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Big Ideas Paid Off Big in Midterms — Did Obama Get the Message? (About Those Jobs Numbers for October)

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There was a modest improvement in the official unemployment numbers this morning.  But, as Project 21 member Derryck Green points out in his monthly “About Those Jobs Numbers” analysis of America’s jobless situation and the economy in general, there’s not ...
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What Conservatives Should Demand From The GOP On Health Care In The Next Two Years

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Conservatives should, as a matter of course, demand that Congressional Republicans get on with the business of repealing ObamaCare and replacing it with free market reforms in the next two years.  The question is, which strategy is best for achieving ...
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Insurance Cancellations Up To About 350,000. Thanks ObamaCare!

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Last year when ObamaCare was causing millions of people to lose their health insurance, President Obama issued an executive order letting insurers maintain those plans for another year.  Some lucky people had plans with insurers who decided to extend them ...
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Life Expectancy Is Great Measure Of A Health Care System–If Your Aim Is To Criticize The U.S.

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Chris Conover has a good post over at Forbes pointing out that life expectancy is a terrible measure of the effectiveness of a health care system: Stanford professor Victor Fuchs recently pointed out something that might surprise many critics of the U.S. health care ...
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Why The National Popular Vote Movement Is A Fool’s Errand–Part Two

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Note: This post was written by NCPPR’s research associate, Jonathan Hanen. The National Popular Vote compact is a far-left proposal to fundamentally transform the federal election of the US President by replacing our current system of 50 separate state elections ...
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Why The National Popular Vote Movement Is A Fool’s Errand–Part One

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Note: This post was written by NCPPR’s research associate, Jonathan Hanen. Last week, I wrote about the National Popular Vote (NPV) compact that seeks to reform the Presidential election by severely retrenching the current Electoral College system.  The NPV scheme ...
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What Obama Never Told You About ObamaCare Costs Could Hurt YOU Next Year

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In an opinion column that appeared in newspapers nationwide, Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute points out something about ObamaCare few realize: Next year, some [people who bought health insurance on an ObamaCare exchange] will face real sticker shock because ...
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You’ll Never Guess Who Just Spent Big Bucks to Help the Poor Get Good Lawyers

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I wrote in July that the huge public employee labor union AFSCME decided to stop working with the United Negro College Fund because the UNCF accepted a $25 million contribution from Koch Industries and the Charles Koch Foundation to fund ...
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Sharpton Sojourn to St. Louis to Push for Ferguson Indictment Lacks Reason, Promotes Tension

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In the four days leading up to the mid-term elections (coincidentally, of course), MSNBC host Al Sharpton plans to move his political grandstanding to Ferguson, Missouri. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sharpton will go to Ferguson “to pressure St ...
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What Is The National Popular Vote Movement?

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Note: This post was written by NCPPR’s research associate, Jonathan Hanen. Much attention in the conservative press has been paid to the issue of voter ID and ballot integrity laws in various states and the Justice Department’s attempts to halt ...
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