FactCheck.org ran analysis of the Medicare prescription drug bill (the one that would permit Medicare to negotiate prices with the pharmaceutical industry) the other day that included some criticism of claims made by both parties. I asked the National Center���������s ...
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The Associated Press ran a story the other day claiming the U.S. once was bound by the Kyoto Treaty. Apparently, then-VP Al Gore signing the thing was all the AP needed to consider the treaty binding on the USA. Never ...
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Today's Examiner is carrying a review I wrote on former N.Y. Times reporter Chris Hedges' new book, "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America." "American Fascists" was released by Free Press on January 9. If so inclined, ...
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Rep. Mike Pence has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal saying three important things about Social Security: 1) The White House must take tax increases off the table.Says Pence: "Such a tax increase would likely lift or eliminate the ...
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A Project 21 press release critical of Senator Barbara Boxer for implying that Secretary of State Condoleeze Rice is less qualified to handle Iraq policy because she is childless brought this comment by email from a corrspondent in the Bronx: ...
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Despite attending -- no joke -- a "light bulb summit," Wal-Mart is in the dark about the nature of its adversaries, says Senior Fellow Tom Borelli. Tom says Wal-Mart should stop trying to appease its enemies and go on the ...
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Interesting. It seems one ethics-monitoring group, the Legal and Policy Center, thinks Rep. Alan Mollohan's recusal from matters relating to the FBI while he remains under FBI investigation is inadequate, while another thinks it is hunky-dory. Rep. Mollohan was chosen ...
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Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) is being criticized by members of the black leadership network Project 21 for implying that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice lacks a proper perspective on the War on Terror in Iraq because she does not have ...
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Washington, D.C. - Research used in a new report by the left-of-center group Families USA, apparently meant to bolster House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's effort to give government employees the power to "negotiate" drug prices under Medicare Part D, is being ...
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David Hogberg examines a study the left often cites as proof that increasing the federal minimum wage won't harm employment: House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, in a speechsupporting an increase in the minimum wage, claimed, According to one recent study ...
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