Concerned that the increasingly shrill warnings by environmentalists on the dangers of global warming are beginning to undermine the credibility of everyone calling for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, some scientists are calling for them to... um... cool it. One ...
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President Barack Obama is often likened - and clearly sees himself as spiritual successor - to presidential luminaries like Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt. But he is fast on track to following the footsteps of a less celebrated predecessor - ...
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Summary: The British National Health Service refused to provide the advanced cancer drug Avastin to Colette Mills, who was willing to pay for it herself. Mills was told that if she paid for the drug the NHS didn't cover because ...
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Summary: Instead of whisking a 69-year-old Japanese bicyclist who collided with a motorcycle to the emergency room, paramedics called 14 hospitals trying to find a facility that at last accepted the critically-injured man. The hospital at which he was taken ...
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"Long waits and shortages result from government control of the health sector. There are only so many hospitals, only so many doctors. When government promises that everyone will be treated (ostensibly) gratis, it does not simultaneously conjure more doctors into ...
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Senate Democrats are considering yet another global warming bill, optimistic that ­– despite the current economic malaise – a better sales pitch will increase support for their restrictive energy proposals.  The legislation's sponsors, Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Barbara Boxer ...
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By David Almasi: Project 21 member and National Center board member Horace Cooper has been scheduled to discuss how the dynamic of race relations is changed by Barack Obama’s election to the presidency on C-Span's "Washington Journal" program Friday morning.You ...
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Washington, DC - Today's page one New York Times story on Al Gore profiting from global warming advocacy illustrates how taxpayer money is being used to reward businesses that support Obama's energy agenda, says Tom Borelli Ph.D., director of the ...
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Max Pappas of FreedomWorks sent over some pictures of today's rally at the Capitol in opposition to liberal efforts to have the federal government take over our health care system. I'm posting the pictures because this is a tremendous turnout ...
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Gallup says: "40 percent of Americans describe themselves as politically conservative, 36 percent moderate and 20 percent liberal." E-mail comments to [email protected] | Subscribe to feed. | Follow the National Center for Public Policy Research on Twitter. | Download Shattered ...
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