Category: Health

Horace Cooper on Obama Administration’s Non-Compromise on Birth Control Mandate

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National Center adjunct fellow Horace Cooper criticizes President Barack Obama’s attempt to claim a compromise has been made on his mandate that faith-based institutions alter their values and beliefs to comply with Obamacare contraception/abortifacient rules.  This interview was broadcast on ...
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Would Jesus Pay for Abortions?

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That question may seem sacrilegious to some, and for that I apologize, but it seems pertinent in light of the Obama Administration’s new rule, announced by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelious on January 20, that religious institutions providing social services must ...
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Green Activists Push Polystyrene Ban in California; We Push Back

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In an op-ed in the Orange County Register, Dr. Henry I. Miller of the Hoover Institution and I argue against a legislative effort to ban polystyrene foodservice containers throughout California. We write: The California Assembly could soon vote to make ...
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HHS Contraception Edict Likely to be Ruled Unconstitutional if Not Overturned by Congress, Legal Expert Says

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Even Jesus' Earthly Ministry Would Run Afoul of New HHS Rule, Says New National Center for Public Policy Research Paper Washington, D.C. - National Center for Public Policy Research Adjunct Fellow Horace Cooper is criticizing HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for ...
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FDA Tobacco Science Panel Headed in Wrong Direction

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The Food and Drug Administration’s Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC) has posted a draft summary of their report on dissolvable tobacco products.  The report is available for download here. The report was required by Congress and will be considered ...
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The Birth Control Mandate is Unconstitutional

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Introduction The American public is witnessing a fascinating, even historic, event: the Obama Administration's attempt to suppress basic expressions of religious faith. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)'s recent rulemaking mandating that church-sponsored and affiliated enterprises that provide ...
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Governor Patrick’s Harmful Tax Increase Proposal Ignores (or Distorts) Science

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Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick this week proposed further increasing taxes on a range of products to pay for an expansion of government funded health insurance. But, ironically, says the Washington-based National Center for Public Policy Research, the taxes could have ...
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Fighting Senseless Sin Taxes in Maryland: “There’s good reason for lower taxes on smokeless tobacco”

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My letter to the editor in The Baltimore Sun challenges the paper’s editorial support for a proposal to raise sin-taxes on smokeless tobacco to the same (nearly confiscatory) rate as on cigarettes, which are far more harmful. I write, Your ...
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When Bureaucrats Stymie Science

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In an article in Defining Ideas, a journal of the Hoover Institution, former senior Food and Drug Administration official (and Hoover Fellow) Dr. Henry I. Miller and I examine problems with how the government is making an important decision about ...
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Occupy Occupy D.C. to Promote Electric Car Through Hypnotic Suggestion

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Michelle Obama Announces Post-White House Plans The First Lady announced her post-White House plans this week: partnering with a liberal food policy group. Why can't she fight hunger without resorting to partisanship? More on Michelle Obama's plans after White House ...
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