Every five years the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) publishes a massive three-volume report on global climate change. The first volume of the newest publication, the Third Assessment Report, reviews the immense body of climate change literature and attempts to present a consensus view of the current understanding of the scientific basis of climate change.
We've all heard of the generation gap… but generational warfare? Baby boomers will begin to retire soon and begin collecting Social Security and health care benefits rather than paying taxes into the system. If we don't do something now to reform Social Security…that could set off a conflict over resources that could result in generational warfare.
For all the attention paid to Social Security, it is not the elderly entitlement program in most trouble; health care is. Government health care spending for the elderly will actually surpass spending on Social Security by 2060.
The state of wildlife on the African continent today resembles that of wildlife in the United States in the late 19th century. African wildlife populations are declining as habitat is converted to farming, wildlife is competing with or preying on domestic livestock and wildlife pursuit is increasingly commercialized. But first in the United States and now in Africa, hunters have led the charge to conserve wildlife.
Tax revenues funding Social Security and Medicare entitlements are currently in surplus, but by the time the first baby boomers retire…both programs will pay out more in benefits than they collect. In a policy report issued today, N-C-P-A president John C. Goodman and policy analyst, Matt Moore, show that Social Security is not our biggest problem…Medicare is.
While you can argue that PRAs are not perfect, there is no question they are better than any other alternative for saving Social Security.
If the terrorist attack on the U.S. wasn't enough to slow air traffic to a crawl, the backlash that followed has left us with interminably long lines and patience-killing security countermeasures. Now the Democrats want government to solve the problem If the proof of the pudding is in the eating, as the British say, then the answer to safer air travel can be found in Europe.
Osama bin Laden states the case for hatred of America and capitalism as a given. I'm Pete du Pont with the National Center for Policy Analysis. bin Laden and his Al Qaeda minions think the case against the U.S. is obvious-we back the state of Israel…therefore, we must be the enemy of all Arabs.
The use of racial profiling in recent years has been controversial with ethnic and civil rights groups…especially African Americans, who felt profiling singled them out for suspicion. Nonetheless, some recent polls in the Wall Street Journal show that Blacks and even Arab-Americans are now more willing to support racial profiling than the general U.S. population.
The protesters actually have it right; there is a problem with global capitalism that leads to poverty and anti-capitalist sentiment in the Third World. But the problem is too little globalization, not too much.
Are the dot-coms gone for good? Is the "new" economy suddenly dated, despite the surging popularity of the Internet?
During times of war and worldwide calamity, governments are forced to reassess their security needs and new laws and regulations are enacted, usually in emergency legislative sessions.
There's a wonderful little book out from the Media Research Center edited by Stephen Moore and Richard Noyes. I hope you'll read it, but mainly I hope the real audience it's meant for will get a copy.
The reasons managed care has not worked as a national policy in addressing the concerns of cost, access, quality and patient satisfaction are the same reasons Medical Savings Accounts and other consumer-driven programs are attractive.
President Bush's first legislative proposal was his education bill. Alas, the education establishment gutted it. Vouchers to save poor kids from bad schools are gone. Annual testing's been diluted.
Americans' intake of prescription and non-prescription drugs has now surpassed $250 billion annually, reflecting a steady increase to new record levels each year. Click here to read the entire commentary.