CPAC 2004 Registration
A quick reminder for conservatives that the next Conservative Political Action Conference is just seven weeks away and attendees can now register in advance. CPAC-the country's premier gathering of conservative activists and leaders will be held for the 31st time Thursday-Saturday January 22-January 24, 2004, at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Va.
Retiring Sen. Zell Miller (D.-Ga.), author of A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat, is scheduled to deliver a major address at the three-day event. (For a review of Miller's book see "Conservative and Democrat")
"Despite his party affiliation, Sen. Miller has proven to be a friend of limited government and the Constitution. We are honored to have him join us at the 31st Annual CPAC," said American Conservative Union (ACU) Chairman David A. Keene. CPAC is a project of the ACU Foundation, in association with Young America's Foundation and HUMAN EVENTS. The conference will again be co-sponsored by over 70 of the nation's leading conservative organizations.
For continued updates on the program or to register online, visit www.cpac.org.
Hotel reservations can be made at the Crystal Gateway Marriott, 1700 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, Va., 703-920-3230.
FAIR Report: States Defy Immigration Enforcement
Despite the federal government's increased push to tie immigration enforcement to national security, states continue to adopt policies that flout federal immigration law.
So says a recent Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) report, "States Undermining Immigration Enforcement," by John L. Martin, Ira Mehlman, and Alison Green. The report finds that a number of jurisdictions have maintained and adopted policies designed to shield people who are violating federal immigration laws.
Among the state actions described in the report:
Unless the White House exerts much stronger leadership, say the authors, the state patchwork of inconsistent policies will continue to be a primary avenue used by foreign terrorists to exploit the system and enter the country.
Information about this report is available at the FAIR website: www.fairus.org.
National Journalism Center Training Future Journalists
The National Journalism Center (NJC) is accepting applications for its spring session which begins in early February 2004. Founded in 1977, the NJC merged with Young America's Foundation in 2001. Its mission is to correct imbalances in the nation's media by training students in classical journalism within the context of a free society.
NJC students hear numerous speakers from the world of public policy and the media, and they intern at prominent media institutions to put what they learn to use in an active setting.
The NJC works to place its graduates in the media. Award-winning alumni have been hired by:
TV networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX News, CNN, CNBC, and MSNBC.
Magazines: Time, Newsweek, Esquire, New Yorker, HUMAN EVENTS, National Geographic, Reader's Digest and Forbes.
Newspapers: Washington Post, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, and Investor's Business Daily.
Wire Services: Associated Press, UPI, Reuters, Knight-Ridder, Copley, and Bloomberg.
The NJC's Board of Governors is chaired by Thomas L.Phillips, Chairman of Phillips International and Eagle Publishing (HUMAN EVENTS, Regnery Publishing and the Conservative Book Club).
The National Journalism Center's website, TheReporter.us, features news and commentary by its many graduates. Updated daily, it is rapidly becoming an alternate source for Americans who demand a fresh take on events.
Included among NJC alumni are: John Fund, editorial writer for the Wall Street JournalBioevolution: How Biotechnology Is Changing Our World (Encounter) and The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS (Regnery), Malcolm Gladwell, author and staff writer for The New Yorker, Timothy P. Carney, staff writer for the Evans-Novak Political Report, HUMAN EVENTS Associate Editor Joseph D'Agostino and Managing Editor Kevin Lamb.
If you want to be a journalist, the National Journalism Center offers a streamlined course in the basics of journalism and can assign you to prominent Washington journalists as an intern. You'll learn the trade secrets of investigative reporters who work in and around the Nation's Capital.
And it's free! The only cost to you is transportation to and from Washington, D.C., and temporary housing-always available to the resourceful. The program, which for a quarter century has placed hundreds of trainees into great journalism jobs, conducts 12-week programs in the fall, spring, and summer. Apply online at nationaljournalismcenter.org.
CATO Hosts Global Warming Conference
The CATO Institute will host a conference on "Global Warming: The State of the Debate" on Friday, December 12, 10:00a.m.-5:15p.m. at the F. A. Hayek auditorium, the CATO Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C.
Global climate change continues to be a flashpoint in American politics. Although the Kyoto Protocol may be a dead letter at the moment, various initiatives to curb domestic greenhouse gas emissions regularly pop up at both the state and federal level. Democratic presidential candidates, meanwhile, uniformly promise to revive the Kyoto agreement in their prospective administrations.
This day-long Cato conference is intended to help remedy that by fairly summarizing what is known about the science and economics surrounding greenhouse gas concentrations and abatement. Moreover, it tackles squarely what is perhaps the most relevant policy issue at the moment-the potential costs and benefits involved in dealing with scientific uncertainty.
Panelists for the global warming conference include some of the leading scientists in the field of atmospheric and climatology research and will address the state of the science, costs and benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and how to handle uncertainty.
The conference is free and will feature a late-afternoon reception.
For more information on registration, contact Krystal Brand (by noon December 11) at 202-789-5229, fax: 202-371-0841 or email: [email protected].
