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| 1) | 6/11/04 | MADD Goes Too Far Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) began with the admirable goal of reducing drunk-driving traffic fatalities by educating the nation about the devastation caused by drunk drivers. For the first 15 years, this strategy paid off: MADD's public relations campaigns played a key role in changing the nation's attitude about drunk driving, resulting in a huge drop-off in drunk-driving deaths. I started MADD to deal with the issue of drunk driving."< |
| 2) | 9/19/03 | Our Week In Review If you've been reading the Center for Consumer Freedom's Daily Headlines this week… You read our newest ActivistCash profile on the anti-capitalist "culture jammers" who put out Adbusters magazine. You learned all about the environmental benefits of genetically enhanced crops. |
| 3) | 9/17/03 | MEMO To MADD's New Celebrity Board For example: A MADD billboard compares beer to heroin by depicting a beer bottle as if it were a syringe. Another MADD billboard shows the following words around empty glasses of alcohol: |
| 4) | 5/7/03 | MADD About New Jersey Pennsylvania's population of twelve million had more than twice as many alcohol-related fatalities: 663. America's 284,796,887 people suffered 17,448 alcohol-related fatalities in 2001. California's |
| 5) | 4/29/03 | Open Containers And Individual Rights Under the outrageously misleading headline, "Montana Legislature Balks at Outlawing Drunk Driving," the Associated Press reports that Montana lawmakers recently decided not to ban open liquor containers in cars and trucks. Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) sneered that "there's still perhaps some carry-over from people whose view is their individual ... |
| 6) | 4/17/03 | Drink Responsibly. Drive Responsibly. An article in today's New York Times begins: "In the latest salvo in the battle over liquor and beer advertising, a new commercial this week encourages people to feel free to have a drink before driving home. Predictably, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) President Wendy Hamilton accuses the ad of using "scare tactics." ... |
| 7) | 4/16/03 | A Taxing Problem PETA's goal is to eliminate all meat and dairy from the American diet. Similarly, Mothers Against Drunk Driving opposes the rollback of beer taxes -- calling, in fact, for a greater tax burden on adults who choose to imbibe -- precisely because |
| 8) | 4/10/03 | SPECIAL REPORT: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Neo-Prohibitionist Agenda The most famous organization in the neo-prohibitionist cabal is Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). "Don't forget beer, the king of drugs," the group says. RWJF gave CSPI $750,000 for its anti-alcohol project in 2001 alone. |
| 9) | 4/3/03 | A Trifecta Of Bogus Studies On Alcohol Marketing The Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY) joins the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) and Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) in the category of statistically-impaired, neo-prohibitionist organizations funded by the |
| 10) | 4/2/03 | Music To MADD's Ears In all likelihood, Michigan will soon succumb to Federal blackmail and bootstrapping by Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), and lower its legal blood alcohol concentration (BAC) for driving to . That leads Bay County Sheriff John E. Miller to remark |
| 11) | 12/10/02 | Targeting social drinkers is simply MADD “Groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving have decided to wage war on social drinkers,” writes Fox News columnist Radley Balko in the Los Angeles Times. Balco gives voice to a sentiment we’ve been airing for five years -- that MADD is now a $45 million bureaucracy that has outgrown its original purpose. Consider |
| 12) | 7/30/02 | Light-years from the honor roll These independent evaluations of stability and financial practices can make or break an organization’s public image (and its ability to keep raising additional funds). The Irving, TX-based Mothers Against Drunk Driving received a C-minus grade from the American Institute of Philanthropy (AIP) in its July 2002 Charity Rating Guide and Watchdog Report. But drunk-driving fatality rates declined by 57 percent in the 1990s, and now |
| 13) | 11/5/01 | Sensor Nonsense University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) researchers have developed a sensor that could alert police if even faint alcohol vapors are in the air in an automobile. "Simple vapors from fumes" would trip the alc-alarm, and a police cruiser with sirens blaring could be on the scene within minutes -- even if "the driver is taking a bunch of beer cans for recycling," the head... |
| 14) | 10/29/01 | Aiken's RIDiculous Comparison "Drunken drivers are the terrorists on the road. " That's what Aiken, founder of Remove Intoxicated Drivers (RID), said after the September 11 attacks on America. Aiken and RID, a sister organization of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), want to slash legal blood alcohol content (BAC) limits for driving to . |
| 15) | 10/29/01 | VIP: MADD's Very Inflated Paydays A New Mexico study finds that Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) "victim impact panels" just don't work. In fact, female DWI offenders who attended the so-called "VIP" sessions "were significantly at higher risk for having another DWI compared with women who had not gone to the victim impact panel," the study's lead researcher said... |
| 16) | 7/10/01 | Prohibitionist nannies fight for higher beer taxes At present, the federal tax is $18 per barrel; whenever you buy a beer, the sum of federal, state, and local taxes amount to 44% of the price you pay, according to industry analysts. But Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) says that lower taxes would result in more underage drinking and more traffic deaths, citing the decline in deaths since the extra tax was levied. MADD would actually like beer taxes to be higher than they... |
| 17) | 7/9/01 | A colossal mistake · Jewish World Review columnist Kathleen Parker opines: "Changing the national drinking age from 18 to 21 in 1984 - following a breathtakingly successful campaign by Candy Lightner, founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving - was a colossal mistake… If an 18-year-old is an adult, treat her as an adult. Changing the drinking age would give us a fresh opportunity to tackle our real problems - abusive drinking, ... |
| 18) | 5/30/01 | If These Are 'Success Stories', We'd Prefer Failure The American Prospect¸ a noted left-of-center magazine, exults this month in stories of "Where the Public Good Prevailed." Alongside worthwhile crusades like the lead-for-fluoride exchange in our drinking water, the authors deliver strong kudos to Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and the national anti-smoking movement as a whole (best represented by John Banzhaf and his group Action on Smoking and Health). This is ... |
| 19) | 4/11/01 | Strange Bedfellows The liquor industry announced yesterday that it will work with Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) to make it a crime punishable by jail for a 120-lb. woman to drive after drinking two glasses of wine over a two-hour period. The Century Council, which is funded entirely by the liquor industry, vowed to work with MADD to lower the drunk driving arrest threshold to . There was no indication from the Council if people should be arrested and jailed for ... |
| 20) | 3/15/01 | Get the Bar Manager! In a Washington Post article, a Maryland state lawmaker claimed she had to drink seven vodka screwdrivers before reaching a . 08% blood-alcohol content (BAC) at an event organized by the anti-alcohol folks at Mothers Against Drunk Driving. 26% BAC after consuming seven real vodka tonics in two hours (1.25 ounces of vodka @ 40% alcohol by volume). |
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