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Should Ecig Ads Be Banned?

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Activist groups want the government to ban advertisements for E-cigarettes. A spot for e-cigarette brand NJOY, which aired in some markets during the Super Bowl, has sparked controversy. In an op-ed in today’s New York Post, the Heartland Institute’s Greg ...
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On DOJ’s Investigation of the IRS: The Fix is In, and Here’s How We Know

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Attorney General Eric Holder says that the Department of Justice's investigation into alleged wrongdoing at the IRS isn't over and that the leaks that no charges will be brought are false, because the investigation is on-going. Now we have the ...
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Project 21’s Kevin Martin Slams Obama O’Reilly Interview “Filibuster”

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Before Denver and Seattle took to the gridiron, President Obama and Fox News Channel host Bill O’Reilly scrapped it up during a pre-game interview that the President has traditionally offered to the network airing the big game.  That game was ...
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The Faces of ObamaCare: Watch as Employees at a Pennsylvania Company Learn about Their New Health Plan Under ObamaCare

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Pittsburgh's WTAE-TV went inside a car repair business in McKeesport, PA to watch and record as employees learned the details of their new health plan under ObamaCare. It's really very affecting; it seemed to me that some of the employees ...
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The ObamaCare ‘Risk Corridors’ Are STILL An Insurance Company Bailout

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Two more noted writers, both in Forbes and both conservatives, have argued that the “risk corridors” in ObamaCare are not an insurance company “bailout.”  (If you don’t know what a risk corridor is, go here and scroll to the end.) ...
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Success Stories Of ObamaCare Exchange Show Why It Will Fail

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The Health Care Blog at the Health and Human Services website routinely recounts the experiences of people signing up for health insurance on the ObamaCare exchanges. But what HHS often considers a “success story” is in fact an example of ...
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Minimum Wage Could Cause Maximum Pain for America’s Most At-Risk

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A minimum wage increase, a earning rate that affects just 1.1 percent of Americans workers over the age of 25, is one of the key 2014 policy priorities for President Barack Obama and his supporters. It’s a small goal that ...
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Will Iowa Be Next To Ban Use of E-cigarettes in Public Places?

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Iowa’s Attorney General wants his state to ban the use of E-cigarettes wherever cigarette smoking is banned. In a guest column on the op-ed page of today’s Des Moines Register, I explain why doing so would be a terrible idea ...
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More Black Conservative Criticism of Obama’s State of the Union Address

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Last night, just minutes after the end of the State of the Union, ten members of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network issued blistering rebuttals to President Barack Obama’s angry rhetoric and sweeping promises. Today, some of those ...
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Random Thoughts On SOTU

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Read it here this morning. 2. Maybe the Hatch-Burr-Coburn health plan did do some good. I don’t think much of their health care plan for reasons I list here.  But, perhaps by releasing it a day before SOTU, it prevented ...
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