HOT TOPICS 1999

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December 1999

• National Policy Analysis #273: Single Mom's Christmas Ruined by Government Scrooge - December 1999
• National Policy Analysis #272: Tastes Great, Less Filling: New Bioengineered Foods Bring Benefits to Consumers - December 1999
• National Policy Analysis #271: No Pleasing Environmentalists - December 1999
• Press Release: Anti-Biotechnology Policies Backed by Some Seattle Protesters Could Cause Preventable Starvation in the Developing World - December 1999
• New Visions Commentary: Keeping Kids Safe on the Internet - December 1999
• New Visions Commentary: Feminists Fight Congressional Support for Good Dads - December 1999
• New Visions Commentary: Privacy and Prejudice - December 1999
• New Visions Commentary: Bill Bradley Fouls the Civil Rights Act - December 1999

 

November 1999

• Press Release: Activists Attack Bio-Engineered Food Despite Benefits to the Poor and the Sick; Environmental Groups Join in Attack on Technology that Aids the Environment - November 1999
• National Policy Analysis #270: Environmental Regulations Sending Americans to the Poorhouse - November 1999
• New Visions Commentary: True Mediation, Not Intimidation, Needed in Decatur - November 1999
• National Policy Analysis #269: Clinton Administration Should Reject Any United Nations Demand Limiting U.S. Defenses - November 1999
• New Visions Commentary: Blacks Need a Hate-Your-Own-Race Crime Bill - November 1999
• New Visions Commentary: Can You Go Home Again? - November 1999
• Press Release: Does Clinton Care About Civil Rights? Justice Department Refuses to Prosecute, Covers Up Alleged Black Murders - November 1999
• Press Release: Black Judges and Blackface: Liberals Playing Race Card Riles Black Leadership Coalition - October 1999
  
  

October 1999

• Press Release: NAACP Baseball Boycott Bites Blacks; Boycott of Detroit Tigers Owner Could Hurt More Than Help - October 1999
• Press Release: Environmentalists Try to Whip Up Hysteria to Advance Global Warming Treaty; No Evidence To Support Apocalyptic Claims that Major Cities will be Flooded - October 1999
• National Policy Analysis #268: Is Summertime Smog an Increasing Threat to Public Health? - October 1999
• Press Release: President's Road Ban Threatens Forest Health, Hinders Public Access: Roads in National Forests Are Vital for Firefighting and Recreational Access - October 1999
• National Policy Analysis #267: Congress Should Hold Hearings on FDIC Abuse of Citizens - October 1999
• National Policy Analysis #266: Government Blames Gun Manufacturers for Crime in Public Housing, But Files Lawsuits to Keep Criminals There - October 1999
• National Policy Analysis #265: Federal Tobacco Lawsuit Contaminated by Hypocrisy - October 1999
• New Visions Commentary: Al Gor(e)ing Blacks Again - October 1999
• New Visions Commentary: Major Payne, Mrs. Tingle and the ACLU - October 1999
• New Visions Commentary: Setting the Struggle Back - October 1999
• New Visions Commentary: A Loss of a Friend and Leader - October 1999
• National Policy Analysis #264: New Technology Will Allow Us to Dodge the Hardest Punches of Hurricanes - October 1999
• National Policy Analysis #263: Federal Tobacco Lawsuit Could Pave Way for Litigation Tax on Other Industries - October 1999
  
  

September 1999

• Press Release: The Federal Tobacco Lawsuit is Bad Economics, Bad Law & Bad Governing - September 1999
• National Policy Analysis #262: The Future of Breast Implant Litigation May Be a Bust for Trial Lawyers - September 1999
• New Visions Commentary: Come to the Table, Don't "Battle to the Death" - September 1999
• New Visions Commentary: Let's Put Some Spirit into Government Aid - September 1999
• New Visions Commentary: Violence in America - September 1999
• New Visions Commentary: Junior High and High Schoolers: Think About Your Future! - September 1999
  
  

August 1999

• Political Money Monitor #22 - August 20, 1999
• New Visions Commentary: KKKapitol Hill? - August 1999
• New Visions Commentary: When Birth Control Could Lead to Race Control - August1999
• National Policy Analysis #261: Recent Russian Military Aggression Underscores Need for Missile Defense System - August 1999
• Project 21 Release: Linking Abortion to Crime Could Label Unborn Black Americans as Crooks - August 1999
• New Visions Commentary: On the NAACP and Boycotts - August 1999
• New Visions Commentary: Rudy Giuliani's Crime-Fighting Policies Save Black Lives
• National Policy Analysis #260: The Internet Works Best Without Government Regulation - August 1999
• National Policy Analysis #259: Clinton's Flawed China Policy: Is Clinton-Style Engagement Really Constructive? - August 1999
• Press Release: Administration, Democratic Party Should Cooperate in Investigation of Interior Department Officials, Says Group - August 1999

 

July 1999

• National Policy Analysis #258: Lawmakers Attempt to Tamper With Senate Jury on Global Warming Treaty - July 1999
• National Policy Analysis #257: Put a Brake on Government Lawsuits: Government Lawsuits Bypass Elected Representatives and Aren't the Best Way to Solve Social Problems - July 1999
• Press Release: Raising SUV Fuel Economy Standards Would Mean More Traffic Fatalities:Effort to Save Fuel Linked to 46,000 Auto Deaths Since 1975 - July 1999
• National Policy Analysis #256: Raising Sports Utility Vehicle Fuel Efficiency Standards Would Kill Americans - July 1999
• Press Release: Kyoto Treaty Early Crediting Would Tamper with Senate Jury - July 1999
• New Visions Commentary: Rudy Giuliani's Crime-Fighting Policies Save Black Lives - July 1999
• New Visions Commentary: The Legal Dis-Service Corporation - July 1999
• New Visions Commentary: Black Involvement in the Forbes Campaign Good for the GOP and the U.S.A. - July 1999
• New Visions Commentary: Thou Shalt Not Scapegoat: Why Posting the Ten Commandments In Public Schools is Too Little, Too Late - July 1999
• New Visions Commentary: Abraham, Martin and Now John, Jr. - July 1999
• Press Release: Press A Federal Tobacco Lawsuit is Bad Economics, Bad Law & Bad Governing - July 1999
• National Policy Analysis #255: A Federal Tobacco Lawsuit: Bad Economics, Bad Law and Bad Governing - July 1999
• National Policy Analysis #254: Nature, Not Man, is Responsible for West Coast Salmon Decline - July 1999
• National Policy Analysis #253: Americans Losing Control of U.S. Treasures to United Nations - July 1999

 

June 1999

• Relief Report #70 - June 30, 1999
• New Visions Commentary: Longing for Fathers - June 1999
• New Visions Commentary: Education, Education, Education - June 1999
• Project 21 Release: Black Investing Up, Survey Says Blacks Consider Saving Their #1 Priority - June 1999
• National Policy Analysis #252: Be Thankful for Dads - June 1999
• New Visions Commentary: Public School Violence: An Adult Problem - June 1999
• New Visions Commentary: For Our Children's Future, Replace Affirmative Action - June 1999
• Project 21 Press Release: Break the Chains of Big Government: African-American Leadership Network Hopes Black Holiday of Juneteenth Will Promote Independence - June 1999
• Press Release: Proposed Campaign Finance Law Restricts Citizen Participation in the Electoral Process - June 1999
• National Policy Analysis #251: Defense 2.0: America's Military Badly Needs an Upgrade - June 1999
• National Policy Analysis #250: The Case for Private Environmental Stewardship - June 1999
• National Policy Analysis #249: Greater Intervention and Military Cutbacks are a Deadly Combination - June 1999
• National Policy Analysis #248: Federal Court's Decision to Strike Down Air Standards Will Save Lives - June 1999

May 1999

• Political Money Monitor #21 - May 28, 1999
• National Policy Analysis #247: Social Security Reform Would Give More Americans the Benefits of Stock Investing - May 1999
• New Visions Commentary: Blacks "Gored" By a Lie: Al Gore Sr., the GOP and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - May 1999
• New Visions Commentary: Authority by Eddie Huff - May 1999
• Internet Regulation Alert
• National Policy Analysis #246: Don't Believe the Internet Know-It-Alls - May 1999
• Legal Briefs #18 - May 21, 1999
• National Policy Analysis #245: Activists Take Aim at Corporate Involvement in Schools - May 1999
• New Visions Commentary: African-Americans Are Being Left Behind in the Information Age by Council Nedd - May 1999
• New Visions Commentary: All Hail the Common Man by Mike Ramey - May 1999
• National Policy Analysis #244: Latin America Go Home: Tobacco Policies in Foreign Countries Should Be Made by Foreign Countries, Not in U.S. Courts - May 1999
• National Policy Analysis #243: To All the Moms in America: Thanks - May 1999

April 1999

• Press Release: Economic Sanctions Against a Small U.S. Possession are Unwarranted, Says Group - April 1999
• Project 21 Release: Earth Day No Holiday for Black Americans - April 1999
• National Policy Analysis #242: Congress Considers Tax Limitation Constitutional Amendment - April 1999
• National Policy Analysis #241: Government Hinders Environmental Progress, Free Market Advances It - April 1999
• National Policy Analysis #240: Bill Would Fund Parks, Hockey Rinks to Rescue Oceans - April 1999
• National Policy Analysis #239: The Campaign Against Urban Sprawl: Declaring War on the American Dream - April 1999
• National Policy Analysis #238: Americans Are Better Off Than We Think - April 1999
• National Policy Analysis #237: Supreme Court and Congress Act Against Junk Science - April 1999
• New Visions Commentary: Court Shoots an Air Ball on NCAA Academic Standards - April 1999

March 1999

• Relief Report #69 - March 31, 1999
• Legal Briefs #17 - March 26, 1999
• Project 21 Release: Three R's Take a Back Seat to the Final Four: Suspension of NCAA Academic Standards Could Hurt Student Athletes - March 1999
• New Visions Commentary: The Real Racists - March 1999
• Political Money Monitor #20 - March 19, 1999
• Clarenont Institute Precepts: Conservatives Should Stay the Course, by Larry P. Arnn and Edwin Feulner (A Response to Paul Weyrich's "Letter to Conservatives") - March 1999
• National Policy Analysis #236: Latin American Nations Use U.S. Legal System for Profit - March 1999
• Project 21 Release: Black Organization Decries Unfair Maryland Taxation - March 1999
• Project 21 Release: African-American Group Critical of Judge's Ruling Against Academic Standards - March 1999
• New Visions Commentary: Social Security is Unfair to Black Americans - March 1999
• New Visions Commentary: Black History Month: A Retrospective - March 1999

February 1999

• National Policy Analysis #235: Behavior of World's Glaciers Fails to Prove Global Warming Theory - February 1999
• National Policy Analysis #234: New York Is Better Off Without Hillary Clinton - February 1999
• Project 21 Release: Texans Do the Right Thing in Racial Murder Case - February 1999
• National Policy Analysis #233: White House Tries to Buy Support for Greenhouse Gas Reductions - February 1999
• Press Release: American Land Should Be Controlled By Americans, Group Says - February 1999
• Project 21 Release: Statement by Project 21 at the Announcement of the Samaritan Project's "New American Compact" - February 1999
• Letter to Conservatives by Paul M. Weyrich - February 1999
• Project 21 Press Release: Black Leadership Network Opposes Civil Rights Nominee - February 1999
• Legal Briefs #16
• National Policy Analysis #232: Jury Tampering in Exxon Valdez Trial Pollutes America's System of Justice - February 1999
• National Policy Analysis #231: Clinton's Urban Sprawl Program Threatens Freedom and the Environment - February 1999
• New Visions Commentary: To Assure That the Republican Party is Open and Accessible to All - February 1999
• New Visions Commentary: Impeachment Infringes on My Family Time - February 1999
• New Visions Commentary: Why I Work on Martin's Birthday - February 1999

January 1999

• Scoop #208 - January 30, 1999
• Project 21 Press Release: Black Leadership Network Warns Black Community Against Supporting Clinton Defense; Clinton's Legal Maneuvers Could Turn Back the Clock on Civil Rights - January 1999
• Black Americans Would Benefit From Private Social Security Accounts - January 1999
• Black Leadership Network Applauds Supreme Court for Striking Down Sampling - January 1999
• Scoop #207 - January 22, 1999
• National Policy Analysis #230: Billion-Dollar Legal Paydays Hurt Ordinary Americans - January 1999
• National Policy Analysis #229: AOL May Put Speed Bump on the Information Superhighway - January 1999
• New Visions Commentary: Impeachment and the Rule of Law - January 1999
• National Policy Analysis #228: Global Warming Not Responsible for 1998's Unusual Weather - January 1999

 

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