Surprise! ObamaCare Medicaid Expansion Leads to Increase in ER Visits

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That title of this blog post, of course, is intended to be sarcasm.  That an expansion of Medicaid would lead to a rise in emergency room (ER) visits is about as unexpected as looking to the east sometime early in ...
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Goal: Reduce Harm from Tobacco Use; Jeff Stier to Speak at Smoke-Free Alternatives Trade Association 2015 Annual Conference

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Washington, D.C. - Jeff Stier, senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research, will give a talk on "Making Policy Decisions" at the Smoke-Free Alternatives Trade Association's (SFATA) 2015 annual conference, "Revolution to Evolution: Next Steps for the ...
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A Woman on the $20 Bill? Make Her an Entrepreneur

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There's a campaign underway to remove President Andrew Jackson's face from the $20 bill and replace it with a woman as a way of "promoting gender equality." The group Women on 20s wants Jackson's portrait removed in time for the ...
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Project 21 Members Speak Out on Baltimore Riots

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Beginning on the night that the Baltimore riots started, members of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network have been in demand by a media trying to figure out why the looting and rioting there is being favorably compared ...
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Justin Danhof Explains Our Work at GE on the O’Reilly Factor

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For those who missed it, here's Justin Danhof's appearance on the O'Reilly Factor in which he describes asking General Electric's Jeff Immelt if he will release GE's written communications with the State Department relating to State helping GE with a ...
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Cynical Power Company Supports Regulations that Will Increase Its Profits, But Harm the American People

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Shareholder Activist Asks Exelon CEO How He Can Support Federal Regulations that Will Kill 500,000 Manufacturing Jobs and Half of All Jobs in the Coal Industry and Raise Energy Prices on American Families Chicago, IL / Washington, D.C. - Challenged ...
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Black Conservatives on Baltimore Looting, Violence: “Felons Don’t Need ‘Space to Destroy’”

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With the nation captivated by the rioting in Baltimore and the initial shocking pro-rioter statement of the city’s mayor, members of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network are speaking out about this civic crisis. Violence there was sparked ...
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Conservatives 3 – Liberals 0; Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer and Honeywell Investors Overwhelmingly Reject Left’s Call That They Stop Working with Conservative Organizations and Public Officials

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Liberal Attacks on American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Losing Steam Washington, D.C. - Three times in three business days, investors at three major corporations soundly voted to reject calls from the left that they stop working with conservative or free-market ...
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Boeing Refuses to Disclose Any Boeing-State Department-Clinton Foundation Email Correspondence

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Chairman Tells Shareholder He's "Comfortable" with Donations to Clinton Foundation That Could Put Boeing at Risk of Honest Services Fraud Charges Company Offers to Continue Discussion with Free-Market Think-Tank about Increased Transparency Despite Not Releasing E-Mails Chicago, IL / Washington, ...
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The Health Care You Get Will Depend on Your Political Clout–Specialty Drug Edition Redux

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Ben Boychuk of the Manhattan Institute is having trouble with ObamaCare.  Specifically, his son Benjamin needs injections of human growth hormone, a specialty drug.  According to Boychuk: My son Benjamin has a serious growth hormone deficiency. He’ll be 13 years old in ...
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