Hot Topics 2001

December 2001

• New Visions Commentary: At the Choctaw Terminal Freight Depot in Little Rock, a Piece of Black History is Lost by Kimberley Jane Wilson - December 2001
• New Visions Commentary: King Family is Selling Out Martin's Legacy by Michael King - December 2001
• New Visions Commentary: Still Reflecting on September 11 and Security by R.D. Davis - December 2001
• New Visions Commentary: Will Blacks Fall for the "Old Line" -- the Race Card -- Once Again? by Kevin Martin
• New Visions Commentary: Weak Preachers Want bin Laden "Safe and Saved, Not "Dead or Alive" by Jesse Peterson
• Holiday Greetings to Members of the United States Military - December 2001
• Project 21 Release: Congress Passes Environmental Legislation to Benefit Blighted Inner-City Communities - December 2001
• Relief Report Regulatory Newsletter: Special Holiday Edition - December 2001
• National Policy Analysis #381: The Grinch Who Stole Our Business by Christopher Burger - December 2001
• National Policy Analysis #380: Patience or Panic? - The EPA Seems to Let Demographics Decide by Syd Gernstein - December 2001
• Ten Second Response: Senate Democrats' Energy Bill Promotes Global Warming Theory by Gretchen Randall - December 17, 2001
• Political Money Monitor #27: Campaign Regulation a Casualty of Terrorist Attack?; Union Asked to Stop Funding of Anti-War Groups; more - December 17, 2001
• Project 21 Press Release: As Civil Rights Commission Refuses to Seat Black Appointee, Black Network Says New Official's Conservative Beliefs Are No Justification for Discrimination - December 2001
• Ten Second Response ­ Latest NAS Global Warming Study Poorly Reported by Tom Randall - December 13, 2001
• National Policy Analysis #379: A Ban on Embryonic Cloning: Would It Be Constitutional? by Amy Ridenour - December 2001
• National Policy Analysis #378: Integral Fast Reactors: Source of Safe, Abundant, Non-Polluting Power by George S. Stanford, Ph.D. - December 2001
• Project 21 Press Release: Is It Wrong to Require Work in Exchange for a Welfare Check? Black Group Says Public Housing Residents Wrong to Spurn Community Service Provision - December 2001
• Letter to a Soldier: Thanks from the National Defense Center -December 2001
• National Policy Analysis #377: National Missile Defense: Learning the Lessons of Pearl Harbor by Grant Threlfall - December 2001
  

November 2001

• Ten Second Response: Rep. Markey Misses the Mark on Nuclear Safety by Christopher Burger - November 30, 2001 - November 30, 2001
• National Policy Analysis #376: Beating Swords into Plowshares - The 21st Century Way by Tom Randall - November 2001
• National Policy Analysis #375: Wishes Won't Fuel Our Economy: We Need Oil Drilling by Amy Ridenour - November 2001
• Scoop Newsletter #223 - Banning Tobacco Use at Home; Honoring RFK Versus Bill Buckley; more - November 26, 2001
• Ten Second Reponse: ­ Media Overplays Risk of Terrorist Attacks on Nuclear Power Plants - November 16, 2001
• New Visions Commentary: Who's the Real Source of Wartime Hysteria? by Kimberley Jane Wilson - November 2001
• New Visions Commentary: U.S. Space Program is Black America's Salvation by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D. - November 2001
• Ten Second Response: Federal Agency Will Not Appeal Court Decision on "Endangered" Salmon - November 15, 2001
• Relief Report Newsletter #101: Nuclear Power in the Age of Terrorism; Veterans & ANWR - November 13, 2001
• Scoop Newsletter #222: Set a Place for Freedom at Your Thanksgiving Table - November 9, 2001
• Scoop Newsletter #221: "If You Won't Fly Our Flag, Don't Cash Our Check" - November 5, 2001
• Ten Second Response ­ Jim Jeffords' New Proposed "Multi-Pollutant" Bill Would Cost Jobs And Billions Of Dollars - 11/5/01
• National Policy Analysis #374: Terrorism and Nuclear Power: What are the Risks? by Gerald E. Marsh and George S. Stanford - November 2001
• Ten Second Response: Robert Redford Urges Letters To Senators To Stop "Drill The Arctic" Plan - November 2, 2001
• National Policy Analysis #373: They Also Serve: Terrorists Confronted by the Patriotic Fervor of a Free Market by Amy Ridenour - November 2001
• Relief Report #100: Can Alternative Energy Make Us Less Dependent on Mideast Oil, and Help Win the War? - November 1, 2001
  

October 2001

• Scoop Newsletter #220 - October 30, 2001
• Ten Second Response: In Movie Theater Ads, Actor Martin Sheen Attacks Proposed ANWR Drilling - 10/19/01
• Ten Second Response: Senate Democrats Fight Energy Bill -10/18/01
• National Policy Analysis #372: Good News About the Environment: A Review of Bjorn Lomborg's The Skeptical Environmentalist by Amy Ridenour - October 2001
• National Policy Analysis #371: Martial Arts for Media Watchers: A Review of Steven J. Milloy's Junk Science Judo - Self Defense Against Health Scares and Scams by Tom Randall - October 2001
• National Policy Analysis #370: Is it Better to Have a Raise or a Job? Why a Minimum Wage Hike Would Increase Unemployment, Harm Undertrained Workers by Amy Ridenour - October 2001
• New Visions Commentary: The NAACP in Wonderland: Campaign Against Network TV Ignores Serious Issues Facing Black Americans by Kimberley Jane Wilson - October 2001
• New Visions Commentary: Note to Congresswoman McKinney: Silence is Golden by Michael King - October 2001
• New Visions Commentary: The Digital Divide: Claims of Technological Segregation Mostly Hot Air by Melissa Wiedbrauk - October 2001
• New Visions Commentary: Minimum Wage Increases: Although Not Designed to be Racist, They Simply Are - October 2001
• Relief Report Environmental & Regulatory Newsletter #99 - October 12, 2001
• Budget Watch Newsletter #43 - October 6, 2001
• Open letter to AFL-CIO President John Sweeney Regarding the AFL-CIO's Support for Organizations Opposing a Military Response to Terrorist Attacks - October 5, 2001
• National Policy Analysis #369: Let it Be Our Legacy: Making America Safe with Missile Defense by Amy Ridenour - October 2001
  

September 2001

• National Policy Analysis #368: As a Nation Struggles, Domestic Terrorists Brag by Tom Randall - September 2001
• National Policy Analysis #367: In the War Against Terrorism, Our Old Friends are Our True Friends by Joe Roche - September 2001
• National Policy Analysis #366: Leading Institutions Support Groups Opposing a U.S. Military Response by Amy Ridenour - September 2001
• Ten Second Response: Energy Bill Held Up in Senate - September 28, 2001
• National Policy Analysis #365: Reprocessing, Waste and Bombs: Good News on the Energy Front by Gerald E. Marsh and George S. Stanford - September 2001
• National Policy Analysis #364: Do Your Duty by Edmund F. Haislmaier - September 2001
• National Policy Analysis #363: These Dead Shall Not Have Died in Vain by Amy Ridenour - September 2001
• Scoop #219: "Groups Oppose a U.S. Military Response to Terrorists" - September 20, 2001
• Do SUVs and Suburban Living Inspire Terrorism? The Boston Globe may think so. See their columnist's view, and our response
• Scoop #218 - September 14, 2001: "Do Your Duty" (also printed in National Policy Analysis #364)
• Scoop #217 - September 12, 2001: NCPPR Terrorism Statement (also printed in National Policy Analysis #363)
• National Center for Public Policy Research Statement in Light of the Terrorist Attack on America - September 11, 2001
• New Visions Commentary: In the Aftermath of Terror, We Must Make the Right Decisions by John Meredith - September 2001
• Project 21 New Visions: The Change by Kimberley Jane Wilson - September 2001 (Terrorism commentary)
• National Policy Analysis #362: Hopping Across the Digital Divide by Melissa Wiedbrauk - September 2001
• National Policy Analysis #361: A Global Warming Primer by Gerald Marsh - September 2001 (Please note: pages 7-8 and page 16 of this document were updated in July 2002 and this paper was republished as National Policy Analysis #420, available online here)
• National Policy Analysis #360: Bush's Stern Approach to Arafat a Welcome Sign by Grant Threlfall - September 2001
• National Policy Analysis #359: Unocal Uses Regulatory Process for Profit; Stands to Make Billions by David Ridenour - September 2001
• National Policy Analysis #358: Lawsuit Against Atlanta Braves is Way Off Base: Suing, Not Baseball, is Becoming Our National Pastime by Amy Ridenour - September 2001
• National Policy Analysis #357: Global Warming Policies Could Unfairly Harm Minorities and the Poor by Rep. John Peterson (R-PA) - September 2001
• National Policy Analysis #356: New Bio Oil Grown by American Farmers Offers Benefits to Farmers, Consumers and the Environment by Tom Randall - September 2001
• National Policy Analysis #355: United Nations: Decommission Child Soldiers, but Not Our Freedoms by Grant Threlfall - September 2001
• New Visions Commentary: Global Warming Policies Could Unfairly Harm Minorities and the Poor by U.S. Congressman John Peterson (R-PA) - September 2001
• New Visions Commentary: Expectations are Everything by Dr. B.B. Robinson - September 2001
• Legal Briefs #20 - September 4, 2001
  

August 2001

• National Policy Analysis #354: It's Time to Face Facts - Current Alternative Energy Options Don't Add Up by Syd Gernstein - August 2001
• National Policy Analysis #353: Mr. President, Use your Bully Pulpit: Bush is Right on Environmental Issues, But Fails to Say So by Tom Randall - August 2001
• National Policy Analysis #352: National Missile Defense: Learning the Lessons of Pearl Harbor by Grant Threlfall - August 2001
• National Policy Analysis #351: Stopping Vieques Bombing is a Dud Idea by David Almasi - August 2001
• National Policy Analysis #350: Missile Defense Takes the MADness Out of Defense Policy by Grant Threlfall - August 2001
• National Policy Analysis #349: Climate Change Science?: National Academy of Sciences Global Warming Report Fails to Live Up to Its Billing, by Gerald Marsh - August 2001
• New Visions Commentary: Tuning Out Jesse Jackson by Michael King - August 2001
• New Visions Commentary: Reparations, Anyone? by Kimberley Jane Wilson - August 2001
• New Visions Commentary: Should African-Americans Favor Privatizing Social Security? by Dr. B.B. Robinson - August 2001
• New Visions Commentary: I Find CBS Rather Insensitive by Kevin Martin - August 2001
• Relief Report #98 - 8/1/01
  

July 2001

• Speech of Executive Director David Almasi at the National Missile Defense Press Conference, U.S. Capitol - July 31, 2001
• National Policy Analysis #348: Patients' Bill of Rights Could Provide Patients With a Bigger Health Care Bill by Syd Gernstein - July 2001
• National Policy Analysis #347: Medicare: An Alphabet Soup of Programs Lacking Proper Nutrition For Patients by David Ridenour - July 2001
• National Policy Analysis #346: Bush's Rx Drug Proposal Will Help Seniors without Expanding the Federal Bureaucracy by Amy Ridenour - July 2001
• National Policy Analysis #345: In the Klamath Basin, Farmers and Ranchers are Becoming the Real Endangered Species by Gretchen Randall - July 2001
• Relief Report #97 - 7/15/01
• National Policy Analysis #344: The U.S. Must Tread Carefully to Avoid Creating More Fundamentalist Islamic Governments by Amy Ridenour - July 2001
• Political Money Monitor #26 - July 12, 2001
• National Policy Analysis #343: Campaign to Save Our Environment Plays Loose with the Truth on Arsenic by Tom Randall - July 2001
• National Policy Analysis #342: When It Comes to Missile Defense, Saying "We Can't" Won't Save Lives by Amy Ridenour - July 2001
• National Policy Analysis #341: 1972 Treaty Grants the United Nations Control Over American Historical Landmarks by Melissa Wiedbrauk - July 2001
• New Visions Commentary: Black Men and Families: What's Going On? by Kimberley Jane Wilson - July 2001
• New Visions Commentary: Where's the NAACP? by R.D. Davis- July 2001
• New Visions Commentary: Sharpton Requires a Foggy Memory by Michael King - July 2001
• New Visions Commentary: The Ten Commandments: Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Melissa Wiedbrauk - July 2001
• Project 21 Release: Black Activists Support Pledge of Allegiance: Group Outraged by Black Lawmaker Refusing to Honor the Flag and Nation - July 2001

June 2001

• NPA #340: Devolution to the States is Working for Welfare; It Can Work for Public Lands by Gretchen Randall - June 2001
• Press Release: National Center for Public Policy Research Announces New Additions to Environmental, Energy and Regulatory Policy Staff and the Opening of New Office in Chicago - June 2001
• Relief Report Environmental News Tips Newsletter #96 - June 19, 2001
• Press Release: National Center for Public Policy Research Promotes David Almasi to Post of Executive Director - June 2001
• New Visions Commentary: The Media Proves McWhorter Right: Some African-American Youth Believe Academic Excellence is Not "Cool" by Dr. B.B. Robinson - June 2001
• New Visions Commentary: New Gasoline May Force Blacks to Run on Empty by Syd Gernstein - June 2001
• National Policy Analysis #339: Fathers Count, Yet Many Count Them Out by Amy Ridenour - June 2001
• National Policy Analysis #338: Energy Crisis Spreads: Aluminum Industry Faces Shutdown, Layoffs Due to Electricity Shortage by John Carlisle - June 2001
• New Visions Commentary: How To Raise a Thug by Kimberley Jane Wilson - June 2001
• New Visions Commentary: A Man of the (Tattered) Cloth by Michael King - June 2001

May 2001

• Scoop Newsletter #216 - May 31, 2001
• National Policy Analysis #337: Kyoto Coverup: TV News Gives One-Sided View On Global Warming by John Carlisle - May 2001
• Relief Report #95 - May 25, 2001
• Project 21 Press Release: Black Network Opposes Attack on Motherhood: School's Rejection of Mother's Day Activities Just Part of Larger Attack on Traditional Families - May 2001
• New Visions Commentary: Who Should Pay for Reparations? Black Americans... Obviously by Mike Green - May 2001
• New Visions Commentary: Everyone Deserves Equal Access to a Quality Education by Akbar Shabazz - May 2001
• New Visions Commentary: The Decline and Fall of Jesse Jackson by Kevin Martin - May 2001
• New Visions Commentary: Motherhood Under Attack by Rita Thompson - May 2001
• National Policy Analysis #336: Natural Heat Vent May Counter Global Warming by John Carlisle - May 2001
• National Policy Analysis #335: California's Electric Rate Increase Proposal Would Shield Voters, But Devastate Business by Amy Ridenour - May 2001
  

April 2001

• 2001 Earth Day Information Center
• National Policy Analysis #334: Carbon Dioxide is Good for the Environment by John Carlisle - April 2001
• National Policy Analysis #333: The Perils of Success: Environmentalism at a Crossroads by John Carlisle - April 2001
• National Policy Analysis #332: Bush is Right on the Environment - But He Needs Help to Prove It by Amy Ridenour - April 2001
• Relief Report #73 - 4/22/01
• New Visions Commentary: Elbow Grease and Sweat Equity by Jimmie Lee Hollis - April 2001
• New Visions Commentary: Unify and Flourish by B.B. Robinson, Ph.D. - April 2001
• Legal Briefs #19 - April 20, 2001
• New Visions Commentary: Global Warming: Hot Air That's Going to Make Me Colder and Poorer by Edmund Peterson - April 2001
• Scoop #215 - April 19, 2001
• Press Release: Legislation to Federalize Immigration in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands Amounts to Economic Sanctions on a U.S. Possession, Says Group - May 2001
• Black Businessmen Speak Out Against Death Taxes: Wealthy Blacks Seeking to Pass on Hard-Won Legacy to Their Community and Families Join Project 21's Call for Tax Reform With Newspaper Ad Campaign - April 2001
• Relief Report #72 - 4/18/01

March 2001

• Political Money Monitor #25 - March 27, 2001
• Press Release: Yet Another Postage Rate Increase is Not Justified - March 2001
• Press Release: Bush's Carbon Dioxide Decision a Victory for Consumers - March 2001
• Press Release: Environmental Regulations Contributing to Air Traffic Congestion - March 2001
• National Policy Analysis #331: Mad About the Quality of Air Travel These Days? Blame Environmentalists by John Carlisle - March 2001
• Project 21 Press Release: Where's the Outrage Over Robert Byrd? Group Decries Racist Remark by Liberal Lawmaker - March 2001
• New Visions Commentary: A Good Strong Slap by Kimberley Jane Wilson - March 2001
• New Visions Commentary: Keeping Players in School: A Slam-Dunk Idea by Michael King - March 2001
• New Visions Commentary: Civil Rights Movement Needs Consistency by David Almasi - March 2001
• National Policy Analysis #330: Agency Under Fire: Did NHSTA Speed Up Rollover Ratings to Aid Clinton's Personal Injury Lawyer Friends? by Kevin Martin - March 2001
• National Policy Analysis #329: Often for Better and Sometimes for Worse, Lawyers Played Key Role in Black History by Council Nedd - March 2001

February 2001

• National Policy Analysis #328: President Bush Must Kill Kyoto Global Warming Treaty and Oppose Efforts to Regulate Carbon Dioxide - February 2001
• New Visions Commentary: Jesse Jackson's Church of Instant Forgiveness by Deroy Murdock - February 2001
• New Visions Commentary: Stupid Justice by R.D. Davis - February 2001
• New Visions Commentary: Taking a New Look at Black History by Sharon Marshall - February 2001
• New Visions Commentary: African-Americans Reaching Their Goals in the 21st Century by Dr. B. B. Robinson - February 2001
• National Policy Analysis #327: Congressional Intervention in the Internet Domain Name Process Threatens Independence of the Internet by Amy Ridenour - February 2001
• National Policy Analysis #326: After False Starts, Ford Motor Company Improves its Defense of SUVs by Amy Ridenour - February 2001

January 2001

• Press Release: Bush Is Right: Opening ANWR To Oil Exploration Would Help Consumers Without Hurting Environment - January 2001
• National Policy Analysis #324: Environmentalists' Opposition to Oil Exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Is Unfounded by John K. Carlisle - January 2001
• New Visions Commentary: You Don't Need My Permission to be Successful by Mike Ramey - January 2001
• New Visions Commentary: Whose Gun and Under Whose Control? by Jimmie Lee Hollis - January 2001
• New Visions Commentary: Let's See What Works by Jackie Cissell - January 2001
• New Visions Commentary: Choking Black Prosperity by Syd Gernstein - January 2001
• National Policy Analysis #325: Government Policies Toward Business Help Push Economy Toward Recession by Amy Ridenour - January 2001
• Scoop #215 - January 10, 2001
• Project 21 Press Release: Black Group Opposes the Lynching of John Ashcroft's Reputation - January 2001
• National Policy Analysis #323: Gale Norton's Colorado Record Bodes Well for Innovative New Approach to Environmental Protection at Interior by John K. Carlisle - January 2001

 

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