It’s graduation time, and that means controversy over college commencement speakers. On the right as well as the left, political protests led to the cancellations of speakers.  For example, Bush Administration secretary of state Condoleezza Rice bowed out of giving ...
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Interested in the global warming/climate change/climate disruption debate, even slightly? If so, I recommend this short, very readable and informative interview of Dr. Judith Curry, climatologist and chairman of Georgia Tech's School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, by Tony Thomas ...
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In the last few weeks I've had an op-ed in about three dozen newspapers across the country on the theme "top ten reasons why Congress should ignore advice to pass major legislation to combat climate change." It contains this paragraph: ...
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When it came out that the Dept. of Health and Human Services was, for at least the time being, discontinuing the monthly exchange enrollment reports, Cato’s Michael Cannon said “HHS Has Lost Their Minds.” There is a case to be ...
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At Thursday Shareholder Meeting, National Center for Public Policy Research Asked Amazon.com to Avoid Politics When Choosing Merchants and Outside Organizations with Which to Associate Request Comes in Light of News that Amazon.com Has Relied on Southern Poverty Law Center, ...
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About a week ago Elizabeth Price Foley wrote a very nice piece entitled “VA Scandals Raise The Specter Of Healthcare Rationing” at the Daily Caller.  However, this one paragraph caught my eye: Rationing care can take many forms. It can ...
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If Mexico had the same policies as the U.S., U.S. Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi wouldn't just have been released from prison, but given a path toward Mexican citizenship ...
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Free-Market Group Attended Groupon 2014 Shareholder Meeting to Ask Groupon to Treat All Legal Businesses Equally; Receives Emphatic Pledge from Groupon to Do So PETA Announced in April Plans to Ask Groupon at 2015 Shareholder Meeting to Ban Deals with ...
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A few weeks ago, I came across this blog post at KevinMD about one physician’s experience working in Sweden’s single-payer system: There was, in my view, a culture of giving less than you were able to, a lack of urgency, ...
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In late April I attended the Humana shareholder meeting and asked, in part, “if the situation arises where Humana qualifies for taxpayer money through the risk corridor*, can we get your promise that you will reject it?” Humana’s CEO, Bruce ...
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