An observation from Project 21 member Darryn "Dutch" Martin on how appearances can be deceiving: On a recent edition of The O'Reilly Factor dealing with Rush Limbaugh's stint in rehab for painkiller addiction -- and whether -the view of him ...
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Alien Tort Claims Act Used Against Poor Africans America's 34-million African-Americans should be outraged by the campaign of economic blackmail that a handful of profit-driven personal injury lawyers are waging against the financially beleaguered Republic of South Africa. Against the ...
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Alien Tort Claims Act Used Against Poor Africans America's 34-million African-Americans should be outraged by the campaign of economic blackmail that a handful of profit-driven personal injury lawyers are waging against the financially beleaguered Republic of South Africa. Against the ...
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BACKGROUND: The U. S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote Nov. 18 on the "National Aviation Heritage Act," H.R. 280. Sponsored by Rep. David Hobson (R-OH), the bill would create a National Aviation Heritage Area encompassing several counties in ...
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Ed Haislmaier recommended this informative short piece posted online today by the Democratic Leadership Council. The piece calls the House-Senate compromise "a lost opportunity to modernize Medicare," saying Congress "should have designed a workable prescription drug benefit and introduced key ...
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This piece by Chris Edwards and Tad Dehaven at the Cato Institute provides further support for the notion that we need to reform Medicare -- really reform it -- and the sooner the better ...
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An observation from our executive director, David Almasi: Who said congressional delegations are just vacations? It seems one CODEL really made a big difference, for now. In a surprising policy reversal, Congressman Sheila Jackson-Lee, a hardened Bush critic, decided American ...
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Ed Haislmaier writes in this new National Policy Analysis #498 paper, Medicare: It's About the Future, Stupid! that Medicare's current structure has a lot more problems than just the one we keep hearing about (the little matter of what in ...
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More on the story of Congressman Jim Moran from NCPPR executive director David W. Almasi: And then there was one. Yet another of Congressman Jim Moran's announced primary opponents has dropped out of the race. Former Fairfax County Board Chairman ...
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Another observation from NCPPR executive director David Almasi: The liberal obstructionists in the Senate recently changed their battle cry from one of a crusade to stop the ‘right wing’ from packing the courts to a defensive "we're only filibustering four." ...
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