Trip to the Police Station Yields Concerns About Safety, by Council Nedd

New Visions Commentary /
Being born in Washington, D.C. and having spent most of my life in the Washington area, I know one gets numb to - and even expects - a certain level of sloth and ineptitude when dealing with city officials. The ...
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A Black Literary Canon for the Long Run, by B.B. Robinson

New Visions Commentary /
The famous economist John Maynard Keynes once remarked, "in the long run, we are all dead." True, but it is also true that - barring the failure of the Earth's systems - generations of our progeny continue on after we ...
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President Bush Offers Plan To Protect Homes and the Environment From More Catastrophic Wild Fires; Environmental Extremists Counter With Plans to Continue the Disasters

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: President Bush, on Thursday, August 22, 2002, issued his initiative to prevent catastrophic wildfires by returning to the sound forest management practices the environmental movement has successfully eliminated. Stung by criticism that the policies set forth by the Sierra ...
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Environmental Groups Use Smokescreen to Dodge Responsibility for Wildfires, by Tom Randall

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: As President Bush travels to Oregon for a major address on wildfires to be delivered on this date, the Wilderness Society and other environmental groups are distorting the truth to escape responsibility for policies that have exacerbated the wildfires ...
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New York Times Sounds False Climate Alarm Once Again: Bush, Not Times, Has It Right On Global Warming, by Tom Randall

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: The New York Times, a leader in false reporting about climate change, has struck again. The paper's August 18 article by Amy Cortese, which reads like an advertisement for insurance companies wishing to sell climate change policies, flatly and ...
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Four American Eco-Terrorists Indicted in Oregon, by Tom Randall

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: A four-count indictment against four American alleged fire bombers was handed down August 14, 2002 in U.S. District Court in Portland, Oregon. The four -- Jacob Sherman, Angela Cesarion, Jeremy Rosenbloom and Michael Scarpetti - are accused of fire ...
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Senator Joe Lieberman Says Property Belongs First To Government, Not The People, by Tom Randall

Ten Second Response /
BACKGROUND: Touring the State Fair in Iowa, where the first presidential vote will be held in 2004, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) criticized President Bush's proposal to make the current temporary tax cuts permanent, saying, "That's not spending restraint. Tax cuts ...
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Even if Millions Rally on the Mall, Reparations Won’t Heal Black America

Press Release /
Huge "Millions for Reparations: They Owe Us" Rally on National Mall on August 17 Opposed by Conservative Black Leadership Group Paying African-Americans reparations now for the long-outlawed practice of slavery is the topic of a rally scheduled for August 17 ...
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Tree-Huggers or Fire-Huggers?: The Environmental Movement’s Confused Forest Policy, by Thomas M. Bonnicksen, Ph.D.

National Policy Analysis #424 /
The drumbeat for prescribed fire has never been louder. The Sierra Club and other environmentalists say this is the way to solve the wildfire crisis: fire is natural and therefore good for forests. Yet, the Sierra Club has a "zero ...
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Daschle’s Election Year Ploy May Open Door for Return of Sound Forest Management Policies, by Tom Randall

National Policy Analysis #425 /
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) and environmental groups such as the Sierra Club may accidentally have opened the door for the return to sound forest management in the United States, and the eventual return to policies preventing catastrophic ...
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