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Health Care
John Graham on KION 1460 “Mark and Jim Show”
John R. Graham, Director of Health Studies, discusses President’s Obama’s health care plan and other health care issues on the “Mark and Jim Show,” KION 1460 AM in Salinas, CA.
Commentary
California Civil Rights Panel Appointed
WASHINGTON, June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has appointed 18 people to its California Advisory Committee. Martin Dannenfelser, staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, announced the appointment of Luis A. Alejo of Watsonville, James A. Bolton of Pasadena, Sharon L. Browne of Davis, ...
Commentary
Is Big Oil a crusader against greenhouse gases?
Over the past eight years, which industry has invested the most to mitigate the effects of greenhouse gases? You might be thinking of windmills or solar panels. Or maybe those folks who are trying to make energy out of pond scum … er, algae. But according to a new industry-funded ...
Commentary
Governor Schwarzenegger Creates the California Complete Count Committee
Sacramento, California – Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced the creation of the California Complete Count Committee (Committee) to ensure a complete count for the 2010 Census. “Every Californian counts,” Governor Schwarzenegger said. “The Census determines how the distribution of more than $300 billion in federal funds goes to local, state ...
Health Care
Obama Packs Green Bay with Health-Care Delusions
“The Corner” National Review, June 11, 2009 Speaking at a rally of the faithful in Green Bay, Wisc., President Obama proclaimed that his health reforms would bring the whole country up to the health-care standard of this high-quality, low-spending community. If it were 1959, instead of 2009, he’d have said ...
Commentary
Obama Lies About Health Care
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Obama is out in Green Bay today, and he’s doing a town hall meeting on socialized medicine, government health care. The reason he’s out there doing this is because the polling on this is not looking good. Conservatives for Patients’ Rights is a group that’s stopping Obama, ...
Health Care
Discussing myths about American health care.
Sally C. Pipes is interviewed on her book The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care and the possible government takeover of American health care on North Carolina’s Morning News with Scott Fitzgerald.
Commentary
Government is not your nanny—reject the federal soda tax.
In order to cover the exorbitant cost of President Obama’s universal health care program, the Senate Finance Committee has proposed, among other things, that the government levy additional taxes on alcohol, soda, and other sugar-sweetened beverage. The committee members and their supporters in the health community like the idea because ...
Business & Economics
The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Great Depression and the New Deal
Everything they say about the Great Depression and the New Deal is wrong. No economic myth these days is more pernicious than the myth that the free market caused the Great Depression and the New Deal got us out of it. That, as economist Robert P. Murphy points out is ...
Commentary
10 Questions State Legislators Should Ask About Higher Education
ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) is a small group of legislators, which more than 30 years ago, joined together with the common goal of creating a nonpartisan association for conservative state lawmakers with similar governmental beliefs. The core of their belief system was that “government closest to the people was ...
John Graham on KION 1460 “Mark and Jim Show”
John R. Graham, Director of Health Studies, discusses President’s Obama’s health care plan and other health care issues on the “Mark and Jim Show,” KION 1460 AM in Salinas, CA.
California Civil Rights Panel Appointed
WASHINGTON, June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has appointed 18 people to its California Advisory Committee. Martin Dannenfelser, staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, announced the appointment of Luis A. Alejo of Watsonville, James A. Bolton of Pasadena, Sharon L. Browne of Davis, ...
Is Big Oil a crusader against greenhouse gases?
Over the past eight years, which industry has invested the most to mitigate the effects of greenhouse gases? You might be thinking of windmills or solar panels. Or maybe those folks who are trying to make energy out of pond scum … er, algae. But according to a new industry-funded ...
Governor Schwarzenegger Creates the California Complete Count Committee
Sacramento, California – Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced the creation of the California Complete Count Committee (Committee) to ensure a complete count for the 2010 Census. “Every Californian counts,” Governor Schwarzenegger said. “The Census determines how the distribution of more than $300 billion in federal funds goes to local, state ...
Obama Packs Green Bay with Health-Care Delusions
“The Corner” National Review, June 11, 2009 Speaking at a rally of the faithful in Green Bay, Wisc., President Obama proclaimed that his health reforms would bring the whole country up to the health-care standard of this high-quality, low-spending community. If it were 1959, instead of 2009, he’d have said ...
Obama Lies About Health Care
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Obama is out in Green Bay today, and he’s doing a town hall meeting on socialized medicine, government health care. The reason he’s out there doing this is because the polling on this is not looking good. Conservatives for Patients’ Rights is a group that’s stopping Obama, ...
Discussing myths about American health care.
Sally C. Pipes is interviewed on her book The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care and the possible government takeover of American health care on North Carolina’s Morning News with Scott Fitzgerald.
Government is not your nanny—reject the federal soda tax.
In order to cover the exorbitant cost of President Obama’s universal health care program, the Senate Finance Committee has proposed, among other things, that the government levy additional taxes on alcohol, soda, and other sugar-sweetened beverage. The committee members and their supporters in the health community like the idea because ...
The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to the Great Depression and the New Deal
Everything they say about the Great Depression and the New Deal is wrong. No economic myth these days is more pernicious than the myth that the free market caused the Great Depression and the New Deal got us out of it. That, as economist Robert P. Murphy points out is ...
10 Questions State Legislators Should Ask About Higher Education
ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) is a small group of legislators, which more than 30 years ago, joined together with the common goal of creating a nonpartisan association for conservative state lawmakers with similar governmental beliefs. The core of their belief system was that “government closest to the people was ...
