We now learn that voucher scholarships to give low-income families a chance to move their children from a bad public school to a decent private school are actually part of a vast right-wing conspiracy aimed at destroying public education.
H. Sterling Burnett, an environmental policy expert with the National Center for Policy Analysis, made the following statement today responding to the senseless arson attack by a group of environmental activists on a ski resort in Vail, Colorado.
After President Clinton and several members of Congress spent an entire year of virtually nonstop haranguing about the problems of managed care, Congress failed to pass any reform legislation.
The National Center for Policy Analysis and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas will host noted author and attorney, Clint Bolick.
There is good news in American education. The first piece of good news is that educational choice — i.e., giving parents more control over where their children attend school — is growing. And a recent Wisconsin Supreme Court decision in favor of school choice will only add to the momentum.
"The Energy Department has just confirmed what we already knew – implementation of the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty would be an economic disaster."
Despite decisions by two separate lower federal courts that sampling is illegal in conducting the 2000 Census, the Clinton administration has said it still plans to use sampling, even if the Supreme Court finally agrees that it's illegal.
The Clinton administration has committed to signing- but the Senate has yet to ratify – the Kyoto Treaty, which would impose legally binding, internationally enforceable limits on the production of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide (CO2). Supporters of the treaty believe that human-caused gases are causing environmentally disastrous global warming and that only immediate government action can avert catastrophe.
The United States Forest Service (USFS) is under fire from both fiscal conservatives and liberal environmentalists – two groups not often on the same side of issues. Fiscal conservatives decry the agency's spendthrift ways and money-losing programs. Environmentalists claim that its logging, mining and grazing programs damage the natural world. Both groups are correct.
The Honorable Sam Nunn will discuss "The Nuclear Threat in a Post-Soviet World" at the next National Center for Policy Analysis Hatton W. Sumners Distinguished Lecture Series luncheon.