National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) Senior Policy Analyst H. Sterling Burnett will take part in a program to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of the passage of Texas' concealed carry law, where he will discuss the failed predictions of the gun control advocates.
Marking the fifth anniversary of Texas' concealed carry law, a new report from the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) shows that Texans with concealed carry permits are far less likely to commit a serious crime than the average citizen.
There's a case of language abuse I'd like to draw your attention to, spotted mostly recently in an op-ed by Sylvia Hewlett in the New York Times. I'm not picking on Hewlett; her's was just the most recent place I caught the error.
If you're, say, 35 or older, I want you to think back to your early schooling. Did you have civics, or social studies, or some similar class? Sure, and so did most others your age or older.
A New York Times/CBS poll last week showed the majority of voters across the demographic spectrum prefer George W. Bush to Al Gore.
Antismoking forces are after the tobacco companies because they want to stop people from smoking and put the companies out of business.
If you want to read a knife-through-the-heart political analysis, one that should be read, if not by every American then at least by every New Yorker, get Peggy Noonan's "The Case Against Hillary Clinton."
The National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) unveiled a new online benefits calculator that will allow workers to determine their personal investment in the growing debate to reform Social Security.
The Supreme Court handed down an important ruling last week.
Some Americans faced with the rising costs of prescription drugs have begun looking longingly at Canada, where prescription drugs appear to cost less than in the United States. Some seniors are taking bus trips from New York and New England to Quebec to buy cheaper drugs.
I hope you gave last week's "equal pay day" the attention it deserved, which was none at all. It was the day on which women's advocacy groups propagated the myth that women earn only 76 cents for every dollar men earn and are barred from rising to positions of importance by a glass ceiling.
Coming amid a growing debate between Gov. Bush and Vice President Al Gore on Social Security reform, the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA SM) will unveil a new online Social Security benefits calculator Monday, May 22, at the National Press Club to help illustrate what Social Security reform really means to average Americans.
You could get seasick watching the DOW and the NASDAQ rise and plunge, but should that throw cold water on the idea of letting people put part of their Social Security payroll tax into personal, market retirement accounts?
Chile, which established the Western Hemisphere's first pay-as-you-go Social Security system in 1924, led the way into uncharted territory in 1981 when it became the first nation in the world to privatize Social Security.
Yesterday I talked about the way Elian Gonzalez was used by democratic party donors as a carnival exhibit. It's just one more thing to apologize to him for — along with, of course, sending him back to Cuba. This administration clearly won't apologize to him. So I will.
Wake up young workers of America! Our future is being mortgaged to grease the gears of government.
Well, Elian Gonzalez has attended his first democratic fundraiser. I thought after the Reno's raiders conclusion to the Elian Gonzalez standoff there wouldn't be any further way for the government to embarrass itself. But I guess I should no better.
As the gun control lobby rallies hundreds of women to Washington this weekend, National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) senior policy analyst and gun policy expert H. Sterling Burnett is available to offer needed balance to the story.
The National Center for Policy Analysis announced today that a new episode of the nationally syndicated program DebatesDebates, a series of programs that are sponsored by the NCPA, will be made available to stations starting today for airing this weekend.
Few people want to die and fewer still want to pay taxes. Put the two together and you have a tax that only a politician could love.
While Social Security is by far the most popular government program, it's in serious financial trouble.
Texas Gov. George W. Bush, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate, believes that what is needed is a gradual move away from pay-as-you-go financing of Social Security, and toward letting each worker at least partially fund his or her own future retirement instead.
Ronald Reagan summed up the government's view of the economy this way: if it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it.
The following letter was released today by John C. Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis, in response to inaccurate statements issued yesterday by the Gore campaign.