We issued a couple of press releases on the President's State of the Union speech tonight. This one gives thumbs up to the President's health care proposals, while this one gives thumbs down to the President's call for increasing fuel ...
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Washington, D.C. - The National Center for Public Policy Research calls on President Bush to reconsider his call for an increase in Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards, as he apparently called for in his State of the Union ...
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After seeing the Washington Post's "Universal Health Coverage Attracts New Support; Onetime Foes Become Unlikely Advocates, Citing Rising Costs and Tougher Access" by Christopher Lee in Monday's Washington Post, I asked the National Center for Public Policy Research's health care ...
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Washington, D.C. - The National Center for Public Policy Research applauds President Bush's State of the Union proposal to change the tax treatment of health insurance. Under current law, only employers receive a tax deduction for providing health insurance to ...
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Our David Hogberg has reviewed a New York Times column on universal health care and -- surprise -- found it wanting. An excerpt: [Paul Krugman says], Some say that we can't afford universal health care, even though every year lack ...
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Inclusion of Planned Parenthood in a self-described civil rights coalition has outraged members of the black leadership network Project 21, as Planned Parenthood advocates and provides abortions - particularly in the black community. "How can a civil rights group that ...
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Willisms says: "From 2009-2017, the number of retirees receiving Social Security will grow by 23.9%, the number of workers by only 4.3%. In other words, the number of retirees will grow more than five times faster than the worker population." ...
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I had been planning to post on Rep. John Dingell's response to the creation of a new House committee on global warming, but Pat Cleary did it so well, I'll just recommend his post ...
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Prompted by the Wall Street Journal editorial about the departure of John Browne from the helm of BP (the company formerly known as British Petroleum), Senior Fellow Tom Borelli sent a letter to the Wall Street Journal, which they published ...
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Scared of debate, scared of free speech, the global warming alarmists sure are scaredy cats. The Wall Street Journal has found another example: Al Gore apparently is afraid to face a genuinely challenging interviewer. The WSJ article begins: Will Al ...
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