Category: National Policy Analysis

Asbestos Lawsuits: Putting Retirements at Risk

National Policy Analysis #404 /
The terrorist attacks on America last September 11 left behind more than just carnage and rubble - they also left behind a long line of personal injury lawyers filing thousands of lawsuits with an estimated potential liability of some $60 ...
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Postal Security: A Modest Proposal

National Policy Analysis #398 /
According to the entertaining website dumbcriminalacts.com, a 6 foot, 7 inch tall 500-pound man entered his local post office planning robbery. Although easily recognized because of his unusual stature, he approached the clerk, his next-door neighbor, and demanded money. When ...
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New Research Indicates the Earth May Be Cooling

National Policy Analysis #388 /
After a decade of warnings that the Earth's temperature may be rapidly warming, and that this supposed warming may result in a surge of catastrophic flooding and lethal storms, it now appears that we may be in for global cooling ...
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Global Warming: Administration Could Snatch Defeat From the Jaws of Victory, by Tom Randall

National Policy Analysis #392 /
In its annual report to the President, the White House Council of Economic Advisers seems to be setting Mr. Bush up to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory on the global warming issue. "The uncertainty surrounding the science of ...
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Lies, Damned Lies and Science: When Scientific Research is Actually Scientific Sham

National Policy Analysis #394 /
In his autobiography, Mark Twain famously - and probably wrongly - attributed to Benjamin Disraeli the now celebrated quote, "There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies and statistics."1 The year was 1906, and the American public's appetite for ...
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Enron and the Environmental Movement: Global Warming Politics Makes for Strange Bedfellows

National Policy Analysis #384 /
With a payoff worth tens of billions of dollars at stake, Enron Corporation laid out millions in campaign contributions in the 1990s apparently in part to persuade the Clinton Administration and the U.S. Senate to support the Kyoto global warming ...
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A Ban on Embryonic Cloning: Would It Be Constitutional?

National Policy Analysis #379 /
Question: which sentence more accurately describes cloning? A) A medical procedure with the potential to save and create lives; B) Medical experiments on budding human beings that may harm or end their lives. A caller on Washington's WMAL radio November ...
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They Also Serve: Terrorists Confronted by the Patriotic Fervor of a Free Market

National Policy Analysis #373 /
The terrorists are finding themselves at war with an unexpected foe: the ingenuity and expertise of American businessmen and women. Business is helping the post office respond to the current crises, helping Americans survive anthrax exposure, supplying and improving tools ...
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Wishes Won’t Fuel Our Economy: We Need Oil Drilling

National Policy Analysis #375 /
Wordsmiths tell us the phrase "you can't get blood from a turnip" has been around since 1666.1 You'd think 335 years would be long enough to get the point across, but apparently not, because some environmentalists still believe alternative energy ...
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Good News About the Environment: A Review of Bjorn Lomborg’s “The Skeptical Environmentalist”

National Policy Analysis #372 /
You can tell you've won the debate when your opponent's remaining intellectual argument is to throw a pie in your face. Bjorn Lomborg, a former Greenpeace supporter, experienced that happy and, perhaps, tasty satisfaction during a talk at a Borders ...
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