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Afghanistan: Do We Stay or Do We Go Now?

By Malou InnocentIn the last three years, the United States has tripled the number of troops in Afghanistan, increased the number of drone strikes in neighboring Pakistan, and killed Osama bin...

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Why Celebrities Like Katy Perry Don’t Want People to Make Eye Contact

A few weekends ago, I was intrigued to see this story in the New York Post: “The ultimate star perk is forbidding eye contact.” According to the Smoking Gun, singer Katy Perry’s contract covering her...

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More Employers Are Dropping Healthcare Insurance Coverage

McKinsey Quarterly has reported its survey concluding there will be a radical restructuring of employer-sponsored health benefits (ESI) as a result of President Obama’s following the 2010 passage of...

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Obama Backtracks on Marijuana Policy

By Tim LynchPresident Obama is backing away from his campaign pledge to not interfere with the states that choose to adopt medical marijuana reforms.  Here’s an excerpt from the NORML blog on the new...

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President Reverses Military Suicide Condolence Letter Policy

Family members of military service personnel who take their own lives while deployed will get condolence letters from the president, according to a statement from President Obama, reversing a...

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I’m Willing to Go Along with President Obama’s ‘Balanced Approach’ to...

By Daniel J. MitchellThe President has issued an ultimatum that more tax revenue must be part of budget negotiations. Indeed, he endlessly repeats his desire for a “balanced approach,” implying...

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I Hope I’m Wrong, But Here’s Why Republicans Will Lose the Debt-Limit Fight

By Daniel J. MitchellThere are three reasons why I’m not very hopeful about the outcome of the debt-limit battle. 1. There is no unity in the GOP camp. Republicans have been all over the map during...

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Pharmalot… Pharmalittle… The Weekend Nears

And so another working week is about to draw to a close. This is, of course, our signal to daydream about weekend plans. Our agenda includes another installment in the ‘Let’s-See-Them-Before-They-Die‘...

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Day By Day July 15, 2011 – Real Estate

Day By Day by Chris Muir The whole idea of the President of the United States having to walk out of a debt ceiling meeting leaves everyone suspecting that their judgment of Obama is correct. He is an...

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Trimming Medicare to save the economy: Social media reactions

President Barack Obama seems desperate for a compromise with Republicans over the debt ceiling. In a press conference on Monday, he once again agreed to consider cuts in Social Security and Medicare....

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Day By Day July 17, 2011 – No is Yes

Day By Day by Chris Muir I actually think President Obama was winning the narrative on the debt-ceiling flap last week until the facts and his walk-out stepped into the way. American voters are now...

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What Can History Tell Us About Healthcare In America?

Millions of our citizens do not now have a full measure of opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health. Millions do not now have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness. The...

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The Gang of Six Is Back from the Dead: Contemplating the Good, the Bad, and...

The on-again, off-again “Gang of Six” has come back on the scene and is offering a “Bipartisan Plan to Reduce Our Nation’s Deficits.” The proposal is quite similar to the one put forth by the...

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Parallels to 1995 in Spending Fight

The American welfare state has been in crisis for decades. Many of the problems faced in 1995 fight have become less tractable problems today. John Samples comments in yesterday’s Cato Daily Podcast....

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Why Doctors Should Participate In The Debt Ceiling Debate

Joe Scarborough reminds us that the divisions in American government are hardly new, paraphrasing Benjamin Franklin’s observation that “When you assemble a number of men, to have the advantage of...

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Day By Day July 23, 2011 – PDAs

Day by Day by Chris Muir President Obama is saving the REAL IRS drones for the enforcement of ObamaCare. If Obama does not get serious with GOP Congressional leaders soon, he will need more than the...

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Flap’s Links and Comments for July 23rd on 18:59

These are my links for July 23rd from 18:59 to 19:25: How the White House killed the deal – In an aggressive move, the House speaker’s office has put out a blow-by-blow on how the debt talks collapsed:...

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Thoughts on the Boehner Plan

By Tad DeHavenThese are the times that try budget analysts’ souls—especially budget analysts who’d like to see Washington dramatically cut spending. The debate over lifting the debt ceiling has...

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Day By Day July 27, 2011 – The View

Day By Day by Chris Muir Chris, the best approach is probably to swallow hard, bend over and accept the Boehner Plan. It certainly is NOT perfect, but the GOP and people have won and should now...

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Flap’s Links and Comments for July 27th on 13:51

These are my links for July 27th from 13:51 to 13:59: Carney makes an accusation – The Obama administration has never been backward about leaning forward on Fox News. The network has proven a durable,...

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Republicans Employ Education Weapons, Too

By Neal McCluskeyA couple of days ago I blasted President Obama for, in repugnant tradition, using “education” as a political weapon, invoking it to scare Americans into demanding increased taxes...

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John McCain: Ever Confused, Always for War

By Doug BandowSen. John McCain has exhibited personal courage, but his geopolitical judgment is uniformly awful.  Over the last 30 years there has been no war or potential war that he has opposed.Â...

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It’s Official: Insurers Will Cover Birth Control With No Co-Pays

A few weeks back, the Institute of Medicine recommended that contraception and seven other women’s preventive health services be covered by insurers with no out-of-pocket costs. Today the U.S....

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Debt Deal Signed, Fights over Military Spending Next

By Benjamin H. FriedmanThe legislation signed by President Obama yesterday, as a solution to the debt ceiling debate, includes the possibility of cuts to military spending. But as Chris Preble points...

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Flap’s Links and Comments for August 2nd through August 4th

These are my links for August 2nd through August 4th: Sarah Palin Hacker Moves to Halfway House – The man convicted of hacking Sarah Palin's e-mail account was released from federal prison and is now...

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Day By Day August 5, 2011 – Over the Bus

Day By Day by Chris Muir I guess President Obama liked Sarah Palin’s idea of the bus tour. But, with the high unemployment and American voter’s angst about the economy – what could go wrong? The Obama...

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Obama’s Failed Response to the Downgrade and the Outlook for Fixing...

By Daniel J. MitchellPresident Obama just spoke about the downgrade and his remarks were very disappointing. He uttered some empty platitudes, offered no plan, (amazingly) called for more government...

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Appeals Court Rules Against Health-Care Overhaul Law

Two U.S. appeals courts are now at loggerheads over the constitutionality of the health-care overhaul law. As the WSJ reports, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta ruled 2-1 that...

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Iraq Violence Not an Excuse for US Troops to Stay

By Christopher PrebleA wave of violence spread across Iraq today with 70 dead and some 300 injured. Iraqi security forces are blaming al Qaida affiliates, but no group has officially claimed...

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President 2012 Poll Watch: Obama’s Weekly Job Approval at the Lowest of His...

According to the latest Gallup Poll. President Obama’s job approval rating dropped to 40% during the week spanning Aug. 8-14, the lowest weekly average of his administration. During this period,...

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President 2012: Obama Offers Up His Excuses on Why the American Economy Sucks

President Barack Obama speaks during a town hall meeting, Monday, Aug. 15, 2011, at the Seed Savers Exchange in Decorah, Iowa, during his three-day economic bus tour Unbelievable – I mean really. At a...

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No Hope or Change When it Comes to Fannie Mae

By Mark A. CalabriaThe Washington Post is reporting that President Obama has assigned his staff with the task of designing a new set of government guarantees behind the U.S. mortgage market. Although...

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President’s Fealty to Antidumping Lobby Kills Jobs and Depresses Growth

By Daniel IkensonRhetorically, President Obama is a champion of industry—as long as it’s green. To put our money where his mouth is, the president has already devoted over $100 billion in direct...

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Your Tax Dollars at Work

By David BoazPresident Obama says that we are a  ”generous and compassionate” country and that “through government, we should do together what we cannot do as well for ourselves.” And to fulfill that...

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U.S. Must Resist Military Role in Post-Qaddafi Libya

By Ted Galen CarpenterAfter weeks of very little movement either militarily or diplomatically in Libya, there are apparent developments on both fronts in recent days. Rebel forces, aided by NATO’s...

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Flap’s Links and Comments for August 18th on 09:02

These are my links for August 18th from 09:02 to 14:06: Los Angeles to quit hiring Standard & Poor’s to rate investments – Los Angeles, which recently saw its $7-billion investment portfolio...

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President 2012: Obama Fan Sending Flap GOP Obama Getaway Postcards

Guess some folks are sensitive about the President going up to Martha Vineyard on vacation and being called on it. So, they sent me about ten of these post cards with different messages. OK and the...

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New NIH Conflict-of-Interest Rules: Better Than the Old Rules?

There are new rules for financial-conflict-of-interest disclosure for scientific researchers who get grants from the National Institutes of Health. While the “vast majority of academic...

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Is Obama Really Going to Propose Another Keynesian Stimulus?

By Daniel J. MitchellJust last week, I made fun of Paul Krugman after he publicly said that a fake threat from invading aliens would be good for the economy since the earth would waste a bunch of money...

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An Amazing Indictment of Obamanomics: Banks That Don’t Want Deposits

By Daniel J. MitchellI’ve commented on the failure of Obamanomics, with special focus on how both banks and corporations are sitting on money because the investment climate is so grim. Not exactly...

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Nat Hentoff on Perry, Obama

By Tim LynchThere has been increasing attention this week on Texas governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry, as well as his book Fed Up! and his record in Texas.  With respect to...

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Obama Supports VAT Sympathizer for Top Job at Council of Economic Advisers

By Daniel J. MitchellThe White House has announced that it is nominating Alan Krueger, a professor at Princeton, to be the new Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. In a Freudian copy-editing...

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Flap’s Links and Comments for August 29th on 08:31

These are my links for August 29th from 08:31 to 08:55: Workplace Notice Poster for Worker’s Rights – WORKPLACE NOTICE Worker Rights The National Labor Relations Board May Not Tell You About For...

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A.M. Vitals: Pfizer Takes New Tack With More Targeted Drugs

“Niche Blockbusters”: Pfizer’s newly approved lung-cancer therapy crizotinib, to be sold under the brand name Xalkori, represents a relatively new tack for the pharma giant: a drug aimed...

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Panel: Set Up a Compensation System for Research-Related Injuries

Treponema pallidum, the bacterium that causes syphilis. Last fall the heads of the CDC and NIH called freshly unearthed 1940s-era experiments that intentionally infected Guatemalan prisoners, military...

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Obama Jobs Plan to Push More K-12 Bloat?

By Andrew J. CoulsonIn a recent interview, President Obama hints at the core of his much-anticipated jobs plan: PRESIDENT OBAMA: what we do have, I think, is the capacity to do some things right now...

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Flap’s Links and Comments for September 1st on 06:18

These are my links for September 1st from 06:18 to 16:02: SC Gov. Nikki Haley Calls on Obama to Disband the NLRB; Calls Obama ‘Cowardly’ – South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley blasted President Obama and...

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U.S. President Barack Obama Proclaims September 2011 As National Ovarian...

Today, U.S. President Barack Obama designated September 2010 as National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. During National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, Libby’s H*O*P*E*™ will honor the women who...

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President 2012: Solar Plant Bankruptcy Now an Anti-Obama Campaign Ad

President Obama visited the solar company Solyndra on May 26, 2010 to tout his $535 million loan guarantee. On August 31, 2011, Solyndra announced it was filing for bankruptcy and laying off 1,100...

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Why More Money Hasn’t, and Won’t, Fix the Nation’s Public School Buildings

By Andrew J. CoulsonAdam Schaeffer has just blogged about the massive increase in public school facilities spending of the past two decades, and about President Obama’s likely call to throw even more...

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