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  • How the California Dream Became a Nightmare

    Published March 25, 2015
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    Important attention has been drawn to the shameful condition of middle income housing affordability in California.

  • The Trouble with Google as Truthsayer

    Published March 25, 2015
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    Google, Inc., with its $385 billion share value, has bumped Exxon to become America’s No. 2 ranking company in market capitalization.That may not be a good thing.

  • Congressman’s Letter Attacking Climate Scientists Generates Heated Responses

    Published March 25, 2015
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    Rep. Raul Grijalva, ranking member of the U.S.

  • Battling Over the Doc Fix

    Published March 25, 2015
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    Consumer Power Report #456 Congress is currently trying to find a path forward on the notorious “doc fix,” whose scheduled expiration on March 31 would result in a 20 percent pay cut for doctors receiving reimbursement from Medicare.

  • Obamacare Failing, Doctors Will Take Future Blame

    Published March 25, 2015
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    The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report on March 9 projecting Obamacare premium prices to outpace both private insurance premiums and government spending between 2016 and 2018.

  • BBC Drops the Ball on Baseball & Smokeless Tobacco

    Published March 25, 2015
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    It’s almost baseball season, which means it’s time for anti-tobacco extremists to start grabbing easy headlines. One especially zealous state lawmaker wants to ban smokeless tobacco by players and fans in all California ballparks (here).

  • The Obvious Has Apparently Happened

    Published March 25, 2015
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    The Wall Street Journal reports today on a study showing that what pretty much everyone with any basic economic understanding predicted has come to pass, that the 30-hour 'full-time' employee definition in Obamacare has caused many firms to cap their

  • VA Scandal: Out of Sight, Out of Mind

    Published March 25, 2015
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    In the year since news broke of significant problems at the Veterans Administration health program, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki resigned and was replaced by former Procter & Gamble CEO Robert McDonald and Congress passed legislation giving veterans

  • Mackinac Center Gets FOIA Charges Reduced from $1,550 to $50

    Published March 25, 2015
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    In celebration of Sunshine Week (March 15-21), the Mackinac Center for Public Policy announces its victory in persuading the Michigan Liquor Control Commission to release public information at a more reasonable cost.

  • Sierra Club Representative Misleads in New Mexico Renewable Mandate Hearings

    Published March 24, 2015
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    The Sierra Club appears to be hiding its efforts to prevent the New Mexico legislature from freezing the state’s renewable energy mandate at 15 percent.

  • Legislation Limiting Certificate of Need Introduced in South Carolina

    Published March 24, 2015
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    South Carolina state Rep. Murrell Smith (R-Sumter) has introduced legislation to loosen the state’s certificate of need restrictions on the ability of health providers to build or open new health care facilities.

  • The FCC Delivers the Latest Dose of Obama Cronyism

    Published March 24, 2015
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    The huge-er government gets – the greater its ability to deliver cronyism goodies. The bigger the wallet government has – the larger the regulatory hammer it wields – the more Crony Socialism it can dispense.Remember when President Barack Obama said this?

  • Marketplace Fairness Act Violates Principles of Free Trade, Fairness

    Published March 24, 2015
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    In fall 2014, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) refused to allow a vote on the Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), a bill effectively forcing online businesses to collect and remit sales taxes to cities, counties, and states in which they are not

  • Heartland Institute Experts Comment on ‘Doc Fix’ Bill for Medicare

    Published March 24, 2015
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    Leaders in the House of Representatives on Tuesday introduced legislation to repeal the Sustainable Growth Rate formula for Medicare payments to doctors and replace it with a different formula.

  • VA A Preview of Single-Payer Politics

    Published March 24, 2015
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    It's been a while since I've heard single-payer advocates tout the VA as "proof" that government-run health care works.

  • Texas Lawmaker Proposes Statewide Ridesharing Legalization

    Published March 24, 2015
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    Responding to a crackdown on sharing-economy alternatives to taxicab company monopolies in San Antonio, a Texas lawmaker is proposing standardizing the state’s transportation regulations, in order to encourage competition and innovation in the state.

  • Kentucky Tobacco Ban Goes Up in Smoke

    Published March 24, 2015
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    A proposed statewide ban on smoking in private workplaces and public indoor spaces has been halted indefinitely, after the Kentucky Senate Veterans, Military Affairs and Public Protection Committee declined to accept the bill for consideration.

  • Don’t Dump Dumbo

    Published March 24, 2015
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    The animal rights groups claiming victory for elephant ban are only wasting time and money.For all the families who have yet to take their children to a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus — hurry.

  • Student Privacy Bill Delayed

    Published March 23, 2015
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    Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) and Rep. Luke Messer (R-IN) did not release a student privacy bill March 23 as expected.

  • FDA Approves First ‘Biosimilar’

    Published March 23, 2015
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    In a move that could lower prescription drug costs for some of the most expensive treatments on the market, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved for the first time a “biosimilar” for sale in the United States.

  • Cornyn Offers ESA Reform Bill

    Published March 23, 2015
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    Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) has introduced a bill to reform the listing procedure for the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and change the way settlements are reached when environmentalists sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to force a listing.

  • Secretive John Doe special prosecutor who fancies a good leak screams secrecy breach

    Published March 23, 2015
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    MADISON, Wis. — As the state Supreme Court prepares to hear oral arguments in a case involving Wisconsin’s politically charged John Doe investigation, the probe’s special prosecutor appears more desperate than ever to protect his all-but-dead Doe.

  • Philadelphia Mayor Proposes Property Tax Hike to Fund Schools

    Published March 23, 2015
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    To help close a $80 million funding deficit in the School District of Philadelphia’s budget , Mayor Michael Nutter (D) is proposing a 9.3 percent property tax hike on city homeowners. If enacted, taxes on homeowners would increase from 1.

  • Study Reveals the Seven States with ‘Failing’ Welfare Programs

    Published March 23, 2015
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    When the Republican-controlled Congress promoted welfare reform as one of its top priorities in 1995, opponents accused them of being unsympathetic to the plight of impoverished Americans and insisted the proposed policies would end up harming true

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