Author: Amy Ridenour

Video of Project 21’s Mychal Massie on the O’Reilly Factor

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Here's a video of Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie (right), guest host Laura Ingraham and Mark Sawyer, Ph.D. of UCLA on Friday's Fox News O'Reilly Factor. They discussed President Obama's speech at the NAACP convention (including the President's curiously changed ...
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Outrage of the Day: Police Chief Calls Traffic Camera Monitoring “Cowardly”

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District of Columbia Police Chief Cathy Lanier called iPhone users who monitor the location of traffic cameras and speed traps "cowardly." Chief Lanier appears to have totally forgotten the official purpose of the traffic cameras and speed traps, which is ...
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Outrage of the Day: Congress Kills Jobs; Doesn’t Care

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Neither the left nor the right has reason to oppose reform of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, foolish legislation adopted last year with little thought to its ramifications, but Congress won't reform it, and Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) of ...
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Quote of the Day: Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) on Waxman-Markey from The Foundry

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Looks like cap-and-trade's potential to create yet another wealth-killing bubble is receiving at least some attention from Senate Democrats ...
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House Health Care “Reform” Bill Bans Sale of Private Health Insurance Policies

Investor's Business Daily is reporting that page 16 of the House Majority's health care bill bans new health insurance policies from being sold after the bill becomes law. The editorial says, in part: It didn't take long to run into ...
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Speaking of the Government Letting People Die…

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Speaking of the government letting people die, here's a story from Fox News last year about a 53-year-old cancer patient in Lane County, Oregon who wanted Oregon's public health plan to help him pay for chemotherapy. Nothing doing, said Oregon, ...
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CBO: No Savings in Democrats’ Health Care Bills

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The Congressional Budget Office said today taxpayers should expect no net savings if one of the health care plans being developed by House and Senate Democrats is adopted. In a nutshell, CBO Director Doug Elmendorf says any savings the plans ...
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Have a Disabled Child? Mom Getting Forgetful? Expect ObamaCare to Let Them Die

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Longtime conservative activist Foster Friess writes on his Campfire blog of Dr. Zeke Emanuel's plans to limit the health care expenses of "individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens..." In other words, if you are getting ...
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The Government’s Penalties for Success Are Running Into Its Subsidies for Failure

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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) says today in an article by Matt Cover for CNSNews.com that small businesses don't make $280,000 a year, so new health care tax hikes at that level won't harm small business. Oddly though -- ...
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The House Majority’s Health Plan, Pictured

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Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) and GOP members of Congress' Joint Economic Committee have released the following chart explaining how the House Majority's health care plan is structured. Click on the chart to enlarge it There's no copyright on this chart ...
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