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Life Expectancy Is Great Measure Of A Health Care System–If Your Aim Is To Criticize The U.S.

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Chris Conover has a good post over at Forbes pointing out that life expectancy is a terrible measure of the effectiveness of a health care system: Stanford professor Victor Fuchs recently pointed out something that might surprise many critics of the U.S. health care ...
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Why The National Popular Vote Movement Is A Fool’s Errand–Part Two

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Note: This post was written by NCPPR’s research associate, Jonathan Hanen. The National Popular Vote compact is a far-left proposal to fundamentally transform the federal election of the US President by replacing our current system of 50 separate state elections ...
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Why The National Popular Vote Movement Is A Fool’s Errand–Part One

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Note: This post was written by NCPPR’s research associate, Jonathan Hanen. Last week, I wrote about the National Popular Vote (NPV) compact that seeks to reform the Presidential election by severely retrenching the current Electoral College system.  The NPV scheme ...
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What Obama Never Told You About ObamaCare Costs Could Hurt YOU Next Year

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In an opinion column that appeared in newspapers nationwide, Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute points out something about ObamaCare few realize: Next year, some [people who bought health insurance on an ObamaCare exchange] will face real sticker shock because ...
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You’ll Never Guess Who Just Spent Big Bucks to Help the Poor Get Good Lawyers

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I wrote in July that the huge public employee labor union AFSCME decided to stop working with the United Negro College Fund because the UNCF accepted a $25 million contribution from Koch Industries and the Charles Koch Foundation to fund ...
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Sharpton Sojourn to St. Louis to Push for Ferguson Indictment Lacks Reason, Promotes Tension

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In the four days leading up to the mid-term elections (coincidentally, of course), MSNBC host Al Sharpton plans to move his political grandstanding to Ferguson, Missouri. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sharpton will go to Ferguson “to pressure St ...
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What Is The National Popular Vote Movement?

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Note: This post was written by NCPPR’s research associate, Jonathan Hanen. Much attention in the conservative press has been paid to the issue of voter ID and ballot integrity laws in various states and the Justice Department’s attempts to halt ...
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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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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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