About two weeks ago I criticized the Hatch-Coburn-Burr health care plan for the way it treated the tax exclusion for employer-based health insurance: The Hatch-Burr-Coburn…“caps the tax exclusion for employee’s health coverage at 65 percent of an average plan’s costs” (italics ...
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It’s getting to be a sad joke.  Any provision of ObamaCare that the Administration finds politically inconvenient is suspended regardless of whether the president has the authority to do so.  The latest is the decision to suspend the employer mandate in 2015 ...
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For a decade now, believers in CAGW, that is, the theory of catastrophic anthroprogenic global warming, have repeatedly made the absurd claim that 97% of all climate scientists believe human beings are causing the Earth's temperature to dangerously rise. They ...
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Reason: It's Also Used in Yoga Mats Washington, DC - The following is the response of Jeff Stier, director of the National Center's Risk Analysis Division, to the call of Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) for a ban on azodicarbonamide after ...
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Several members of the National Center’s Project 21 black leadership network spoke out against “Black History Month” negativity that is so prevalent in modern observances in a recent article published by the Press of Atlantic City. Project 21 member Jimmie ...
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It seems the inspector general is a Republican. Not long after the Obama Administration's Department of Justice appointed an Obama bundler to investigate the are-conservatives-being-targeted-by-the-IRS? scandal, two influential Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are complaining that ...
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With William Barber and the North Carolina NAACP, it’s do as I say and not as I do.  At the “Moral March on Raleigh” last Saturday, invitees to the event — called in part to protest the recently-instituted voting protections ...
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Can we trust President Obama to investigate the IRS -- especially when he says no wrongdoing has occurred there under his watch? David Ridenour, president of the National Center for Public Policy Research, says NO on WQSC-Charleston's Rocky D Show ...
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Do Americans have a free speech right to flash their headlights to warn other motorists of a speed trap? Is the Obama Administration attacking the heart of the American work ethic? Should an American dip the U.S. flag in respect ...
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Despite the official unemployment rate going down against slightly in January, there is absolutely nothing to celebrate.  A year into President Obama’s second term, the numbers behind the official figure shouldn’t excite anyone. January jobless numbers from the federal Bureau ...
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