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Girl, 17, Faces Paralysis Thanks to Gov’t Health Care Waiting List

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A young lady in Ireland fears she may be paralyzed for life because Ireland's government-run health care service hasn't gotten around to putting her on the waiting list for the operation she needs -- and the waiting list is a ...
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D.C. Post Office Rationing Stamps (Still Excited About Government-Run Health Care?)

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One of my co-workers, who is managing a particularly large mailing, has just returned empty-handed from a quest to obtain 3,000 stamps from nearby post offices. Not even the official stamp store attached to the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum - ...
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Thin Skins Across the Pond

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There's been a bit of a fuss in Britain the last few days. It's keyed to Americans taking a look at the performance of their government-run health care system, the National Health Service, or NHS, and finding it wanting. It ...
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Is Obama Really Dropping the So-Called Public Option? Not a Chance

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The media is making much of the Obama Administration's hints that the President will no longer insist on a so-called "public option" in a health care bill he signs, but the idea of a government-started "co-op" alternative to private health ...
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Want a Baby? Thanks to Government Health Care, In Britain Becoming a Parent May Depend on Where You Live

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Everyone over a certain age knows what you have to do if you want to have a baby -- that is, except in Britain, where for some couples, the route to parenthood lies in changing their home address. That's because ...
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If You Don’t Care Enough About Policy to Know Better Than This, Why Didn’t You Go Into Another Line of Work?

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Picked up by the Detroit News, and then the Heritage Foundation, is this nearly-unbelievably ignorant statement by Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan: Climate change is very real. Global warming creates volatility and I feel it when I'm flying. The storms ...
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FreedomWorks is Apologizing to the Left

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Warning: You won't want to read this apology if you want to keep offensive words out of your life. E-mail any comments to the National Center for Public Policy Research at [email protected] | Subscribe to this blog's feed. | Follow ...
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Pelosi and Hoyer Declare War… On Themselves

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"Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American." I've always felt this is true. I just never thought Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer believed it, too. So when might we expect Pelosi and Hoyer to hand over their passports? In yesterday's ...
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Obama/DNC Health Care Operation Urges Congressional Visits

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Someone who lives in Virginia but who did not mention that his name could be used sent me and others the attached two-page flyer from President Obama's health care operation. (Open each photo in a new tab or window to ...
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Pelosi and Hoyer: “‘Un-American’ Attacks Can’t Derail Health Care Debate”

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Here's a link to the op-ed by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD). It's not very good, and not at all factual (haven't they read the bill?), but as its headline, helped along ...
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