Year: 2014

New York City Council Considers Pro-Cigarette Legislation

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I'll be visiting with members of the New York City Council today. They are now considering a bill to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes in New York City. My arguments against the proposal are laid out in an op-ed ...
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Observers, Press Kicked Out of United Nations Tobacco Conference in Moscow

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Observer Jeff Stier of National Center for Public Policy Research Says Secretive Conference Has Now Endorsed Policies that Will Lead to More Tobacco Smoking Washington, D.C. - Credentialed media and members of the public were kicked out of the United ...
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Nine “Diseases” CDC Considers More Important Than Ebola

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The best way to determine the priorities of any government agency is to look at how its budget is spent. Unfortunately, a detailed budget from the Centers for Disease Control isn’t available, so we must use other methods to determine ...
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In Three Segments, Watch a Black Legal Eagle Demolish Voter ID Critics

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Against vociferous critics and a skeptical host, Project 21’s Horace Cooper soundly and succinctly justified the need for polling place protections against voter fraud and dispatched the various alarmist attacks on this commonsense safeguard to protect American democracy. On Al ...
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Claims of Racist Ebola Care “Absurd” and “Hurtful”

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Project 21 member Council Nedd II was one of the first people in America to contract the H1NI swine flu virus in 2009.  His doctor sent him home, much like doctors originally turned away Thomas Eric Duncan, the first American ...
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Skip a Stone at Your Peril: EPA Ponders Pond and Puddle Regulations

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Through a low-profile attempt to rewrite existing regulation, the Environmental Protection Agency is seeking to become the “lord and master over land throughout the United States” by making a tiny but powerful change to the Clean Water Act that could ...
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Teaching Is Too Important To Be Left To Teachers

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The other evening I got into an twitter debate with twitter user “@albanianhobbit”—a woman who appears to be a teacher in Florida. I’ll have more comments on that next week. For now, I’d like to focus on her final comment ...
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What Does it Say of the Administration’s Priorities…

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...when, after one Ebola death and two infections in Dallas, the Administration still hasn't sent as many personnel to Dallas as it did to Ferguson following the shooting death of Michael Brown? ...
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Congratulations to Bethany Diamond on her Wedding Day

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Congratulations to Bethany Diamond, an invaluable member of the National Center for Public Policy Research staff, who is getting married this afternoon. I'm sure everyone at the National Center joins me in wishing her and her soon-to-be husband many years ...
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ObamaCare And Employer-Based Insurance: Costs Going Up, Quality Going Down

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On Wednesday, we took a look at the effect ObamaCare is having on employment.  It’s also worth examining the impact it is having on employer-based insurance. In their recent surveys, the Federal Reserve Banks of Dallas, New York and Philadelphia asked ...
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