It is too late to blame obesity on global warming? New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will be infamously remembered for his efforts to impose many nanny-state policies on those he governed, such as his successful ban on trans fats ...
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All the Smithsonian Museums are closed due to the government shutdown... What a fraud. We should call on everyone to stop donating to the Smithsonian. Yes, it gets a substantial amount of funding from the federal government. But it also ...
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Yesterday this twitter exchange occurred between the Washington Examiner’s Phil Klein and New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait: Is the difficulty logging in due to loads of people who want insurance?  Megan McArdle has some doubts. For the sake of argument, ...
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Well, after numerous attempts I finally managed to create an account at the Federal Exchange.  I finally answered all of the security questions, it said my account was finished, and so I hit the “continue” button.  YAY!!!!….uh-oh: Sigh.  So, I ...
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How did radical Islam become a legitimate threat in sub-Saharan Africa? Should we care? Perhaps, because one possible reason stretches beyond the African continent. It may eminate from our own houses of worship. After the recent shopping mall attack in ...
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As ObamaCare clears a major hurdle in its implementation and begins enrolling individuals into the new entitlement, it's interesting to see how much has been delayed, dropped or hastily fixed (or has remained broken, in the case of some insurance ...
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Dear Mr. President: With all due respect, your economic stewardship has been a nightmare. Whether our nation's lingering peril comes from your misunderstanding of basic economic principles, your rigid and religious-like devotion to political progressivism or because the economy simply ...
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Slavery didn't suddenly begin with Europeans carting Africans en masse to the Americas. Slavery has a long and evil history that has touched almost the entire planet at one point or another. Depending on how one looks at it, the ...
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As the dreaded government shutdown continues and America somehow manages to make it without the assistance of non-essential federal employees, a crisis to end all crises is looming. In just under two weeks, the U.S. Treasury will supposedly run out ...
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"The exchanges will result in a death spiral. They'll attract the older and sicker while discouraging the younger and healthier, resulting in constantly rising insurance prices," says Dr. David Hogberg Glitches in the Exchanges' Websites Will Only Exacerbate the Death ...
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