Tag: New Visions Commentary

If Students Can Hold Smutty Stars Accountable, Why Can’t We? by Michael King

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Music videos these days are filled with images of scantily-clad women either exploiting their sexuality or having it exploited. Britney Spears, for example, wears a sheer bodystocking with strategically placed rhinestones - along with other suggestive costumes - in her ...
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Choosing Life Over Death By Being Conservative, by Malcolm Moore

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A New Visions Commentary paper published May 2004 by The National Center for Public Policy Research. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. If you're reading this commentary you're obviously still alive. Up to this point, you probably think you've chosen ...
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Addressing Africa’s Problems, by Michael King

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I recently talked with some old classmates about the crises facing Africa. Contrary to popular belief, the crisis isn't insurmountable once the real problems are identified. Africa's problems are legion. But the perception of Africa's problems is, in and of ...
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Health Activists Suppress Information on Safer Alternative to Smoking, by Gregory Parker

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Despite decades of health warnings, negative ad campaigns and tobacco's well-established bad reputation, 46 million Americans continue to smoke. For many, it's an addiction to the nicotine found in cigarettes that keeps them puffing. There is an alternative, but those ...
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Elitist Environmentalists Say “No Thanks” to New Jobs, by Kevin Martin

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Jobs are a hot political issue these days. While technical support and textiles jobs continue to be "outsourced" to foreign workers in countries like China and India, we must not forget that over 300,000 new jobs were created in America ...
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Elitist “Environmental Justice” Bad News for Minorities

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Environmentalists like playing the race card, but they make a dreadful mistake. They don't play with a full deck. "Environmental justice" is a term green activists use to demonize businesses and complain that the government isn't doing enough to help ...
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Blacks Need Green to Compete with Whites in NASCAR

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A New Visions Commentary paper published March 2004 by The National Center for Public Policy Research. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. Don't expect to spot any black drivers when this weekend's Daytona 500 kicks off the 2004 NASCAR season ...
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Bush’s Immigration Policy: What If His Opponent is a Border Hawk? by Ken Raymond

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In the fall's presidential campaign, imagine what a challenger who is strong on national security issues could do with regard to the proposed Bush immigration policy. There are problems with President Bush's new policy that an ambitious presidential candidate could ...
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Mint Julep Heinz Kerry, by Murdock “Doc” Gibbs

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I call it selective liberal outrage. Listen to any evening newscast and you hear liberals spouting verbal assaults and vicious attacks on anything conservative. They are trashing anyone with even a remote association with an exclusive golf club or connection ...
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Why Courting the Black Vote Won’t Work, by La Shawn Barber

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Justifiably confident going into the election cycle, Republicans have announced they hope to win 25 percent of the black vote. Former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has great expectations. "If we get African-American votes, [the Democrats] are in ...
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