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Less is More for Both Smoking and Regulation

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As the EU considers a back-door ban on snus, the least harmful form of tobacco, a large study from Israel suggests that smokers who reduce their overall consumption of cigarettes do themselves some good. This is good news for those looking ...
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When Somebody Says It’s Not About The Money…

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With apologies to H.L. Mencken, when Obamacare supporters say it ain’t about the cha-ching or ba-bling, it’s about the cha-ching and ba-bling. That is the the lens through which one should view the video “Forget About the Price Tag,” the winner ...
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“About Those Jobs Numbers” — November

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Like Wonderland, life in the Obama economic recovery is getting curiouser and curiouser. Today’s federal jobless numbers indicated a change for the better, with the unemployment rate dropping three-tenths of a percentage point to 7.0 percent in November.  Yet there ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends

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MyCancellation Town Hall. The Independent Women’s Voice is kicking off a town-hall tour of its “My Cancellation” project this Saturday: My Cancellation town-hall tour will begin on Saturday, December 7th at 12:30pm at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois.  The panel ...
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Higher Costs, Less Choice… and Those Subsidies Might Not Help

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National Center policy analyst Dr. David Hogberg was featured in a Fox News Channel report on 12/2/13 about the latest bad news regarding ObamaCare. In a segment featured on “Special Report,” it was noted that President Obama’s promise of cheaper ...
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Project 21’s Swimp Warns Against False ObamaCare Prophets

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On the 12/3/13 edition of “The Wilkow Majority” on SiriusXM satellite radio, Project 21 member Stacy Swimp said that the social agenda embedded in ObamaCare “fl[ies] in the face of our Judeo-Christian values,” and pastors who use their pulpits to ...
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The Quality Of Exchange Plans Is Not Better

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Contrary to the claims of the President, the quality of exchange insurance is not necessarily better. Yesterday at a Ways and Means Committee hearing, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute testified: …it’s now well established ...
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NOAA’s Hurricane Prediction Failures “Undermine the Agency’s Credibility”

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NOAA — the federal weather forecasting agency — predicted between seven and 11 hurricanes for 2013, with three to six being major storms.  There were actually two weak hurricanes. National Center for Public Policy Research President David Ridenour recently told ...
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NOAA Should Get Out of the Hurricane Forecasting Business

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We once hired a chimp to make a point about forecasts. Saturday marked the official end of the 2013 Atlantic Hurricane Season and once again, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration proved itself utterly incapable of accurately forecasting hurricanes. It's ...
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ObamaCare Enrollment: The Mt. Everest Of Data Compilation

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The political left is always telling us that “health care is different.”  And seeing how hard it is for the Administration to tabulate enrollment numbers, one can’t help but think that the left might be right.  For example, here is ...
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