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It Should Be Repealed Anyway

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A report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration found that ObamaCare’s medical device tax generated about $300 million less than what was expected.  The IRS expected that it would take in $1.2 billion from the tax in the first half of ...
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Government Health Care Rewards Failure

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Today I have a new National Policy Analysis up entitled “Government Health Care Rewards Failure.”  A version has also been published at Rare. In it I examine recent events at the ObamaCare exchanges in Maryland and Massachusetts and the waiting ...
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More Ferguson Media from Project 21 Members

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There are more television appearances to share from members of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network talking about the civil unrest and legal proceedings in Ferguson, Missouri. Project 21 co-chairman Horace Cooper said that too many politicians and ...
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Slate’s Emily Bazelon Misleads In Order To Hype Racism

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One of the unstated assumptions among leftist intellectuals is that absent racism, different racial groups would have roughly equal outcomes.  If statistics show that different racial groups have different outcomes, then racism must be afoot. That was the assumpton that ...
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Nanny State Sodium Suggestions Could Actually Harm People

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Consumer rejection of allegedly healthier French fries at Burger King and new medical findings that a low sodium diet may be as unhealthy as high sodium diet created what Sun News host Brian Lilley called a “bad week for food ...
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Project 21’s Black Conservatives Discuss Ferguson Riots on TV

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With investigations underway and riots continuing in Ferguson, Missouri without an apparent end in sight, members of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network are all over television — providing commentary for a media that is fascinated with the ...
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More Comments from Project 21 Members About Ferguson Rioting

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This morning, Project 21 member Christopher Arps had this to say about the current situation in Ferguson, Missouri in the wake of the shooting of Michael Brown: Governor Nixon calls in the National Guard as the narrative falls apart that ...
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Raising Taxes on Certain Foods, Drinks Does Little to Fight Obesity

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In an op-ed in Saturday’s Houston Chronicle, I challenge the claims being used to justify a wave of soda taxes rolling across Latin America. I also explain how this could impact the potential for taxes in the United States. What ...
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Project 21’s Kevin Martin on the Violence in Ferguson, Missouri

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“There is no justification” for the nightly rioting erupting in Ferguson, Missouri after a police shooting there killed 18-year-old Michael Brown, said Kevin Martin, a member of the Project 21 black leadership network.  On the 8/13/14 edition of “The Rick ...
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The Missouri Legislature Should Override Governor Nixon’s E-Cigarette Veto

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Now that the comment period for the Food and Drug Administration’s proposed “deeming regulations” has closed, attention is shifting back to state and local legislative approaches to e-cigarettes. (See our comments to FDA.) While federal regulations ultimately have supremacy, state ...
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