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Good News for Rare Diseases: Big Profits

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For people who had a rare disease, defined as an ailment that strikes less than 200,000 Americans, there was often little hope, at least when it came to pharmaceuticals.  Drug companies didn’t see much profit in sinking resources into developing ...
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Winter Blues Can’t Be Blamed for Poor Economy — “About Those Jobs Numbers” For March 2015

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It’s not a good Friday for the Obama Administration.  A new report on jobless numbers, compiled by the federal government, came out today. The official unemployment rate is 5.5 percent.  That’s unchanged from last month, and that’s no cause for ...
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Celebrity Chef Tom Colicchio Divides Us Between Red Plates and Blue Plates

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In a National Review piece just out today, food writer Julie Kelly and I review the divisive activism of celebrity chef and MSNBC food correspondent Tom Colicchio. We write that, If you’re looking for practical dinner advice, look elsewhere. I’m confident that ...
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Steven Crowder on “Hannity” on Thursday Night

National Center media fellow Steven Crowder is scheduled to be a guest on the Thursday night edition of “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. Crowder will be participating in the free-wheeling “Great American Panel” during the second half of the ...
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Repealing the SGR Without Adding (Too Much) to the Deficit

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Today the House passed the “Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015” which will repeal the dreaded Sustainable Growth Rate. Unfortunately, the bill is not without its problems, not the least of which is it will cost $141 billion ...
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#StarbucksCoffeeIsMorallySuperior

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I walked to the corner coffee shop this morning (not Starbucks) and ordered a mocha. I then asked the clerk if she could write #RaceTogether on it. She replied that she didn’t know what I was talking about.  I smiled ...
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ObamaCare At Five: Lipstick on a Pig

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The Los Angeles Times editorialists today acknowledged some unpleasant reality about ObamaCare: “…surveys show little love for [ObamaCare]— a view that hasn’t shifted much over time.” But the Times can’t acknowledge that the law is unpopular without prefacing it with a distortion: ...
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Upset with Ringling Bros. for Taking Elephants out of the Circus? Blame PETA Instead

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In an op-ed for USA Today, I remind readers that radical animal rights activists are to blame for the loss of elephants in the Ringling Bros. circus. For all the families who have yet to take their children to a Ringling ...
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Loretta Lynch Race Card Tactics Rebuffed by Black Conservatives

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With Senate liberals refusing to allow a vote on legislation that would combat human trafficking because there are long-established protections against taxpayer funding of abortion included in it, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said political shenanigans will come at ...
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Hey Amy & David, You Should Adopt This Policy for NCPPR!

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Now this is an awesome employee incentive program! For a little more than four years, Eric Puryear with Puryear Law in Davenport, Iowa, has given his employees an extra $50 a month if they get their permits and carry a ...
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