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Britain’s Government Health System Rules $5 a Day Too Much for Drug to Battle Alzheimer’s

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I can't improve on Tom Blumer's post about Britain's National Health Service's ruling denying Aricept to people with mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's -- to save money. In a post last year, I discussed Britain's denial of the drug Herceptin -- a standard ...
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A Message for the Lady Who is Suing Don Imus

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Project 21's Dutch Martin has a few words for the young lady who is suing Don Imus: As a race, blacks endured hundreds of years of slavery and then legalized segregation, brutal racism and other forms of discrimination well into ...
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Rare Identical Quadruplets Born; Already Mistreated by Canada’s Socialist Medical System

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At the end of this sweet story about a Canadian woman, Mrs. Karen Jepp of Calgary, giving birth to a set of identical quadruplets (who were conceived without fertility drugs, the AP irrelevantly tells us) comes this: The Jepps drove ...
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Another Idiotic Environmentalist Opinion

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I don't usually use words like "idiotic," even when appropriate, but this gentleman's correspondence makes the word especially apt. Our position on invasive species legislation, as shown here, is that it "should be case-specific, weigh species' benefits against costs, and ...
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Kansas City Homicide: Media Reports U.S. Health System is to Blame

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The pro-socialized medicine lobbyists like to circulate U.S. health care system horror stories, such as this one they are circulating on email lists today (and which Daily Kos editorialized about here) about a man who allegedly murdered his wife, supposedly ...
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Seeing Right Through This Capitalism Nonsense*

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Drawn by the fact that he quoted the National Center's own Ryan Balis, I read this essay on the housing market by Al Pennam at Conservative Compendium. It's excellent. *Yes, the title of this post, taken from Al Pennam's article, ...
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Possibly Non-Existent Mouse Shatters Family’s Dreams

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A Wyoming family's dream to build an indoor horse-riding arena on their property is on hold because the area on which they want to build is designated critical habitat for Preble's Meadow Jumping Mouse - whose existence as a separate, ...
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Fuel Economy Hypocrisy

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Project 21 Fellow Deneen Borelli had an op-ed Thursday in the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel on proposals in Congress to increase Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards. Says Deneen, in part: ...Congress is grappling with raising Corporate Average Fuel Economy ...
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Washington Temperature Records

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From David Ridenour: The Washington Post reports today that "the temperature hit 102 degrees at Reagan National Airport, according to the National Weather Service, breaking by one degree the record for Aug. 8, set in 1930."The trouble is, this can't ...
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Maybe Bill Nelson Should Resign

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From husband David: Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) has said he plans to convene a hearing to look into why Everglades National Park was taken off the United Nations’ “List of World Heritage in Danger.”But why bother? The Senator has already ...
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