Paradise, by David W. Almasi and Amy Ridenour
When Hawaii was admitted to the union in 1959, there was an understanding among lawmakers, the American people and the territory's residents that Native Hawaiians would not gain the same legal status as American Indian tribes. That 45-year understanding may ...
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“Meeting the Climate Challenge”: Left-of-Center Groups Warn of Impending Doom
Whether you love them or would just love to leave them out in the cold, enthusiastic advocates of the global warming theory are not known for an exquisite sense of timing. A year ago, former Vice President Al Gore picked ...
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Michael Crichton’s State of Fear: Climate Change in the Cineplex?
If you count the two "sequels" spawned by the original Jurassic Park, no less than 13 of Michael Crichton's page-turning thrillers have delighted moviegoers around the globe. From The Andromeda Strain in 1971 through 2003's Timeline, films based on Crichton ...
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