by Tom DeWeese

Not long ago, I joked that someday an American family might find, to their horror, that the family next door was forced to sell their house to a herd of buffalo under the fair housing statutes of the Civil Rights [...]

There is certainly no shortage of big thinkers down at the ol’ Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). While the agency attempts to regulate everything on Earth from water [...]

Many who advocate American withdrawal from the United Nations believe theirs is a lost cause. They see little or no movement in the Congress or in American attitudes to indicate a willingness to expel the UN. Can [...]

You rarely hear of it. No elected official raises an eyebrow. The media makes no mention. But power is slowly slipping away from your elected representatives. In much the same way Mao Tse-tung had [...]

“When are Republican Congressmen going to wake up to the realization that the Environmental Protection Agency is perilously close to being a subversive entity within our government?” asks Tom DeWeese, president of the American Policy Center. The [...]

By Stan Watson, Ph.D.
Director of Research, Alabama Family Alliance
It is estimated that substantiated reports of child abuse and neglect only involve approximately 1.5 percent of all children. Actual child deaths as a result of abuse are a small [...]

March 28, 2003
By Tom DeWeese
The world is in chaos and, quite frankly, it’s the United Nations’ fault. It gives validity to zealots and petty bigots. It helps to keep tyrannical dictators in power. It provides money and aid to international terrorists. And it sets itself up as the international economic and environmental standard to which [...]

By Tom DeWeese
March 20, 2003
Choosing a time when the attention of all Americans is on our conflict with Iraq, the Senate is poised to vote on a bill that would unleash a major attack on private property rights. It would empower environmental groups and government agencies to use taxpayer funds to purchase land.
The bill, S. [...]

Read before the Subcommittee on National Parks of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, concerning oversight, designation and management of National Heritage Areas and the impact of National Heritage Areas on private lands and communities.
March 13, 2003
Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today [...]

March 13, 2003
Washington, DC ~ “If the Heritage Areas program is allowed to proliferate, experience shows that it will become not only a funding albatross, as more and more interest groups gather around the federal trough, but also a program that quashes property rights and local economies through restrictive federal zoning practices.”
Testifying today before the [...]