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Kennedy Center Finally Gets Serious About Who’s Funny

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After years of not getting the joke, the Kennedy Center seems to be back in the funny business. The federally-mandated center for the performing arts on the Potomac River just announced that pioneering comedienne Carol Burnett will be the recipient ...
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Huffington Post: Ignore the Environmental Activists

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Sometimes, you have to take the battle to their turf. In a piece for the Huffington Post today, I make the case that while green groups seek to ban newer and better pesticides because they allegedly harm bees, the groups ...
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Health Care Odds & Ends: Single-Payer Edition

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If ObamaCare proves to be a complicated mess, you can bet that many on the left will be pushing for a single-payer health care system to replace it. Thus, this Odds & Ends is dedicated to the, ahem, wonders of ...
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Nice Try Democrats, But Oregonians Will Experience ‘Rate Shock’

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Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee have released a report refuting “rate shock,” the claim that the costs of premiums on the exchange will be much higher than they currently are in the individual market. The poster-boy of the ...
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Project 21’s Green on Chicago School Closures: Won’t Someone Think of the Children?

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In Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel just moved to close 49 government-run schools.  This will lead to thousands of city kids – mostly poor and minority students – being forced to relocate to new classrooms as early as this fall. The ...
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Exposed: Obama Administration’s Selective Law Enforcement

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In a piece for the Hoover Institution’s journal, Defining Ideas, Dr. Henry I. Miller and I highlight yet another abuse of power in the Obama Administration. As questions swirl around the IRS scandal, we expose the administration’s selective law enforcement. Why is ...
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2.2% Of Cancer Patients File For Bankruptcy

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Most people would be inclined to yawn at the above headline.  Thus, in reporting on this new study in Health Affairs, journalists wrote headlines such as “Cancer patients more than twice as likely to go bankrupt, study shows,” and “Cancer ...
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Who Says Conservatives Can’t Solve Public Health Problems?

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Just because conservatives think the government ought to stay out of our kitchens, doesn’t mean we don’t have positive ways to address obesity. We do. In an op-ed in Tuesday’s Washington Examiner, Dr. Henry I. Miller joins me in contrasting ...
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Black Conservatives Call Obama’s Morehouse Commencement Speech “Divisive,” More of the Blame Game

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As the commencement speaker at the all-male and historically black Morehouse College in Atlanta this past weekend, President Barack Obama used what should be a moment of celebration and honor to preach what can only be considered more of the ...
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The Health Care You Get Will Depend On Your Political Clout–Specialty Drug Edition

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A previous blog post pointed out that one of the drawbacks of any government-run health-care system is that the care you get will depend in part on how much political power you have.  This is particularly bad news for those ...
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