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  • Shutdown Hysterics And Debt Drama Queens: What Happens Next?

    Published October 23, 2013
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    After all the dire predictions of doom and gloom, all the hysterics and drama queens, the end result of the great government shutdown/debt limit battle was no real substantive change, except for one, big, fat, new, debt loophole for the power mad
  • Obamacare (As Seen On TV)

    Published October 22, 2013
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    Well, that was embarrassing.On Tuesday morning, the President of the United States became a salesman, hawking Obamacare in an “As Seen On TV” performance that would have Billy Mays cringing.
  • Mann Attacks Fellow Warmist for Questioning Hockey Stick

    Published October 22, 2013
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    Prominent global warming alarmist Michael Mann venomously attacked fellow warmist Rob Wilson after Wilson pointed out flaws in Mann’s “hockey stick” reconstruction of historic temperatures.
  • USA Today Serves Fruits and Nuts on Global Warming

    Published October 22, 2013
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    On October 10, USA Today did its readers a grave disservice by running an op-ed full of smears and false statements by two of the fruitier nutcakes of the environmental movement, Dan Becker and James Gerstenzang.They disparage Dr. Fred Singer and Dr.
  • Goodbye OPEC, Hello Independence

    Published October 22, 2013
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    October 17 was the fortieth anniversary of the oil embargo slapped on America by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
  • Universal Health Insurance Lie

    Published October 22, 2013
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    There are many things that might have been done to reform healthcare in the United States after Barack Obama was elected.
  • Polar Sea Ice Remains Above Long-Term Average

    Published October 22, 2013
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    Polar sea ice extent remains above the long-term average, NASA/NOAA satellite instruments report. Fueled by record Antarctic sea ice extent, polar sea ice this month continues a year-long trend of primarily above-average extent.
  • The ObamaCare Website: The World Outruns the Government – By a Decade

    Published October 22, 2013
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    We recently found out that the incredibly effective ObamaCare exchange website is - well, not exactly state-of-the-art.
  • A Surge of the Best and Brightest to Save Obamacare

    Published October 22, 2013
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    Consumer Power Report #393President Obama and the White House are swinging into campaign mode on his health care law today, with a Rose Garden event following multiple defensive Sunday appearances, announcements of changes to Obamacare’s homepage, and an
  • Predicting America’s Future

    Published October 22, 2013
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    One of the great parlor games of pundits, politicians, journalists, and just about everyone else is predicting the future.
  • Maryland School Officials Will Police What Kids Say on Facebook

    Published October 22, 2013
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    In May 2013, Maryland lawmakers passed a cyberbullying law, making it a misdemeanor to use a computer to “inflict serious emotional distress on a minor.
  • Report: Rural Virginia Hospitals Won’t Qualify if Required to Re-Enroll in Medicare

    Published October 22, 2013
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    Nearly two-thirds of rural hospitals in the United States would fail to meet location requirements if required to re-enroll in Medicare, an inspector general’s report from the Department of Health and Human Services has found.
  • The Modern FCC Competition-Policy Linchpin

    Published October 22, 2013
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    When will the FCC acknowledge the obvious?Every day many tens of millions of Americans competitively substitute wireless for wired communications and wired for wireless.
  • Nashville Must Pay Millions More for Convention Center Land

    Published October 21, 2013
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    The City of Nashville must make up for the $15 million in fair market value a private real estate development company says it lost when city officials used eminent domain laws to take the firm’s land to build the Music City Convention Center.
  • Singularities

    Published October 21, 2013
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    In astrophysics, there is a concept called a “singularity.” Most often discussed in terms of the Big Bang or black holes, a singularity is, among other things, a point in spacetime from which no prior matter or information can escape.
  • The Age of Climate Alarmism is Coming to an End

    Published October 21, 2013
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    You can be forgiven for not noticing that the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a summary of its Fifth Assessment Report late last month.
  • Three Common Core Executive Orders Change Little

    Published October 21, 2013
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    The governors of Iowa, Maine, and Arizona recently issued executive orders on Common Core national education standards, but to little effect. On October 16, Iowa Gov.
  • Thorner: Lake Forest Parents Would be Wise to Hear Both Sides on Common Core

    Published October 21, 2013
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    With all that is happening currently in Washington, D.C.
  • If Someone Really Wanted to Harm Obamacare…

    Published October 20, 2013
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    Now I’m not suggesting that anyone go out and do this, but if someone really wanted to hurt ObamaCare, he (or she) would hack into healthcare.
  • Fukushima and the Misunderstood Effects of Radiation

    Published October 20, 2013
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    More than two years have passed since a major earthquake and devastating tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and still not a single case of radiation illness or death has occurred as a result.
  • Expanding Our Understanding of Climate Change

    Published October 19, 2013
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    In a short book titled What We Know About Climate Change, Massachusetts Institute of Technology meteorologist Kerry Emanuel explains why he believes humans are causing a global warming crisis.
  • Global Warming Alarmism Denies Sound Science

    Published October 18, 2013
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    Sound science dealt several devastating blows to global warming alarmism during the past few weeks, despite the best efforts of global-warming activists to sustain the drumbeat of climate fear.
  • National Tests Undermine Three Years of Accountability

    Published October 18, 2013
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    The U.S. Department of Education says states can drop their own tests in favor of piloting national Common Core tests in spring 2014 after a tussle with California over a new law enacting the same policy.
  • Wisconsin Okays Property Tax Relief Measure

    Published October 18, 2013
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    Assembly Democrats in Wisconsin were feeling rejected—again—after Republicans dismissed their version of property tax relief, just before the GOP’s $100-million property tax cut plan passed in the Assembly with bipartisan support.

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