Category: National Policy Analysis

Cloning Politics Makes for Strange Bedfellows

National Policy Analysis #196 /
Politics makes for strange bedfellows, particularly when it comes to the issue of cloning. Last month, anti-biotechnology crusader Jeremy Rifkin endeared himself to many religious groups when he sought to patent a process for creating part human and part animal ...
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Paycheck Protection Promotes Union Integrity

National Policy Analysis #197 /
In 1996, Teamsters union members across America gave up to $195,000 to the campaign to legalize marijuana use in California. This money did not come from members who supported the ballot initiative, but from mandatory union dues earmarked for political ...
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Ironies of the Tobacco Wars

National Policy Analysis #198 /
Did you know that airline air was better back when smoking was allowed on planes? According to the respected travel magazine Conde Nast Traveler, in the days of airline smoking, pilots let up to four times as much fresh air ...
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Lawyers’ Fees in Tobacco Case Should Be Capped

National Policy Analysis #195 /
Should a new law be passed under which Americans making $30,000 or less give as much as $58 billion to a small number of lawyers? It could happen if Congress does not approve a bi-partisan bill, H.R. 2740, in some ...
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Paycheck Protection: Cheap for Business, Good for Unions

National Policy Analysis #192 /
Labor union leaders are having a difficult time organizing opposition in California to Proposition 226, the "Campaign Reform Initiative." Unable to convince a majority of members that they should continue to allow unregulated union use of a portion of their ...
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Global Warming: Enjoy it While You Can, by John Carlisle

National Policy Analysis #194 /
Policymakers have been arguing for nearly a decade over what to do about global warming. Noticeably missing from this debate has been any mention of the fact that natural fluctuations in the Earth's temperature, not Man, is the likely explanation ...
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What Earth Day Means to Minority Citizens, by Edmund Peterson

National Policy Analysis #193 /
April 22, 1998 marks the 28th annual Earth Day celebration, but like many other people of color I will not be celebrating. To me, Earth Day is merely an annual reminder of the environmental movement's insensitivity to the needs and ...
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Maryland’s Stack-the-Deck Legal Approach is Not in Taxpayers’ Best Interest

National Policy Analysis #186 /
Legislators in Maryland will soon vote on a controversial new law that will essentially overturn a judge's decision dismissing 9 of 13 counts in the state's lawsuit against tobacco companies. Critics say it's a case of the plaintiff in a ...
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Mad About the Sprewell Case? Blame Labor Unions

National Policy Analysis #187 /
Basketball all-star Latrell Sprewell, fired by his team and suspended from play for a year by the NBA for choking his coach, had his sentence reduced and contract reinstated by the ruling of a union-mandated arbitrator. While the sporting world ...
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Save Social Security: Bring Back the Balanced Budget Amendment

National Policy Analysis #189 /
If federal spending and revenue trends of the last three years continue, the United States will be able to pay off its entire national debt in 15 years, says Wisconsin Congressman Mark Neumann. That's good news for everybody, but especially ...
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