BACKGROUND: The stage is being set for another Senate confrontation over drilling in the Artic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Pro-drilling Senators are considering adding an ANWR provision to the FY 2004 budget reconciliation bill. As reconciliation bills cannot be filibustered ...
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A New Visions Commentary paper published January 2003 by The National Center for Public Policy Research, 501 Capitol Ct., N.E., Washington, DC 20002, 202/543-4110, Fax 202-543-5975, E-Mail [email protected], Web http://www.nationalcenter.org. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. Black America needs to ...
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It's a peculiar and pervasive phenomenon in the nation's capital. Invent a major problem where none exists, then propose a complicated and costly solution, create yet another bureaucratic fiefdom and hand out scads of federal grant money and patronage positions ...
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Dear Friend, A few months ago, one of my colleagues here at The National Center got out a ruler and a calculator and figured out that, if copies of all the print media The National Center received in 2002 were ...
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Sundays in my family meant church. It was the center of our lives. In segregated black Birmingham of the late 1950s and early 1960s, the church was not just a place of worship; it was the social and civic center ...
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"Climate-Gate" is getting a lot of attention. What is the White House being accused of, exactly? Let's take a closer look: 1) The White House is denying a "scientific consensus" that global warming is occurring and that human beings, through ...
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Only 29 percent of the public says it has "a great deal/quite a lot" of confidence in Congress.1 It's no wonder. Congress over the years has let our federal government grow to huge, unmanageable proportions. * Congress appears poised to ...
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While the vast majority of Americans (86%) have either private health insurance or health care coverage through a government program such as Medicare or Medicaid, approximately 14 percent of all Americans are uninsured. Contrary to popular perception, the uninsured are ...
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According to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau, an estimated 38.4 million Americans, or about 14% of the total population of 276.5 million, were uninsured in 2000.1 However, contrary to what may be commonly assumed, the uninsured are ...
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Some advocates argue that a universal government run "single payer" heath system is the solution to America's health care problems of rising costs and a substantial uninsured population. However, the experience of countries with such nationalized health systems shows that ...
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