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More Comments from Project 21 Members About Ferguson Rioting

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This morning, Project 21 member Christopher Arps had this to say about the current situation in Ferguson, Missouri in the wake of the shooting of Michael Brown: Governor Nixon calls in the National Guard as the narrative falls apart that ...
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Raising Taxes on Certain Foods, Drinks Does Little to Fight Obesity

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In an op-ed in Saturday’s Houston Chronicle, I challenge the claims being used to justify a wave of soda taxes rolling across Latin America. I also explain how this could impact the potential for taxes in the United States. What ...
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Project 21’s Kevin Martin on the Violence in Ferguson, Missouri

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“There is no justification” for the nightly rioting erupting in Ferguson, Missouri after a police shooting there killed 18-year-old Michael Brown, said Kevin Martin, a member of the Project 21 black leadership network.  On the 8/13/14 edition of “The Rick ...
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The Missouri Legislature Should Override Governor Nixon’s E-Cigarette Veto

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Now that the comment period for the Food and Drug Administration’s proposed “deeming regulations” has closed, attention is shifting back to state and local legislative approaches to e-cigarettes. (See our comments to FDA.) While federal regulations ultimately have supremacy, state ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends: Leaving The ObamaCare Exchanges

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1. Down 44%? My former colleague at Investor’s Business Daily, Jed Graham, reports that new evidence on exchange enrollment “could require quite a come-down from those lofty claims” of 8 million enrollees in the ObamaCare exchanges. Aetna, the nation’s third-largest health ...
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Project 21’s Arps Dispels Myths About Missouri Riots

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Ferguson, Missouri has never been a place of simmering racial animus said Project 21 member Christopher Arps, a resident of the St. Louis area who is familiar with the town now in the national spotlight.  Speaking about the police shooting ...
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NCPPR’s Comments to the FDA Regarding E-Cigarette Regulations

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Today the National Center for Public Policy Research submitted comments to the Food and Drug Administration regarding e-cigarette regulations known as "Deeming Regulations." When the proposed rule was first published, I told the Associated Press that "the devil will be ...
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Why I’m Obsessed with Salon’s Obsession with Obsession

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I wonder at how often Salon.com uses certain words, such as "obsession" and "wingnut." Today I looked. 41,900 times for "obsession," 7,830 for "wingnut." Some of the things we wingnuts are "obsessed" by: the medical device tax, Dinesh D'Souza, exaggerating, ...
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Obama Foster Plan for Illegal Kids “Ripe for Abuse”

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Current plans to put many of the illegal immigrant children now being held by the government into foster care is a strategy that is “ripe for abuse.”  In an discussion with host Rick Amato on the One America News Network, ...
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Barney Frank: We Know What’s Best For You

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Last Friday the Huffington Post reported that former Democratic Congressman Barney Frank said the Obama Administration “lied to people” when it claimed that you could keep your health insurance plan if you liked it. While that got most of the ...
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