Category: Articles

Environmental Litigation Threatens Endangered Species, by Dana Joel Gattuso

National Policy Analysis #482 /
You know environmental lawsuits have spun out of control when barge activity on the Missouri River must come to a halt to preserve habitat for the nesting piping plover. A federal district court decision ordering the Army Corps of Engineers ...
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When It Comes to Prescription Drugs, What Does “Safe” Mean? by Edmund F. Haislmaier

National Policy Analysis #486 /
Pending legislation to add a drug benefit to Medicare and make it easier to import prescription drugs from other countries has focused attention on something most of us take for granted - the safety of the drugs we consume. We ...
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Senators Discriminate Against Bush Nominee Because of His Religious Beliefs, by Matthew Craig

National Policy Analysis #487 /
Not many people can boast resumes like Alabama Attorney General William H. Pryor's. Unfortunately, discrimination plagues him in the U.S. Senate and may block his appointment to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Pryor graduated magna cum laude and was ...
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It is Time for the People’s Media — Talk Radio, the Internet, Blogs and Editorial Pages — to Force a Permanent Solution to the Asbestos Crisis; Congress Must Act Before Special Interest Lobbying Scuttles Plan to Compensate the Sick While Ending Bankruptcies and Job Losses

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Efforts to reform the decades-long asbestos scandal are stalled in the U.S. Senate and it's time for the "people's media" -- talk radio, the Internet, blogs and editorial pages -- to force Congress to justly end this $200-$300 billion dollar ...
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Dark Ages Redux: Will America Meet Her Future Energy Needs?

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: North America suffered through its largest-ever electrical power blackout August 14-15, leaving tens of millions of Americans and Canadians without power. The blackouts come at a time when passage of an energy bill has been stalled in the Senate ...
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“Manhattan Was Beautiful in the Dark”

This wonderful George Mason University "Blackout Project" website contains personal stories and recollections of New York's famous power blackouts of 1965 ("The Night the Lights Went Out") and 1977. It's worth reading -- if you have enough electrical power to ...
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Nuclear Power: Clean, Safe and Needing a Level Playing Field, by Gerald E. Marsh and George S. Stanford

National Policy Analysis #480 /
Nuclear power is economical. All it needs is a level playing field. But the field is not level. For one thing, competing power sources are heavily subsidized by society. Unlike nuclear plants, they don't bear the full cost of disposing ...
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Reducing Tobacco Risks With Smokeless Tobacco, by James P. Gelfand

National Policy Analysis #479 /
Despite the Surgeon General's warning, anti-smoking campaigns, anti-smoking regulations and over 440,000 smoking-related American deaths annually,1 approximately a quarter of American adults still smoke cigarettes. For approximately 40 percent of them, an addiction to nicotine keeps them puffing.2 Their addictions ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Conservatives React to Inglewood Police Brutality Verdict

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Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 are encouraged by the peaceful night in the Los Angeles area and elsewhere following yesterday's hung jury verdict in the trial of a former Inglewood, California police officer who was charged with ...
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Black Group Demands Miramax/Disney Rename Film; Use of “Buffalo Soldiers” Name Disrespects Achievements of Famed Black Regiments

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Citing racial insensitivity and the inappropriateness in using the name of a highly-decorated group of black servicemen in a portrayal of corrupt soldiers, members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 are demanding that the Miramax Film Corporation and its ...
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