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Commencement Controversies Ignore Holder’s Harangue

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It’s graduation time, and that means controversy over college commencement speakers. On the right as well as the left, political protests led to the cancellations of speakers.  For example, Bush Administration secretary of state Condoleezza Rice bowed out of giving ...
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Why a Leading Climatologist Changed Her Mind About Climate Change

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Interested in the global warming/climate change/climate disruption debate, even slightly? If so, I recommend this short, very readable and informative interview of Dr. Judith Curry, climatologist and chairman of Georgia Tech's School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, by Tony Thomas ...
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New York’s Union College: Tuition $60,000 a Year, Uses Comedy Show as Science Source

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In the last few weeks I've had an op-ed in about three dozen newspapers across the country on the theme "top ten reasons why Congress should ignore advice to pass major legislation to combat climate change." It contains this paragraph: ...
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Stopping The ObamaCare Enrollment Report Makes Perfect Sense–Politically

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When it came out that the Dept. of Health and Human Services was, for at least the time being, discontinuing the monthly exchange enrollment reports, Cato’s Michael Cannon said “HHS Has Lost Their Minds.” There is a case to be ...
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‘Covert Rationing’ Is A Feature Of Single-Payer Health Care

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About a week ago Elizabeth Price Foley wrote a very nice piece entitled “VA Scandals Raise The Specter Of Healthcare Rationing” at the Daily Caller.  However, this one paragraph caught my eye: Rationing care can take many forms. It can ...
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A Study In Contrasts

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If Mexico had the same policies as the U.S., U.S. Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi wouldn't just have been released from prison, but given a path toward Mexican citizenship ...
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In Single-Payer Health Care, Quality Is NOT Job 1

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A few weeks ago, I came across this blog post at KevinMD about one physician’s experience working in Sweden’s single-payer system: There was, in my view, a culture of giving less than you were able to, a lack of urgency, ...
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Why Humana Said ‘No’

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In late April I attended the Humana shareholder meeting and asked, in part, “if the situation arises where Humana qualifies for taxpayer money through the risk corridor*, can we get your promise that you will reject it?” Humana’s CEO, Bruce ...
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ObamaCare Death Spiraling–The Young Enrollees Aren’t That Healthy

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New evidence further strengthens the case that the ObamaCare exchanges are headed for a death spiral. First, a new McKinsey report confirms that the young invincibles (or, at least the 18-29-year-old portion of them) are the least likely among all ...
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Segregation is Gone, but Schools Still Saddled with Special Interest Politics

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This coming Saturday, May 17, is the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court handing down its groundbreaking civil rights decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education.  That decision led to the desegregation of America’s government-run schools ...
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