Category: Health

Appetite For Regulating

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The regulators just can’t help themselves.  They find a problem, pass regulations and only later do they bother to do the science to see if the regulation will be effective. The latest example comes today, with the report of yet ...
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Salon, Writing About Reagan, Is Wrong About Limbaugh

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An unknown number of leftie bloggers and now Gene Lyons of Salon have been chuckling mightily that Rush Limbaugh supposedly got caught by a leftie caller named Mike Stark not knowing that his hero, Ronald Reagan, had raised Social Security ...
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Jeff Stier on Jim Bohannon Tonight

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National Center senior fellow Jeff Stier will be spending an entire hour in the studio tonight with nationally-syndicated talk radio host Jim Bohannon.  The two will talk about President Barack Obama’s claim that he has instructed the government to eliminate ...
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Revealed: How a Florida Senator Could Vote to Harm Seniors

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What appears to be an alarming example of Congressional malfeasance was unearthed late yesterday by David Freddoso of the Washington Examiner and ABC's "Top Line." Apparently, despite a year of intensive debate over enactment of ObamaCare legislation, followed by nearly ...
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The EPA’s Latest Unscientific Power Grab, by Jeff Stier

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Why would the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) overturn its own scientists and decide to regulate trace levels of perchlorate in drinking water after it recently decided it didn't need to be regulated?1 Earlier this month, the EPA announced it will ...
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Project 21’s Kevin Martin on Latest Obamacare Defeat in Court

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Another major court ruling against the Obamacare takeover of American health care was announced today. Project 21 member Kevin Martin had this to say about this newest blow to Obamacare: U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson ruled that Congress exceeded its ...
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Cherylyn Harley LeBon of Project 21 Talks Obamacare with Jim Bohannon

Project 21 member Cherylyn Harley LeBon talks with syndicated talk radio host Jim Bohannon about the recent repeal of Obamacare in the U.S. House of Representatives and the need for more productive free market-based health care improvements such as tort ...
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Jeff Stier on Government/Special Interest Attacks on Tobacco Harm-Reduction Methods

Jeff Stier of the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Risk Analysis Division talks with WIBA-Madison, WI talk radio host Vicki McKenna about unproductive criticism of “e-cigarettes” and other possibly less harmful alternatives to cigarettes. This segment aired 1/18/11 ...
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A History of Bans: My Book Review in Reason

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My review of Christopher Snowdon’s latest book, The Art of Suppression: Pleasure, Panic and Prohibition Since 1800 appears in the January, 2012 print edition of Reason. Modern-Day Prohibition The eternal temptation to ban things that give people pleasure Jeff Stier ...
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Black Conservatives React to House Repeal of ObamaCare

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Washington, D.C. – With the U.S. House of Representatives voting today to completely repeal last year's legislation to begin a federal government takeover of the nation's health care apparatus, members of the Project 21 black leadership network are reacting: Bishop ...
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