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Obesity: Nanny State Activism or Free Market Reforms?

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The most strident, vocal, and, unfortunately, influential activists think we need more nanny state solutions to obesity. My colleague, Dr. Henry I. Miller of the Hoover Institution and I think otherwise. In a piece for Hoover’s journal, Defining Ideas, we make ...
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Project 21’s Horace Cooper on Supreme Court’s Fisher Ruling

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Immediately after the U.S. Supreme Court announced it’s ruling in the case of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, Project 21 co-chairman Horace Cooper appeared on AriseTV to discuss the effect that the Court’s decision will have on race-based ...
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Look Who’s Complaining About Google Making a Donation to the Competitive Enterprise Institute

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I don't know why I was amazed, given their track record, but I was amazed to read on Steve Milloy's JunkScience.com (here and here) that green theologian Jim Ball and Penn State Professor Michael Mann are whining because Google made ...
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ObamaCare Is Reducing Projected Costs! Actual Costs, Not So Much…

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The Administration and its propaganda arms are touting a new analysis by Avalere Health that purports to show that premiums on the ObamaCare exchanges are quite cheaper than expected.  For example, here is ThinkProgress: A new analysis of health care premiums proposed under ...
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A Sordid Business

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There has long been a pejorative image of the typical Washington D.C. bureaucrat as a paper-pushing automaton just killing time until he can collect his pension. Events of the past few months – IRS targeting of Tea Party and conservative ...
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Oregon Health Exchange’s Coming Death Spiral

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From my article in the American Spectator today: Thus, the Oregon exchange will likely suffer the same fate as California’s, a death spiral. As the younger and healthier people realize that the price of insurance is more than the fine and ...
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GAO Says Exchanges Will Be Ready By…Um, Well, We’re Not Sure

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From a new report out today by the Government Accountability Office on how the federal and state ObamaCare exchanges are progressing: Much progress has been made, but much remains to be accomplished within a relatively short amount of time. [The Centers ...
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Just Because You Are Eligible For A Premium Subsidy Doesn’t Mean You Will Qualify–California Version

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As I noted in a blog post about the DC Health Exchange last week, just because you are eligible for a premiums subsidy on the exchange doesn’t mean you will get one. Today I look at the average premiums in ...
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Rats and Cities

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Cheryl Chumley has a nice piece in the Washington Times this afternoon about New York Mayor Michael "Nanny" Bloomberg's new idea to require millions of New York City residents to compost scrap food. Our Jeff Stier has pointed out that ...
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CBS Pittsburgh: Father’s Day Brings Mixed Feelings For One Dad

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Jessica Berardino of CBS Pittsburgh has a great Father's Day story, "Father's Day Brings Mixed Feelings For One Dad," featuring Project 21's Darryn "Dutch" Martin: PITTSBURGH (NewsRadio1020 KDKA) - As Father's Day approaches, many families are looking for a way ...
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