Ed Crane, president of the free-market Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. has advocated Personal Retirement Accounts (PRAs) since the 1980s. Crane calls President Bush "heroically bold" for selling Social Security reform across the country. "But it seems to me he's ...
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A Capitol Hill Briefing on Monday, March 27 noon - 1:30 385 Russell Senate Office Building Open to the public Participants include: Terrence Scanlon President, Capital Research Center Introduction David Hogberg Executive Director, Greenwatch Capital Research Center Topic: Opening Remarks ...
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1.  There is no consensus among scientists that man is causing the Earth to get appreciably warmer.  In fact, the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM) received signatures from over 17,100 basic and applied American scientists -- two-thirds with ...
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Air Quality:  Between 1993 and 2002, aggregate emissions of the six principle pollutants (nitrogen dioxide, ozone, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter, carbon monoxide and lead) decreased 19 percent.1 Volatile organic compound emissions from cars and trucks have fallen 73.8 percent since ...
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"Using less wood is logically inconsistent with reducing C02 emissions on this planet. So the solution is to grow more trees and use more wood.  And the public is being told, unfortunately, the opposite by many people -- and they're ...
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Washington, D.C. - Although many environmental organizations will strain to find the black lining in the silver cloud of environmental progress on the occasion of Earth Day, the Earth Day Information Center, a project of The National Center for Public ...
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Our David Hogberg attends a House hearing on Health Savings Accounts, and comes away with a few observations: A good hearing on HSAs took place Wednesday before the House Ways and Means Committee, with CEOs from various businesses, such as ...
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Message from David and Amy Ridenour “[A]n ultra-conservative think-tank that makes the Cato Institute look like a hotbed of raving Trotskyist revolutionaries.” That’s how the liberal magazine Salon recently described your National Center for Public Policy Research. They meant it ...
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We have learned from the outset that self-preservation is the first law of nature. We know that "for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." We know the "Golden Rule": Do unto others as you would have them ...
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The Florida Supreme Court recently outlawed the Sunshine State's program to allow parents to move their kids from poor-quality local public schools and send them to other, better public schools and select private schools. Reflecting on this action, I can't ...
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