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Raising the Minimum Wage Kills Jobs, But Congress Doesn’t Appear to Care

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As House Democrats pledge to raise the federally-mandated minimum wage by 40 percent, our Ryan Balis asks: "Do Minimum Wage Increases Benefit Workers and the Economy?" An excerpt: ...the job-killing effect of higher mandatory minimum wages is well documented. As ...
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Making Health Care More Affordable

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Writing in National Review, our David Hogberg takes a look at the chance the incoming Congress will succeed in fulfilling its pledge to "make health care more affordable." ...
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Will Congress Make Health Insurance More Expensive?

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The National Center has a new paper out examining the wisdom of a Congressional proposal to let Medicare "negotiate" drug prices. As our press release describes it: Congressional Liberals' Plans For Medicare Will Make Private Health Insurance More ExpensiveLetting Medicare ...
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Mark Tapscott: Illegal Leaks Endangering Lives

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Mark Tapscott hits the nail on the head in regards to recent high-profile national security-related leaks to news organizations: This time around there is no question about serious crimes having been committed and only the most blindly obstinate professor of ...
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Serving Justice

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Wouldn't be nice if the "nearly a dozen current and former officials" who supposedly talked with the New York Times about classified wiretapping operations simply turned themselves in? ...
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“Remarkable” Expert Testimony to be Archived by Medical Association

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The American Academy of Emergency Medicine, concerned about "physicians who seem willing to make any statement, no matter how outrageous, in support of a malpractice claim [in order to] profit handsomely," has created a new archive of remarkable testimony. The ...
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Hard to Argue

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The COB blog says of the U.N.: "In the history of man, a more useless organization has never been chartered." ...
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Galen Institute: Europe Reduces Commitment to Medical Research

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"Just a decade ago, more than two-thirds of all drug research was conducted in Europe. Now, 60% is conducted in the United States," says Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute, who blames deliberate government policies in nations that have adopted ...
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Executed at Vorkuta

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Jon Basil Utley has a striking story (PDF file) in The Freeman, available on the Foundation for Economic Education website. The story begins: My father, Arcadi Berdichevsky, was executed at Vorkuta on the Arctic Circle in the Soviet Union on ...
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John Dingell’s Plans

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The incoming chairman of the House House Energy and Commerce Committee, John Dingell, is interviewed by Amanda Griscom Little for the environmentalist magazine Grist. Worth reading if you care about climate policy. (For what it is worth, I didn't disagree ...
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