Author: The National Center

Treaty to Combat Unproven Global Warming Threat Would Hurt Americans' Standard of Living, by John K. Carlisle

Treaty to Combat Unproven Global Warming Threat Would Hurt Americans’ Standard of Living, by John K. Carlisle

National Policy Analysis #309 /
Engaging in the global warming debate is often akin to a journey into the surreal. Proponents of the theory that man-made greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, are dangerously heating up the planet urge politicians and the American people to support ...
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Economic Opportunity and Social Issues Trump Environment as Top Concerns for Poor and Minorities, by John Carlisle

Economic Opportunity and Social Issues Trump Environment as Top Concerns for Poor and Minorities, by John Carlisle

National Policy Analysis #310 /
Environmental laws are unfair to minorities and the poor because, although they are least able to pay, they must bear the greatest costs for adhering to those laws through lost jobs and higher prices. The time is long overdue for ...
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Good For Thee, But Not For Me, by Mike Ramey

Good For Thee, But Not For Me, by Mike Ramey

New Visions Commentary /
Who could forget the sound and the fury of the recent Million Mom March (it was thousands, actually) in Washington, D.C.? Ahh, the pageantry. Ooh, the morality. Ouch - the hypocrisy! Say what? Rosie O'Donnell, the television-talk-show-host-turned-anti-gun-advocate - the woman ...
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Carnivore is Hungry for Your Privacy, by Michael King

Carnivore is Hungry for Your Privacy, by Michael King

New Visions Commentary /
A New Visions Commentary paper published August 2000 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. Carnivore is hungry, and ...
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Raynard Johnson and the Ghosts of Mississippi, by Kimberley Jane Wilson

Raynard Johnson and the Ghosts of Mississippi, by Kimberley Jane Wilson

New Visions Commentary /
On June 16, Jerry Johnson was confronted by every good parent's nightmare. Hanging from a pecan tree in his front yard was the body of his youngest child, his boy, Raynard. Seventeen-year-old Raynard was handsome, got good grades and was ...
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Clean Air Regulations Harmful to Minority Economic Gains, by Syd Gernstein

Clean Air Regulations Harmful to Minority Economic Gains, by Syd Gernstein

National Policy Analysis #303 /
Black Americans have made remarkable progress in recent decades. The income levels of black households have tripled over the past 24 years, and the number of black-owned businesses more than doubled between 1987 and 1997. If these trends hold, racial ...
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How the Environmental Protection Agency Became a Public Health Risk, by Michael Centrone

How the Environmental Protection Agency Became a Public Health Risk, by Michael Centrone

National Policy Analysis #304 /
If the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was established to safeguard the nation's environment, then why does it require people to purchase gasoline that pollutes the water and makes them sick? That, after all, is the result of the EPA's controversial ...
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Black Network Applauds Congressional Tax Relief - "When We've Overpaid, We Want Our Money Back." - July 2000

Black Network Applauds Congressional Tax Relief – “When We’ve Overpaid, We Want Our Money Back.” – July 2000

Press Release /
Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 applaud efforts by congressional leaders to provide tax relief to all Americans through the repeal of the marriage tax and the "death tax" on estates, despite veto threats by the Clinton White ...
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Death Taxes are Killing Black Businesses, by Syd Gernstein

Death Taxes are Killing Black Businesses, by Syd Gernstein

New Visions Commentary /
Do you ever feel like you're being taxed to death? The estates of many Americans are taxed when they die - sometimes creating terrible problems for those still living. And these unfair taxes may be the death of new African-American ...
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Gasoline Additives Fuel High Prices and Environmental Problems, by Syd Gernstein

Gasoline Additives Fuel High Prices and Environmental Problems, by Syd Gernstein

National Policy Analysis #302 /
There has never been a worse time for the government to enact policies that raise gasoline prices. In just the past 12 months, gasoline prices have skyrocketed - rising almost 45%.1 Desperate citizens are urging the government to intervene. It ...
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