March 30, 2004
By Cheryl K. Chumley
On several fronts, a Congressional Research Service study on National Heritage Areas is misleading, misguided or outright mistaken – the latter by omission, as report authors fail to point out the absurdities of a key and common phrase used to identify private lands for public oversight.
Absent from the report [...]

By Tom DeWeese
Illegal immigration is about much more than fighting terrorism. The fact is, illegal Mexican’s are pouring across our borders and as a result, American tax-paid services like education and healthcare are being pushed to the brink of collapse.
It is an incomprehensible arrogance exercised by both Mexican [...]

Good afternoon, my name is Bonner Cohen. I am a senior fellow with the National Center for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C. and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Policy Center in Warrenton, Virginia. I want to thank Chairman Craig and the other members of the subcommittee for the opportunity [...]

How the Feds and Eco-Elitists Take Private Land for Fun and Profit
By Tom DeWeese
Those who have read George Orwell’s classic book, “Animal Farm” will be familiar with the phrase “everyone is equal, but [...]

CARA Act Provides Billions for Land Acquisition by States
“With attention focused on the primary elections, Americans remain unaware of legislation that is a direct attack on property rights, the keystone of the nation’s economy,” warns Tom DeWeese, president [...]

By Tom DeWeese
Amidst the renewed public concern over astonishing confessions by the FBI of the failure to reveal its use of incendiary weapons at Waco, a painful [...]

Animal Rights Agenda Threatens Human Rights
By Tom DeWeese
The protests against the presence of Peter Singer, known as the father of the Animal Rights Movement, teaching at Princeton [...]

How the Feds and Eco-Elitists Take Private Land for Fun and Profit
By Tom DeWeese
Those who have read George Orwell’s classic book, “Animal Farm” will be familiar with the phrase “everyone is [...]

by Joanna Waugh
In February 1997, President Clinton announced his American Heritage Rivers initiative — a program to pump federal money into urban riverfront projects. AHR [...]

Sir Isaac Newton once observed that “to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” Environmentalist’s reaction to this revelation: Duh? The poor environmentalists, they are so confused. Apparently they also never [...]