Category: National Security/UN

Overzealous Environmental Rules Impede U.S. Military Training

National Policy Analysis #457 /
If a Marine landing on Red Beach at Camp Pendleton travels off one of the three authorized roads leaving the beach, he risks a $50,000 fine and other penalties. He's not being disciplined for putting himself or his fellow soldiers ...
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A Salute to Our Troops, by Jerry Brooks

Project 21 Commentary /
  A New Visions Commentary paper published March 2003 by The National Center for Public Policy Research, 501 Capitol Ct., N.E., Washington, DC 20002, 202/543-4110, Fax 202-543-5975, E-Mail [email protected], Web https://nationalcenter.org. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. I've made a ...
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Say “No” to Terrorists By Saying “Yes” to ANWR

National Policy Analysis #451 /
American television viewers recently received the dubious treat of television commercials telling them that if they drive SUVs, they support terrorists. The ads, produced by such renowned terrorism experts as the producer of the film "Pulp Fiction," claimed that SUV ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Group Opposes Racially Divisive Plan to Reinstate Military Draft

Press Release /
A proposal by Congressman Charles Rangel (D-NY) to reinstate a military draft is under fire from African-American conservatives affiliated with the Project 21 leadership network. Project 21 members call the Rangel proposal a blatant political maneuver meant to inject a ...
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Stoning Death Sentence Creates a Nigerian Nightmare, by Kimberley Jane Wilson

Project 21 Commentary /
Amina Lawal is going to die. Amina is the 30-year-old Nigerian woman sentenced to death by stoning. Her unforgivable "crime" was to have a baby out of wedlock. Her lawyers hint the pregnancy may be the result of a rape, ...
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When It Comes to Safeguarding Chemical Facilities, the EPA is No Defense Department

National Policy Analysis #436 /
The so-called "Chemical Security Act" recently introduced by Senator Jon Corzine (D-NJ) is laboring under a monstrous misnomer. By essentially placing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in charge of security requirement at the nation's private and public chemical facilities, the ...
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As Unfolding Scandal Indicates, Bush is Right on Homeland Security, by Christopher Burger

National Policy Analysis #439 /
Saddam Hussein, Mohamed Atta, Zaccarias Moussaoui, John Walker Lindh, Richard Reid and... Tom Daschle? Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) is no terrorist. Nor is he a terrorist sympathizer. But he is refusing to grant the President the ability to ...
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Not Yet a Beautiful Friendship: Some Leading Democrats Play Politics on Iraq

National Policy Analysis #441 /
In the classic film Casablanca, the Gestapo orders Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains) to close the saloon owned by Humphrey Bogart's Rick Blaine. Needing a pretext, Renault seizes the law against gambling: "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is ...
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On Iraq: If Necessary, a Fond Farewell to the U.N.

National Policy Analysis #431 /
If in the judicious determination of the members of the United Nations they feel they [are] not welcome and treated with the hostly consideration that is their due, the United States strongly encourages member states to seriously consider removing themselves ...
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Self-Defense is America’s Right: The Bush Administration Should Not Allow the U.N. to Veto Iraq War Plans

National Policy Analysis #432 /
In environmental economics, there is a concept called "the tragedy of the commons." It refers to the fact that when land is held in common, that is, is used freely by the public without the supervision of a private owner, ...
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