A Constitutional Right As Fragile As The Ecosystem

By Nancie G. Marzulla When Congress returns from its summer recess after Labor Day, it will face a decision of potentially landmark proportions concerning private property rights. Namely, Congress must decide whether to fund the federal share of the Headwaters ...
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NAACP: Serious Problems With The Proposed Voluntary National Tests of Reading and Mathematics

The Department of Education's effort to develop and administer Voluntary National Tests in Reading and Mathematics for 4th and 8th grade students creates cause for real concern about harm to children through misuse of the tests if they are developed ...
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An Answer to America’s “Race Question” – September 1997

The national dialogue on race has always been with us. Every year there are articles, books, television programs and incidents that make race the central issue at kitchen tables and water fountains across America. Most recently, a group of Congressmen, ...
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Bigger Than Breast Implants; Pickled Justice?; Millions for Lawyers, Zero for Plaintiffs; Stop the Presses: Accidents Can Happen; Spousal Lawsuits to Sweep Japan?

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Bigger Than Breast ImplantsUnless the public learned a lesson from other class action suits another legal hysteria could be in the offing: Trial lawyers are representing hundreds of plaintiffs in lawsuits alleging that latex products caused allergies. One such lawyer, ...
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Memorandum to Congressional Oversight Committee Chairmen: Forbes Assails Clinton’s Character Assassins

August 13, 1997 TO: MEMBERS OF GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT COMMITTEES FROM: STEVE FORBES, HONORARY CHAIRMAN, AMERICANS FOR HOPE, GROWTH AND OPPORTUNITY SUBJECT: EVE FORBES, HONORARY CHAIRMAN SUBJECT: "CLINTON'S CHARACTER ASSASSINS" Have you read THE WEEKLY STANDARD piece, "Inside The Clinton Attack ...
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Forbes Rips Clinton as New Report Shows Teen Drug Use Still Soaring

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Press ReleaseAmericans for Hope, Growth and Opportunity FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 13, 1997 AMERICANS FOR HOPE, GROWTH AND OPPORTUNITY RIPS CLINTON FOR LACK OF LEADERSHIP AS NEW REPORT SHOWS PRE-TEEN DRUG USE SOARING"When the number of 12-year-olds who know cocaine ...
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Would You Spend $2,750 More for a New Car Just To Make Air Pollution Worse?

Activities at the July Environmental Policy Task Force meeting chaired by David Ridenour of The National Center for Public Policy Research. New Law Says OMB Must Identify Government Regulations for Reform: Will It Ignore the Law? Angela Antonelli of The ...
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Farmers to Bear Brunt of New Clean Air Standards, by Chad Cowan

The Environmental Protection Agency recently imposed new, more strict air quality standards that many of the nation's farmers believe will have a disproportionate, negative impact on their way of life. "While the EPA's plan to improve air quality may have ...
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Scholarship Act Is D.C. Youngsters’ Best Hope for Education, by Arturo Silva

OverviewHouse Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX), Senators Joseph Lieberman (D-CT), Dan Coats (R-IN), and Sam Brownback (R-KS) have introduced legislation, "District of Columbia Student Opportunity Scholarship Act of 1997," to grant scholarships to nearly 2,000 low-income students in the District ...
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The Green Pages: A Directory of Property Rights, Wise Use and Free Market Environmental Organizations

 IntroductionThe Green Pages is a directory of property rights, wise use and free market environmental organizations. It was designed with one goal in mind: To help facilitate greater networking between organizations seeking common-sense solutions to environmental problems.To this end, the ...
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