Author: Amy Ridenour

A National Health Service: Costly, Yes, and Powerful, Too

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Professor Jacobson over at the Legal Insurrection blog has a good post up on the cost of the British National Health Service, based on a recent article from the London Times. Something the good professor does not address, at least ...
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Does Charlie Rangel Think We Opposed Government-Run Health Care When Hillary Clinton Proposed it Because She’s White?

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I notice the White House was quick to distance itself from New York Governor David Paterson when Paterson claimed racism motivates people who disagree with President Obama's political philosophy. But now that the powerful chairman of the U.S. House Ways ...
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Don’t Let Health Care ‘Reform’ Rain on Your Picnic

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The National Association of Manufacturers has a released a new video using a picnic analogy to succinctly illustrate ways we can improve our health care system -- and warning us of the dangers of the so-called "public option." E-mail any ...
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The Ad ABC Won’t Run

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Here's the health care ad ABC refuses to run. Wondering who ABC News does accept commercials from? Go to our ABC World News Sponsors page to find out. Hat tip: Bridgett Wagner E-mail any comments to the National Center for ...
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Why Is the White House Doing This?

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According to its website, the National Legal and Policy Center"has uncovered a plan by the White House New Media operation to hire a technology vendor to conduct a massive, secret effort to harvest personal information on millions of Americans from ...
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Postage Stamp Rationing Followup

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If you followed with interest our articles from August (here and here) about how the U.S. Postal Service has been rationing stamps, you may want to check out Meredith Jessup's followup to it on the TownHall.com blog, and the comments ...
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A Funny Quote

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David Ridenour shares his appreciation of a recent Mark Steyn column: This comes from Mark Steyn in the latest edition of Hillsdale's Imprimis. Steyn describes how, in order to ensure that Muslims aren't offended, local British councils are banning workers ...
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Ron Bailey on CWRA

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Ron Bailey of Reason magazine takes a look at Congress' flawed Clean Water Restoration Act, quoting from this National Center paper by Peyton Knight ...
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Unlike Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, I Would Save the Babies and Children First

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Betsy McCaughey has an op-ed on Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel in Thursday's Wall Street Journal. I left the following comment on the Journal website: I found it impossible to read Dr. Emanuel's Lancet article (Jan 2009) without getting a chill. He ...
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What’s Happening Now

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Media: Obama's a neologist; Bush was just dumb. Jokes to play on the President. Where does YOUR state rank? (H/T Coyote Blog.) Examiner: If Americans were getting an average of 20 miles to the gallon before Cash for Clunkers, they ...
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