Talking Points on the Environment #35: We Have But One Thing to Fear: Fear Itself (Part II)

Over the past several decades, the American people have been manipulated by a handful of scientists outside the mainstream to fear safe products that improve their quality of life. Products have been removed from the market, banned, or heavily regulated ...
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Buenos Aires Global Warming Summit Fact Sheet

Representatives of some 160 nations will be in Buenos Aires, Argentina November 2-13 to continue work on an international treaty designed to reduce world greenhouse gas emissions (ghgs), gases some scientists contend are accelerating the earth's natural greenhouse effect and ...
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On-Site Report from Buenos Aires Global Warming Talks: November 12, 1998

The latest rumor is that Peter Burleigh, the U.S.'s #2 man at the United Nations in New York, will sign the Kyoto Protocol at 5:00 PM Argentine time today (3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time). According to Assistant Secretary of State ...
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On-Site Report from Buenos Aires Global Warming Talks: November 16, 1998

Peter Burleigh, the Acting US Ambassador to the U.N., signed the Kyoto Protocol on behalf of the Clinton Administration at 3:00 PM EST on November 12. The action symbolically -- but not legally -- commits the U.S. to achieving the ...
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Scoop: December 11, 1998

Your Inside View to the Strategies and Activities of the Conservative Movement in Washington Issue 206 * December 11, 1998 The National Center for Public Policy Research Amy Ridenour, President 20 F Street NW, Suite 700 * Washington, D.C. 20001 ...
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A Virtual Revolution: Government Permitting, Online Shopping May Become a $300 Billion Industry

Holiday shopping will never be the same. Shoppers are spending $2.3 billion online this holiday season, more than double what they spent in 1997.1 And if the federal government doesn't intervene, new developments combined with Americans' passion for the Internet ...
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Good News About Energy

In 1987, the environmentalist Worldwatch Institute predicted an oil shortage would cause a major energy crisis within five years.1 No crisis has occurred. Instead, the oil industry is producing a million more barrels a day than it can sell.2 According ...
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The Internet: Changing our Postal Service and our Holiday Traditions

This year, Americans will send 2.8 billion Christmas and Hanukkah cards.1 What these Americans don't know, however, is that sending a greeting card - and other messages once entrusted to the post office - may shortly become an entirely different ...
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Amistad: Reigniting Fears Through History, by B.B. Robinson – January 1998

New Visions Commentary /
Like most Americans, European-Americans without racist attitudes fear a weak economy, a bad president or schools unable to educate their children. However, many African-Americans believe that European-Americans with racist attitudes still harbor a genuine fear of the day when so-called ...
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A Street Named Martin Luther King, by Kimberley Wilson

New Visions Commentary /
Recently my husband and I were sightseeing in a large urban city. I misread the map and, instead of arriving at the wax museum, we found ourselves headed for the Martin Luther King Memorial Bridge. "Hon, we better turn around ...
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