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Obamacare’s threat to medical breakthroughs

The battle against skin cancer just became a bit more complicated. Researchers found that Zelboraf – a promising new drug that attacks advanced-stage metastatic melanoma – may speed the development of a different but more easily treatable form of cancer. And then, there are the cost considerations. The drug lengthens ...
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Obama’s Education Takeover

President Obama has laid the groundwork for an unprecedented centralization of education policy under the guise of promoting educational innovation, accountability, and improved student achievement. In reality, Obama’s new national standards, curricula, and testing shift the policy-making power from individuals and communities to the federal bureaucracy. In this Broadside, Lance ...
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New Report Shows Federal System of Grants and Conditional Waivers Will Result in National K-12 Curriculum

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The Obama administration has placed the nation on the road to a national curriculum, according to a new report written by a former general counsel and former deputy general counsel of the United States Department of Education. The Road to a National Curriculum: The Legal Aspects ...
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Amicus Briefs Give A Supreme Condemnation Of ObamaCare

Statements both for and against President Barack Obama‘s signature health reform law are flooding the Supreme Court. Thus far, nearly 80 “amicus curiae” –or “friend of the court” — briefs have been filed. Many more will surely come in before the February 13 deadline These documents allow interest groups, lawmakers, ...
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Health care gurus: Idaho needs to return the exchange money and wait on the idea

A pair of health policy experts Thursday talked about state and federal health exchanges and they have a single message for Idaho lawmakers: Give the money back and wait. John Graham, health care studies director for the Pacific Research Institute, a California-based think tank, and Christie Herrera, with the American ...
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Health care expert Sally Pipes on what could replace Obamacare

“Repeal and replace” has been a conservative mantra ever since the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010. But while the process of getting rid of the law is somewhat straightforward, there’s been no consensus on what to actually replace it with. Enter Sally Pipes, the renowned health care expert ...
California

California hospitals’ unhealthy dependence on government

While many Americans are eager for the U.S. Supreme Court this year to decide the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, a federal judge in Los Angeles has just made a misguided decision that cuts right to the root of the government’s role in controlling people’s access to ...
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Pipes calls for Americans to repeal, replace ObamaCare

At the Jan. 26 launch party in Washington for her new book, The Pipes Plan, the president of the Pacific Research Institute called on Americans to reject and dismantle the president’s healthcare reform agenda before it is too late. When then-speaker Nancy Pelosi said Congress had to pass a 2,700-page ...
Business & Economics

Obama Defends Bailouts, Handouts and Cop-Outs

State of the Union addresses provide insight into the vision of America embraced by the president, and in that regard Tuesday’s address by President Barack Obama didn’t disappoint. He envisions a country where the federal government protects and creates union jobs and where the public sector is leading the charge ...
California

Local Governments Face Bankruptcy Quandary

Bankruptcy is the boogeyman haunting governments across America. It’s not a question of whether more cities will file for bankruptcy, but how many. The culprit is a decade of over-spending by governments, especially on pension guarantees, and an economic slowdown that refused to flip into a robust recovery. The money ...
Commentary

Obamacare’s threat to medical breakthroughs

The battle against skin cancer just became a bit more complicated. Researchers found that Zelboraf – a promising new drug that attacks advanced-stage metastatic melanoma – may speed the development of a different but more easily treatable form of cancer. And then, there are the cost considerations. The drug lengthens ...
Commentary

Obama’s Education Takeover

President Obama has laid the groundwork for an unprecedented centralization of education policy under the guise of promoting educational innovation, accountability, and improved student achievement. In reality, Obama’s new national standards, curricula, and testing shift the policy-making power from individuals and communities to the federal bureaucracy. In this Broadside, Lance ...
Commentary

New Report Shows Federal System of Grants and Conditional Waivers Will Result in National K-12 Curriculum

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The Obama administration has placed the nation on the road to a national curriculum, according to a new report written by a former general counsel and former deputy general counsel of the United States Department of Education. The Road to a National Curriculum: The Legal Aspects ...
Commentary

Amicus Briefs Give A Supreme Condemnation Of ObamaCare

Statements both for and against President Barack Obama‘s signature health reform law are flooding the Supreme Court. Thus far, nearly 80 “amicus curiae” –or “friend of the court” — briefs have been filed. Many more will surely come in before the February 13 deadline These documents allow interest groups, lawmakers, ...
Commentary

Health care gurus: Idaho needs to return the exchange money and wait on the idea

A pair of health policy experts Thursday talked about state and federal health exchanges and they have a single message for Idaho lawmakers: Give the money back and wait. John Graham, health care studies director for the Pacific Research Institute, a California-based think tank, and Christie Herrera, with the American ...
Commentary

Health care expert Sally Pipes on what could replace Obamacare

“Repeal and replace” has been a conservative mantra ever since the Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010. But while the process of getting rid of the law is somewhat straightforward, there’s been no consensus on what to actually replace it with. Enter Sally Pipes, the renowned health care expert ...
California

California hospitals’ unhealthy dependence on government

While many Americans are eager for the U.S. Supreme Court this year to decide the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, a federal judge in Los Angeles has just made a misguided decision that cuts right to the root of the government’s role in controlling people’s access to ...
Commentary

Pipes calls for Americans to repeal, replace ObamaCare

At the Jan. 26 launch party in Washington for her new book, The Pipes Plan, the president of the Pacific Research Institute called on Americans to reject and dismantle the president’s healthcare reform agenda before it is too late. When then-speaker Nancy Pelosi said Congress had to pass a 2,700-page ...
Business & Economics

Obama Defends Bailouts, Handouts and Cop-Outs

State of the Union addresses provide insight into the vision of America embraced by the president, and in that regard Tuesday’s address by President Barack Obama didn’t disappoint. He envisions a country where the federal government protects and creates union jobs and where the public sector is leading the charge ...
California

Local Governments Face Bankruptcy Quandary

Bankruptcy is the boogeyman haunting governments across America. It’s not a question of whether more cities will file for bankruptcy, but how many. The culprit is a decade of over-spending by governments, especially on pension guarantees, and an economic slowdown that refused to flip into a robust recovery. The money ...
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