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“Sicko” Presents False View of Cuba’s Health System

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Our Ryan Balis compares the reality of the Cuban health care system with the way it is portrayed in Michael Moore's movie, "Sicko." Says Ryan: "The film's underlying push is to, in Moore's words, 'ignite a fire for free, universal ...
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CAFE Standard Profiteering

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Timothy Carney, writing in the Examiner, on the corporations and lobbyists who are profiteering from Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards, and how much money some of their PACs give to House and Senate candidates: While ratcheting up CAFE won’t ...
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Climate Change is a Human Issue

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From Stella Dulanya and Peyton Knight, a report on the latest Senate global warming hearing: Yesterday, National Center Senior Fellow Thomas J. Borelli, Ph.D., testified on behalf of the Free Enterprise Action Fund before the U.S Senate Committee on Environment ...
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Barbara Boxer’s Mean Left Hook

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From husband David, some personal observations from the most recent hearing on global warming in Senator Barbara Boxer's committee: Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer said that she wanted to continue hearing from all sides of the global ...
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Veteran Taking on Chris Matthews is Project 21’s Kevin Martin

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David Almasi reports on the "veteran who took on Chris Matthews" after the Matthews-Edwards "civility" debate on Hardball earlier this week, noting that the black veteran in the video that has been circulating rather vigorously on talk radio and the ...
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The Senate’s Fuel Economy Standard: Incredibly Tough, Probably Impossible & Enormously Expensive

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Gary Witzenburg, writing on The Car Connection, explains the difficulties car manufacturers and consumers will have if Congress adopts into law the Senate Energy Bill's requirement that Corporate Everage Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards, reach 35 mpg by 2020 for ...
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City Destroys One Auto Business to Make Landscaping for Another

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Claiming it was trying to save 4,900 area jobs, the City of Toledo, Ohio evicted 83 homeowners and 16 businesses so that carmaker DaimlerChrysler could use their condemned land to expand its manufacturing plant. City Destroys One Auto Business to ...
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CAFE Standards Hypocrite

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was the prime sponsor of legislation adopted by the Senate Thursday that will require automakers, under Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards (CAFE), to drastically increase fuel economy to 35 mpg for cars and SUVs over ...
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The Global Warming Scam

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Melanie Phillips has a great post on, as she puts it, "the global warming scam." Her first sentence captures the zeitgeist surrounding the issue perfectly: You know how we're told sixty times per minute that man-made global warming is no ...
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In Detroit, All Eyes Are Fixed on Congress

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Writing on TownHall.com, our Eric Peters examines the many challenges faced and (so far) surmounted by the Big Three domestic automakers, GM, Chrysler and Ford, in light of what may be their biggest challenge yet: A Senate energy bill that ...
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