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Save Ferris: How the 80s Favorite Truant Might Rank among America’s Most Wanted Today

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Principal Rooney never caught the misbehaving Ferris Bueller.  Had Matthew Broderick’s character been apprehended, at least in today’s overcriminalized society, Ferris might be very sorry he ever even thought about skipping school! While the 30th anniversary of the release of ...
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Montana: More Evidence Death Spiral Bearing Down on ObamaCare Exchanges

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More evidence that the ObamaCare exchanges are heading for a death spiral, this time from Montana: Health insurers selling individual policies on Montana’s Affordable Care Act marketplace say rate increases are likely next year after they suffered losses they attribute ...
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Someone Should Ask Sen. Sanders If Ben and Jerry’s Offers Too Many Choices of Ice Cream

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By my rough count, Ben and Jerry’s sells over fifty flavors of ice cream. Thus, it’s ironic that Ben and Jerry helped Senator Bernie Sanders kick off his campaign for president given the Senator’s recent remarks about having choices: You ...
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Krugman Wrong Again? Death Spiral Rears Its Head

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In a new National Policy Analysis, I examine whether predictions of an insurance “death spiral” on the ObamaCare exchanges have been proven wrong. The first sign of a death spiral is insurance companies requesting big premium increases, usually in the ...
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ObamaCare Exchange Imposes Cap on Specialty Drugs: What Could Go Wrong?

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A while back I predicted that insurers on the ObamaCare exchanges would be able to charge large co-pays for high-priced speciality drugs indefinitely, since only a small number of people take specialty drugs. Given their small numbers they would not ...
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Understanding Exactly Why “Freedom Is Not Free”

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As we head into the Memorial Day weekend, Project 21 member Charles Butler has a message for those who might not understand the meaning behind a holiday that many trivialize or merely consider the beginning of summer fun: People often ...
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What Do Corky the Orca and Hercules the Chimpanzee Have in Common?

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What do Corky the orca and Hercules the chimpanzee have in common? You’ll have to read my op-ed in today’s San Diego Union-Tribune. In the piece, I explain how current legal developments that will play out over the next weeks ...
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New York Times Columnist, Nanny State Foodie War-Monger

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Imagine that. A New York Times columnist is a self-proclaimed leader of the left-wing politicization of food. In Forbesbook review together with Julie Kelly, we explain how Mark Bittman is the foodie version of a war-monger. “There’s a war here,” the New ...
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The Impact of King v. Burwell

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If the Supreme Court rules in favor of the plaintiffs in King v. Burwell, what impact will it have on our health care system and our economy more broadly? Obviously, many people in the 37 states using the federal ObamaCare ...
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Je Suis Pamela Geller

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If Pamela Geller doesn’t stand up for free speech, who will? That’s a serious questions we need to be asking ourselves, as it is deadly obvious that one of the biggest threats to free speech comes from radical Islam.  Adherents ...
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