Author: The National Center

Health Activists Suppress Information on Safer Alternative to Smoking, by Gregory Parker

Health Activists Suppress Information on Safer Alternative to Smoking, by Gregory Parker

New Visions Commentary /
Despite decades of health warnings, negative ad campaigns and tobacco's well-established bad reputation, 46 million Americans continue to smoke. For many, it's an addiction to the nicotine found in cigarettes that keeps them puffing. There is an alternative, but those ...
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Elitist Environmentalists Say "No Thanks" to New Jobs, by Kevin Martin

Elitist Environmentalists Say “No Thanks” to New Jobs, by Kevin Martin

New Visions Commentary /
Jobs are a hot political issue these days. While technical support and textiles jobs continue to be "outsourced" to foreign workers in countries like China and India, we must not forget that over 300,000 new jobs were created in America ...
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Elitist "Environmental Justice" Bad News for Minorities, by David Almasi

Elitist “Environmental Justice” Bad News for Minorities, by David Almasi

New Visions Commentary /
Environmentalists like playing the race card, but they make a dreadful mistake. They don't play with a full deck. "Environmental justice" is a term green activists use to demonize businesses and complain that the government isn't doing enough to help ...
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Health Activists Suppress Information on Safer Alternative to Smoking, by Gregory Parker

Health Activists Suppress Information on Safer Alternative to Smoking, by Gregory Parker

National Policy Analysis #510 /
Despite decades of health warnings, negative ad campaigns and tobacco's well-established bad reputation, 46 million Americans continue to smoke. For many, it's an addiction to the nicotine found in cigarettes that keeps them puffing. There is an alternative, but those ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists Condemn Elitist "Earth Day" - April 2004

Project 21 Press Release: Black Activists Condemn Elitist “Earth Day” – April 2004

Press Release /
Elitist environmental activists observing "Earth Day" on April 22 are promoting a regulatory agenda hostile to minority ambitions for economic and social advancement. Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 prefer an alternative environmental justice agenda that ensures human ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Organization Urges Senator Dodd to Resign Over Insensitive Comments; Senator Urged Punishment for Such Actions By Others in the Past - April 2004

Project 21 Press Release: Black Organization Urges Senator Dodd to Resign Over Insensitive Comments; Senator Urged Punishment for Such Actions By Others in the Past – April 2004

Press Release /
Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 are asking U.S. Senator Christopher J. Dodd to resign his seat in the wake of inappropriate comments he made commemorating fellow senator Robert C. Byrd's 17,000th Senate vote. Senator Dodd said: "I ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Group Applauds Bipartisan Low-Tax Effort - March 2004

Project 21 Press Release: Black Group Applauds Bipartisan Low-Tax Effort – March 2004

Press Release /
Critical of current tax law that effectively encourages American companies to keep their foreign profits abroad, members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 applaud efforts to lower this specific tax rate and allow these companies to bring their profits ...
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Project 21 Press Release: Black Conservatives Commend NAACP for Reversing Position and Considering Morals Clause for Future Image Awards Nominees - March 2004

Project 21 Press Release: Black Conservatives Commend NAACP for Reversing Position and Considering Morals Clause for Future Image Awards Nominees – March 2004

Press Release /
Members of the black conservative organization Project 21 are applauding the NAACP for "seeing the light" by determining that a morals clause may be warranted for future NAACP "Image Award" nominations. The goal of the NAACP's annual Image Awards is ...
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Blacks Need Green to Compete with Whites in NASCAR, by David Almasi

Blacks Need Green to Compete with Whites in NASCAR, by David Almasi

New Visions Commentary /
A New Visions Commentary paper published March 2004 by The National Center for Public Policy Research. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. Don't expect to spot any black drivers when this weekend's Daytona 500 kicks off the 2004 NASCAR season ...
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Bush's Immigration Policy: What If His Opponent is a Border Hawk? by Ken Raymond

Bush’s Immigration Policy: What If His Opponent is a Border Hawk? by Ken Raymond

New Visions Commentary /
In the fall's presidential campaign, imagine what a challenger who is strong on national security issues could do with regard to the proposed Bush immigration policy. There are problems with President Bush's new policy that an ambitious presidential candidate could ...
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