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  • Radical Environmentalism’s Death Campaigns

    Published March 23, 2015
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    The terms racism, white supremacy, crimes against humanity are bandied about so often that they have become almost meaningless.

  • Bipartisan Reform Proposed for Veterans Health Care

    Published March 23, 2015
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    Concerned Veterans for America (CVA), a national advocacy group for veterans, released a proposal to improve health care for former service members at an event featuring a bipartisan group of elected officials and other health care experts.

  • The Question of Evolution

    Published March 23, 2015
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    One of the potential contenders for the Republican nomination for President, Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin, was surprise-asked the evolution question. The liberal media recurrently seeks to entertain itself with such "gotcha" questions.

  • Logan Pike and Justin Haskins: R.I. welfare system gets an ‘F’

    Published March 23, 2015
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    By Logan Pike and Justin Haskins Everyone knows newly elected Gov. Gina Raimondo, a Democrat, has her hands full in Rhode Island.

  • PARCC and Common Core Undergo Scrutiny in Wealthy Lake County School District

    Published March 23, 2015
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    Thousands of parents across the country and here in Illinois are concerned about Common Core standards, PARCC testing on those standards, and the accumulation and storage of their children’s personal data.

  • A World Without the Welfare State

    Published March 23, 2015
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    We live in an era in which few can even conceive of a world without the welfare state. Who would care for the old? How would people provide for their medical needs? What would happen to the disadvantaged and needy that fell upon hard times?

  • Rhode Island Considers Insurance Tax to Fund Exchange

    Published March 21, 2015
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    Faced with the need to find state money to fund Rhode Island’s health insurance exchange established under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Gov. Gina Raimondo (D) is proposing a tax on all health insurance premiums in the individual and small-group markets.

  • Idaho will keep minimum hours mandate for auto dealers

    Published March 20, 2015
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    Small-time auto dealers will need to keep their doors open at least 20 hours each week after a Senate panel killed legislation to repeal the mandate. The legislation, sponsored by Rep.

  • Iowa/Nebraska CO-OP Insolvency Costs Taxpayers $225 Million

    Published March 20, 2015
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    After burning through $145.

  • Flawed Studies used to Push Low-Carbon Fuel Standards

    Published March 20, 2015
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    Jim Erickson of the Michigan News reports new research shows almost every study cited to promote biofuels as climate-friendly alternatives to fossil fuels are flawed and need to be redone.

  • Royal Society Climate Science Report Royally in Error

    Published March 20, 2015
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    Legacy Climate Change Weekly -
    Climate Change Weekly #164 The Royal Society – the first and arguably still one of the most prestigious scientific organizations in the world – just got egg on its face with its release of “A Short Guide to Climate Science.

  • Why I am a Climate Change Skeptic

    Published March 20, 2015
    By Patrick Moore
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    [Editor’s Note: Patrick Moore, Ph.D., has been a leader in international environmentalism for more than 40 years. He cofounded Greenpeace and currently serves as chair of Allow Golden Rice.

  • Oregon’s Obamacare Is A Crony Socialist Nightmare, Just Like Washington’s

    Published March 20, 2015
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    Obamacare is an unmitigated, omni-directional disaster.It’s a disaster as a health care plan. How’s it doing with premiums?Obamacare Premiums Will Increase Faster Than Private PlansHow about deductibles? Co-pays? Medical choices?

  • VA Whistleblower’s Tale

    Published March 19, 2015
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    Tori Richards at Watchdog.org has been doing some terrific investigative reporting on the VA scandal, and I highly recommend her latest piece describing the whistleblower in a Louisiana VA facility that brought this chapter of the scandal to light.

  • Obama Budget Would Spend Billions on Climate, Renewables

    Published March 19, 2015
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    Reaffirming his commitment to force America’s energy sector away from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources through the exercise of regulatory power and spending priorities, President Obama has proposed substantial funding increases for the White

  • States Should Defy Unlawful EPA Carbon Dioxide Rules

    Published March 19, 2015
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    Last June, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed its Clean Power Plan as a nationwide regulation to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from electrical power plants.

  • Arizona House Votes to Repeal and Replace Common Core

    Published March 19, 2015
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    A bill that would repeal Arizona’s adoption of the Common Core curriculum and replace it with a state-developed plan has passed in the House and is now under consideration by the Senate.

  • Do E-Cigarette Ads Promote Vaping?

    Published March 19, 2015
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    The National Cancer Institute is wasting taxpayer dollars on slanted e-cigarette research that didn’t ask or answer an obvious and important question.Consider the recent NCI-funded study by Drs.

  • Several Members of Massachusetts Exchange Board Removed

    Published March 19, 2015
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    Newly elected Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker (R) has asked the four board members of the Massachusetts Health Connector appointed by his predecessor, former Gov. Deval Patrick (D), to resign.

  • Number of Black Families Homeschooling More Than Doubled in Four Years

    Published March 19, 2015
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    A growing number of black families are choosing to homeschool their children, the U.S. Department of Education reports.

  • Heartland Institute Issues 2015 Welfare Reform Report Card

    Published March 19, 2015
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    Massachusetts, Missouri among seven states that earned ‘F’ grades; South Dakota finishes 1st, Wisconsin 5th on welfare reform policies CHICAGO (March 19) – Seven states earned an “F” for their welfare reform policies on the 2015 Welfare Reform Report

  • INTERVIEW: Greenpeace Founder Makes Case for Climate Skepticism, Biotech Foods

    Published March 19, 2015
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    Patrick Moore, chair and spokesman for Allow Golden Rice, discusses why he founded and ultimately left Greenpeace and how environmentalists are betraying the planet they claim to care about. Environment & Climate News Managing Editor H.

  • President Proposes Charging Ranchers More for Grazing

    Published March 18, 2015
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    Moving more money from private hands to the government, the Obama administration is proposing budget increases for the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management for fiscal year 2016 and has increased grazing fees for 2015.

  • Why Republicans Need to Repeal Obamacare One More Time

    Published March 18, 2015
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    Consumer Power Report #455 On Capitol Hill yesterday, House Republicans released their latest budget, which includes reforms to Medicare and Medicaid as well as the repeal of Obamacare: The plan envisions a remaking of the federal government.

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