Congratulations to National Center Board of Directors Member Jay Timmons, who has just been appointed senior vice president of policy at the National Association of Manufacturers, the nation's largest industrial trade association and easily one of the most influential organizations ... READ MORE
An e-mail from Barbara Ledeen: As Senator Specter and others have attacked originalism or constitutionalism, it might be helpful for everybody to have this explanation. It comes from Judge Bork's opening statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 15, ... READ MORE
Americans frequently complain about the ugly state of public discourse -- but it's not all the politicians' doing. Tabloid-style journalism, which feeds on controversy, is a big part of the problem. And I'm not just referring to the Washington Post ... READ MORE
National Center Policy Analyst Ryan Balis is becoming a prolific online author on the topic of property rights -- both personal and, believe it or not, national. Writing in Human Events Online July 1, Ryan has this to sayabout personal ... READ MORE
On February 1, 1993, The Washington Post got into a heap of PR trouble after reporter Michael Weisskopf wrote in a news story that followers of the Christian Right are "largely poor, uneducated, and easy to command." On Sunday, Los ... READ MORE
Still reeling from the Supreme Court decision Kelo v. City of New London, property rights advocates are bracing themselves for another betrayal of private property rights - this time from the GOP-controlled Congress - according to The National Center for ... READ MORE
Jeff Harrell says: The war on terror is no more about Osama bin Laden than World War II was about Tojo. Speaking of Hideki Tojo, his granddaughter Yuko Tojo, president of the Tokyo-based Environment Solution Institute, recently defended him on ... READ MORE
Rep. Zoe Lofgren explains that "lying about sex" (code term for President Clinton's perjury) "certainly" isn't an impeachable offense, but "lying to Congress" (which, she claims, President Bush has done) "might well be" impeachable. Nonpartisan translation: Lying to the judicial ... READ MORE
The Washington Post says in a Monday editorial that flag-burning should not be banned because Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech. The great power of this principle is that it admits no exception: not for the ... READ MORE
Efforts to encourage corporations to curb "greenhouse gas" emissions through a mandatory "cap-and-trade" scheme imposes a hidden tax on small businesses and amounts to a Kyoto-style rationing of energy use, says the National Center for Public Policy Research. Early crediting ... READ MORE
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