Category: National Policy Analysis

Vladimir Putin: He’s No Thomas Jefferson

National Policy Analysis #495 /
Back in 1982, America's more gullible reporters were gushing over the new Soviet communist party boss, Yuri Andropov, describing him as an English-speaking renaissance man who partied with dissidents and who relaxed by reading Western popular novels.1 In fact, Andropov ...
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Fighting Disease is Better Than Suing Over It

National Policy Analysis #496 /
The FDA may have severely undermined a group of personal injury attorneys looking to sue the makers of a new class of wonder drugs for schizophrenia. It turns out that the nation's premier drug regulatory agency recently agreed with the ...
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An Rx for Our Ailing Health Care System: Caps on Lawsuit Awards, by Amy Ridenour and David Ridenour

National Policy Analysis #483 /
Every once in a while, you hear a story you know you will remember for the rest of your life. On July 5, 2002, Tony Dyess of Mississippi, a father of two, suffered head injuries in an auto accident. He ...
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Leavitt Versus the Leviathan: Not So Much the Confirmation Process, But the EPA Itself

National Policy Analysis #485 /
Mike Leavitt deserves to be confirmed as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, not so much because he's a famous consensus-builder but because, in trying to be one as governor of Utah, he learned that environmental organizations can never, ever ...
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Time to End the Asbestos Lottery

National Policy Analysis #478 /
One issue has caused the bankruptcy of over 60 companies and threatens the financial health of hundreds more. It has inspired 600,000 pending lawsuits and is likely to cost Americans well over $200 billion dollars - possibly much more. Corporate ...
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“Blackouts” Today, “Greenouts” Tomorrow: America Needs a Pro-Production Energy Policy

National Policy Analysis #484 /
Tens of millions Americans got a wakeup call Thursday: cheap, accessible energy isn't something to take for granted. Unfortunately, many of America's most powerful environmental organizations do take energy for granted, and they are trying to set America on a ...
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A Modest Suggestion for Improving Government Oversight

National Policy Analysis #469 /
In a Gallup poll released June 19, only 29 percent of the public said it has "a great deal/quite a lot" of confidence in Congress. Although this is a higher figure than the 18 percent approval rating Congress earned in ...
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Striking a Deal on Asbestos

National Policy Analysis #467 /
Among conservatives, there is perhaps no senior figure in Washington more associated with compromise than Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT). Considered a strong conservative by liberals, Hatch frustrates conservatives. He's supported federal health care, anti-gun measures and the legal destruction of ...
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On Global Warming, the New York Times Spins Bill O’Reilly’s “No Spin Zone”… and the Rest of Us

National Policy Analysis #470 /
The New York Times spun a tall tale the other day, and Bill O'Reilly of the Fox News Channel - the fabled "No Spin Zone" - fell for it. Hard. About a hundred newspapers joined him.1 It happened in the ...
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Rolling Over the Facts on SUV Safety, by Amy Ridenour and Eric Peters

National Policy Analysis #465 /
More people were killed last year in rollover-type accidents involving pickups and SUVs than in previous years: statistically speaking, about 1.51 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles traveled.1 But despite alarmist reportage by the major media and SUV-haters in the ...
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