Category: National Policy Analysis

Spinning Global Warming

National Policy Analysis #523 /
The Peter Principle appears to have caught up with John Podesta, former Clinton chief-of-staff and frequent talking head on Crossfire, CNN's recently-cancelled tribute to the arrogant and inane. Devised by the clever Canadian management guru Laurence J. Peter, the Peter ...
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Bush’s Second Term Agenda

National Policy Analysis #520 /
Our national conversation now turns from polls to problems, and how to solve them. Here's what President Bush should focus on during the next four years: National security must remain central. Bush's thrust has been sound. When it comes to ...
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Eight States Decide to Set National Global Warming Policy

National Policy Analysis #516 /
The attorneys general of eight states -- California, Connecticut, Iowa, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin -- have filed a lawsuit against five of the nation's largest electricity producers. The attorneys general claim their intent is to ...
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Russia Better Off Without Kyoto

National Policy Analysis #517 /
It is difficult to imagine that someone who maneuvered to the top of the KGB would fail to recognize his own self-interest. That's why it's hard to credit recent reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin has changed his mind and ...
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Don’t Trust Hollywood Science: Global Warming Wouldn’t Cause a New Ice Age

National Policy Analysis #512 /
Promoters of the global warming disaster movie "The Day After Tomorrow" must believe most of us were born yesterday. As most movie fans know, the much-hyped film focuses on a global apocalypse of cataclysmic floods, tornadoes, storms and blizzards that ...
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Regulations on Outsourcing: Hamstringing Our Economy Won’t Help Us Compete

National Policy Analysis #509 /
H.L. Mencken, the iconoclastic Baltimore newspaper man, once defined democracy as "the art and science of running the circus from inside the monkey cage." How else to explain the protectionist pieces of legislation now rumbling through the U.S. Senate that ...
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Should the Mainstream Press Ignore Internet Rumors of a Political Candidate’s Infidelity?

National Policy Analysis #506 /
Two reasons are usually given by those who believe the news media should ignore Internet rumors about a political candidate's alleged infidelity. The first is that marital infidelity is a private issue, and as such, should only be covered by ...
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MoveOn.org: Wrong on Terrorism, Wrong on Mercury

National Policy Analysis #508 /
What do al Qaeda and mercury pollution have in common? The answer: Clinton appointees who did little about them are now claiming in MoveOn.org political TV ad campaigns1,2 that, thanks to George Bush, both threaten your health. Al Qaeda's terrorist ...
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Wal-Mart: A Target Because It’s Successful

National Policy Analysis #499 /
In America, the word "success" seems to be inscribed indelibly on the national consciousness - the consciousness, that is, of everyone except a typical federal bureaucrat. It happened in the Clinton Administration in the late 1990s, midway through the high-tech ...
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Equal Protection Under the Law: Is Andrew Sullivan Right About Gay Marriage?

National Policy Analysis #504 /
Andrew Sullivan, likely the nation's most prolific defender of gay marriage, offered this opinion on February 17: "...under almost any rational understanding of equal protection, civil marriage has to be extended to gay couples." Sullivan relies on an unprovable and ...
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