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Detroit Project is Hypocritical, Muddleheaded

Press Release /
Statement of National Center for Public Policy Research President Amy Ridenour on the anti-SUV ads being run by the Detroit Project: "The Detroit Project, which currently is running TV ads portraying owners of SUVs as supporters of terrorism, is hypocritical ...
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Legal Briefs newsletter #36: Lawsuits Cost Americans More Than Drugs

"An April 2002 study prepared by the White House Council of Economic Advisers determined that the U.S. has the most expensive tort system in the world, consuming 1.8% of GDP. At $636 per capita, it's more than twice the average ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Project 21 Member to Discuss Slave Reparations on ABC News “Nightline” Program

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The African-American leadership network Project 21 is asking the Virginia State Bar to investigate NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc president and director-counsel Elaine R. Jones. "Obstructionism is the order of the day in the Senate," said Project 21 ...
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New Year Likely to Bring Another ANWR Showdown, by Christopher Burger

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: The stage is being set for another Senate confrontation over drilling in the Artic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Pro-drilling Senators are considering adding an ANWR provision to the FY 2004 budget reconciliation bill. As reconciliation bills cannot be filibustered ...
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National Center for Public Policy Research “In the News” newsletter – Spring 2003

Dear Friend, A few months ago, one of my colleagues here at The National Center got out a ruler and a calculator and figured out that, if copies of all the print media The National Center received in 2002 were ...
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New Visions Commentary: Let Us Once Again Recommit Ourselves to Those Values Which Define Us, by Dr. Condoleezza Rice

Sundays in my family meant church. It was the center of our lives. In segregated black Birmingham of the late 1950s and early 1960s, the church was not just a place of worship; it was the social and civic center ...
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Special Report: Climate-Gate: What Is the President Being Accused Of, Exactly? by Michael Catanzaro

"Climate-Gate" is getting a lot of attention. What is the White House being accused of, exactly? Let's take a closer look: 1) The White House is denying a "scientific consensus" that global warming is occurring and that human beings, through ...
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Talking Points on Government Reform #1: A Plea for More Government Oversight

Only 29 percent of the public says it has "a great deal/quite a lot" of confidence in Congress.1 It's no wonder. Congress over the years has let our federal government grow to huge, unmanageable proportions. * Congress appears poised to ...
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Talking Points on Health Care #15: Facts about the Uninsured – Part I

While the vast majority of Americans (86%) have either private health insurance or health care coverage through a government program such as Medicare or Medicaid, approximately 14 percent of all Americans are uninsured. Contrary to popular perception, the uninsured are ...
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Talking Points on Health Care #16: Facts about the Uninsured – Part II

According to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau, an estimated 38.4 million Americans, or about 14% of the total population of 276.5 million, were uninsured in 2000.1 However, contrary to what may be commonly assumed, the uninsured are ...
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